Notes for Robert Leicester WAGNER

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Notes for Robert Leicester WAGNER

Robert Leicester Wagner was a teacher, movie director, and magazine
editor.

Source: Carol Wagner Mills.

Robert Leicester Wagner was born on August 2, 1872 in Detroit, Michigan;
attended the UNiversity of Michigan; and studied art at the Academie
Julian (1903) in Paris, France. He became an illustrator for the Detroit
Free Press (Detroit), Criterion (New York), and the Encyclopedia
Britannica (London). He also painted portraits and wrote for the
Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, and other magazines. He moved to
Southern California where he directed films for Paramount and the Hal
Roach Studios. He made six films with Will Rogers, published Rob
Wagner's Script beginning in 1929, published books including "Film Folk"
(1918), and "Tessie Moves Along) (c. 1929). His papers are housed at
UCLA. He died on July 20, 1942.

Source: Keith Emmons.

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