Trivia

During the 1960s he worked for television, and he was last seen on screen in the mini-series Alle Jahre wieder: Die Familie Semmeling/Every year again: the Semmeling family (1976).

At the end of the 1950s, his roles became smaller. His later films include the crime drama Banktresor 713/Bank Vault 713 (Werner Klingler, 1957) with Martin Held and Hardy Krüger, and the crime film Der Greifer/The Copper (Eugen York, 1958) with Hans Albers.

After attending middle school, he studied theater with Elly Förster. This was followed by his first roles at theaters in Stuttgart, Munich, and Berlin (Volksbühne and Hebbel-Theater).

From 1945 on, Wagner worked often for the radio, and appeared in many radio plays till 1970.

Among the film productions in 1941 was the National Socialist propaganda film "Stukas", which today may only be shown in Germany under strict conditions as a restricted film.

He appeared in one of the episodes of In jenen Tagen/Seven Journeys (Helmut Käutner, 1947), about the story of a car and its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich. The film's objective was to highlight the private resistance of various figures to the Nazis even while they publicly accepted the repression of Nazi society. In jenen Tagen was well received by the German public and gives an early display of the talent of Helmut Käutner, who both directed and wrote the film.

Fritz Wagner was a German actor and radio play speaker.

Wagner also had a supporting part in the romantic comedy "Film ohne Titel"/Film Without Title (Rudolf Jugert, 1948), starring Hans Söhnker and Hildegard Knef. It is an interesting reflection about the rights to be entertained after WWII: which stories can be told, when all stories seem to have been finished? It shows the attempts of a film crew to shoot a film.

He was involved in the film "Leb' wohl Christina", which is considered an unfinished film because filming could not be completed before the end of the Second World War.

Between 1946 and 1949, Wagner was also one of the faces of the West-German Trümmerfilme, produced in Hamburg in the British Zone in the wake of Germany's defeat during World War II.

Wagner was probably homosexual. Gottfried Lorenz describes in his book 'Töv, di schiet ik an: Beiträge zur Hamburger Schwulengeschichte' how he was named in a 'theatre scandal' around actor Karl Stoll in 1941 and 1942. His sexuality probably hurt his film career during the 1950s.

After the war, he played a leading role in the drama Freies Land/A Free Country (Milo Harbich, 1946) the second film of the newly founded DEFA studio in the Soviet occupation zone which later became East Germany. The propaganda film portrayed the effects of land reforms brought in by the Soviet authorities.

His final feature film was the Theo Lingen comedy Bei Pichler stimmt die Kasse nicht/Pichler's Books Are Not in Order (Hans Quest, 1961).

He also gave acting classes.

In 1945, Fritz Wagner could be heard as a narrator in the radio play adaptation (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk production) of the play Unsere kleine Stadt by Thornton Wilder, directed by Helmut Käutner with Dagmar Altrichter, Ida Ehre and Harry Meyen.