- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMax Christopher Wenner
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Never comfortable in front of the camera, Chris left Blue Peter after only 21 months. He became a journalist. As a war correspondent in Beirut, Lebanon he disappeared for 18 days. In 1995 in the Balkans working for ITN as a journalist for Channel 4, he was brutally beaten up by Serb civilians protesting over Kosovan Albanians.
- IMDb mini biography by: gazd
- SpousesLiz Trubridge(1984 - ?) (divorced, 2 children)Ingrid Bucens(? - October 27, 2021) (his death, 2 children)
- In, 2000 he was honoured with awards at the New York Film Festival and from the UK Royal Television Society, and received the world's leading prize for independent camera journalism, the Rory Peck Award.
- His father had been Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador.
- Brother of actor Martin Wenner.
- After leaving Blue Peter he used the name Max Stahl for his subsequent work as a war correspondent. Max is his first name (Christopher is his middle name) and Stahl is his mother's maiden name.
- In 2019, the national parliament of Timor-Leste granted him Timorese citizenship in recognition and honour of his reports in 1991 and 1999 on the struggle of East Timor to gain independence.
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