Celebrity Biographies
Wayne Maunder
He became popular in the United States when he starred in three television series in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Wayne Maunder, Sharon Tate’s next-door neighbor at the time of her tragic murder, passed away on November 11, 2011. , at the age of 88, as a consequence of cardiovascular disease.
Born on December 19, 1937 in New Brunswick, Canada, his family soon moved to the United States, so he grew up in Bangor, Maine. Although he promised as a baseball player, he did not have much luck in this sport, so he decided to study acting with Stella Adler, in New York. When he finished he joined a theater company.
After a small role in the series The Monroes , Fox recruited him to play a historical figure, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, in Custer , a series with which ABC competed with another western, The Virginian , and the science fiction production Lost in space . But the competition had more pull, so the show was canceled after 17 episodes.
Later, the same producer put him in charge of another similar series, which also took place in the United States, Lancer , where he played Scott Lancer, a cowboy who goes to his father’s ranch to help him with his homework, along with Johnny Madrid Lancer. , his half brother, whom he did not know in person. This one did succeed, and when it ended, Wayne Maunder joined Chase , an NBC series created by Stephen J. Cannell . He then went on to play one-off roles in hit TV hits like Kung-Fu .
Porky’s, where he played a racist biker, was his last job. He is survived by his wife Lucia Maisto, with whom he had a son who died in 2005, aged 37, from a drug overdose.
Quentin Tarantino , passionate about Lancer, recruited Luke Perry , a well-remembered actor from Sensation of Living , to play Scott Lancer, a character based on Mander, in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , which takes place at the time when followers of Charles Manson ran out Sharon Tate . At the time of the murder, Wayne Maunder was a neighbor of this actress.