Wayne Maunder
Encyclopedia
Wayne E. Maunder is a retired actor
, originally from Canada
, who starred in three American
television series between 1967 and 1974.
George Armstrong Custer
(1839–1876), during the time that Custer was stationed in the American West. The program called simply Custer
aired on ABC
series Custer
at 7:30 Eastern on Wednesday, opposite NBC
's established western
, The Virginian
starring James Drury
and Doug McClure
. The program ended after seventeen episodes.Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penquin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 190
Maunder's next series was a second western, CBS's Lancer
, with co-stars Andrew Duggan
(1923–1988), James Stacy
(born 1936), and Paul Brinegar
(1917–1995). Lancer ran from 1968–1970, with an additional rebroadcast cycle in the summer of 1971.
Maunder's last regular series, Chase
, is
a 21-episode drama
about an undercover police unit which aired on NBC during the 1973-1974 television season, co-starring Mitchell Ryan
(born 1928) as Chase Reddick (hence the name of the series) and Reid Smith
as officer Norm Hamilton. Maunder played the role of police Sergeant
Sam MacCray, one of whose duties was to handle the police dog named "Fuzz". A Jack Webb
production, Chase was created by Stephen J. Cannell
.
province
, but he was reared, along with four siblings, in Bangor
, the seat of Penobscot County
, Maine
, where he moved when he was four years old and considers to be his hometown. His mother was Lydia Maunder (1913–1980). Maunder graduated in 1957 from Bangor High School
, where he played football
and baseball
. He attempted to enter Major League Baseball
but failed in tryouts with the Milwaukee Braves, San Francisco Giants
, and Pittsburgh Pirates
. Maunder spent a few years in the United States Naval Reserve and went on a training mission on the aircraft carrier
, the USS Leyte
.
He studied English
literature
and then drama at El Camino College Compton Center, then known as Compton Junior College in Compton
, California
. He participated in an amateur play and was soon bitten by the acting bug. He headed to Broadway and studied in 1961 under Stella Adler
(1901–1992) during the day and waited tables at Grand Central Station in the evenings. He participated in stock companies
and acted in productions of Hamlet
, Othello
, and Much Ado About Nothing
with the American Shakespeare Company on Long Island
. In 1965, while he was acting in a role in "The Knack" at the Red Barn Theater on Long Island at a salary of $100 per week plus room and board, Maunder signed a contract with a management agency.
, where he secured his first screen role under the name "Wayne Maunder", that of Custer in the 20th Century Fox
production. He grew a moustache
to accompany his long blonde hair for the part of the Ohio
-born military figure. During the American Civil War
, the historical Custer, known as "Yellow Hair", had been the youngest general
in the Union Army
. He relegated to the rank of captain after the war due to force reductions.Not too long afterwards, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and placed in command of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, based in the postwar era at Fort Riley
, Kansas
. The short-lived series involved many stunts and difficult parts.
A year before his Custer role, Maunder made his first ever screen appearance on February 4, 1967, as Michael Duquesne in the episode "Race for the Rainbow" of the ABC western The Monroes
, starring Michael Anderson, Jr.
, and Barbara Hershey
, which occupied the time slot taken the next season by Custer. Maunder used the name "John Wilder" on The Monroes but decided thereafter to return to his own name.
, by his maternal grandfather, Harlan Garrett. A Civil War veteran, Scott was a lieutenant
in the cavalry
under General
Philip Sheridan
. He spent time in a Confederate States of America
prisoner of war
camp. He attended Harvard University
near Boston and was once engaged to a girl named Julie Dennison.
By contrast to Scott, Johnny Lancer, played by James Stacy, Scott's half-brother, was born to a Mexican
woman and had been a gunslinger under the name "Johnny Madrid" for several years before he attempted to settle down on the family's Lancer ranch
.
As the educated older son of Andrew Duggan's patriarchial figure of Murdoch Lancer, Maunder wore short hair and removed the moustache from his Custer role. Like Custer, Lancer was a 20th Century Fox production and also required action scenes and horseback-riding.
series with David Carradine
, twice on The F.B.I. with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
, as Knox in "Time Bomb" (1970) and as Earl Gainey in "The Fatal Showdown" (1972), and as Don Pierce in the episode "Crossfire" of the police drama The Rookies
(1973).
Maunder appeared as attorney
Mike Barrett in the 1971 Twenty Century Fox film The Seven Minutes
, a drama about a banned book and a rape
which created chaos in a town. His costars included Philip Carey
, John Carradine
, Jay C. Flippen
, Harold J. Stone
, and Tom Selleck
. The film was directed
by Russ Meyer
.
After Chase, Maunder appeared in four remaining guest-starring roles: NBC's Police Story (twice in 1975), a creation of Joseph Wambaugh
, ABC's The Streets of San Francisco
with Karl Malden
(1977), as Deputy Burt Campbell in the 1979 episode "Copy-Cat Killings" in Buddy Ebsen
's CBS series Barnaby Jones
, and as Cavanaugh in the film Porky's
(1982).
Maunder resides in the Greater Los Angeles Area
. In
1967, Maunder married the former Lucia Maisto. The couple's son, Dylan T. Maunder, was born the next year in 1968.
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, originally from Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, who starred in three American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television series between 1967 and 1974.
Three television series
From September 6 to December 27, 1968, Maunder starred as 28-year-old Lieutenant ColonelLieutenant colonel
Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his class...
(1839–1876), during the time that Custer was stationed in the American West. The program called simply Custer
Custer (TV series)
Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. During the American Civil War, Custer had risen to the...
aired on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
series Custer
Custer (TV series)
Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. During the American Civil War, Custer had risen to the...
at 7:30 Eastern on Wednesday, opposite NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's established western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
, The Virginian
The Virginian (TV series)
The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series...
starring James Drury
James Drury
James Child Drury, Jr. is an American actor probably best known for his success in playing the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, broadcast on NBC from 1962-1971...
and Doug McClure
Doug McClure
Douglas Osborne "Doug" McClure was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s...
. The program ended after seventeen episodes.Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penquin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 190
Maunder's next series was a second western, CBS's Lancer
Lancer (TV series)
Lancer is a 1968-1970 Western television series on CBS, which starred Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC....
, with co-stars Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan
-Career:During World War II, Duggan was in the 40th Special Services Company, led by actor Melvyn Douglas in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with Lucille Ball in the play Dreamgirl. He developed a friendship with Broadway...
(1923–1988), James Stacy
James Stacy
James Stacy is an American actor. A motorcycle crash left him a multiple amputee and took the life of his girlfriend in 1973. After his recovery, he returned to acting in 1975 before retiring in 1991.-Early life and career:...
(born 1936), and Paul Brinegar
Paul Brinegar
Paul Brinegar was an American character actor.Brinegar made over 100 appearances between 1946 and 1994, appearing in many western films, and played the barman in Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter in 1973...
(1917–1995). Lancer ran from 1968–1970, with an additional rebroadcast cycle in the summer of 1971.
Maunder's last regular series, Chase
Chase (1973 TV series)
Chase is an American television series that aired on the NBC network from September 11, 1973 to August 28, 1974. The show was a production of Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited for Universal Television and marked the first show produced by Stephen J...
, is
a 21-episode drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
about an undercover police unit which aired on NBC during the 1973-1974 television season, co-starring Mitchell Ryan
Mitchell Ryan
Mitchell Ryan is an American actor most recently known for playing Edward Montgomery on the sitcom Dharma & Greg. He also worked with his on-screen wife from Dharma & Greg, Susan Sullivan, in the short-lived series Julie Farr, M.D..Ryan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Louisville,...
(born 1928) as Chase Reddick (hence the name of the series) and Reid Smith
Reid Smith
Reid Smith is a wealthy Los Angeles, California, real estate businessman, who maintained a sporadic acting career from 1970 until about 1990.-Acting career:...
as officer Norm Hamilton. Maunder played the role of police Sergeant
Sergeant
Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent....
Sam MacCray, one of whose duties was to handle the police dog named "Fuzz". A Jack Webb
Jack Webb
John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet...
production, Chase was created by Stephen J. Cannell
Stephen J. Cannell
Stephen Joseph Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor, and the founder of Stephen J. Cannell Productions.-Early life:...
.
Early years and actor's training
Wayne Maunder was born in Four Falls in New BrunswickNew Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
province
Province
A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...
, but he was reared, along with four siblings, in Bangor
Bangor, Maine
Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine...
, the seat of Penobscot County
Penobscot County, Maine
Penobscot County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. For U.S. Census statistical purposes, it is part of the Bangor, Maine, New England County Metropolitan Area . As of 2010, the population was 153,923...
, Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
, where he moved when he was four years old and considers to be his hometown. His mother was Lydia Maunder (1913–1980). Maunder graduated in 1957 from Bangor High School
Bangor High School (Bangor, Maine)
Bangor High School, a member of the Bangor School System, is a high school in Bangor, Maine. It has an enrollment of over 1400 students in grades 9-12....
, where he played football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
and baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
. He attempted to enter Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
but failed in tryouts with the Milwaukee Braves, San Francisco Giants
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
, and Pittsburgh Pirates
Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...
. Maunder spent a few years in the United States Naval Reserve and went on a training mission on the aircraft carrier
Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...
, the USS Leyte
USS Leyte (CV-32)
USS Leyte was one of 24 s built during and shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the third US Navy ship to bear the name. Leyte was commissioned in April 1946, too late to serve in World War II...
.
He studied English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
and then drama at El Camino College Compton Center, then known as Compton Junior College in Compton
Compton, California
Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, southeast of downtown Los Angeles. The city of Compton is one of the oldest cities in the county and on May 11, 1888, was the eighth city to incorporate. The city is considered part of the South side by residents of Los...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. He participated in an amateur play and was soon bitten by the acting bug. He headed to Broadway and studied in 1961 under Stella Adler
Stella Adler
Stella Adler was an American actress and an acclaimed acting teacher, who founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City and the The Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles with long-time protege Joanne Linville, who continues to teach and furthers Adler's legacy...
(1901–1992) during the day and waited tables at Grand Central Station in the evenings. He participated in stock companies
Stock company
Stock company can refer to:*Joint stock company *Stock company - referring to a group of actors...
and acted in productions of Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
, Othello
Othello
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...
, and Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....
with the American Shakespeare Company on Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
. In 1965, while he was acting in a role in "The Knack" at the Red Barn Theater on Long Island at a salary of $100 per week plus room and board, Maunder signed a contract with a management agency.
As Custer
Maunder returned to Los AngelesLos Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, where he secured his first screen role under the name "Wayne Maunder", that of Custer in the 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
production. He grew a moustache
Moustache
A moustache is facial hair grown on the outer surface of the upper lip. It may or may not be accompanied by a type of beard, a facial hair style grown and cropped to cover most of the lower half of the face.-Etymology:...
to accompany his long blonde hair for the part of the Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
-born military figure. During the American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
, the historical Custer, known as "Yellow Hair", had been the youngest general
General
A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
in the Union Army
Union Army
The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...
. He relegated to the rank of captain after the war due to force reductions.Not too long afterwards, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and placed in command of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, based in the postwar era at Fort Riley
Fort Riley
Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in Northeast Kansas, on the Kansas River, between Junction City and Manhattan. The Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 100,656 acres in Geary and Riley counties and includes two census-designated places: Fort Riley North and Fort...
, Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
. The short-lived series involved many stunts and difficult parts.
A year before his Custer role, Maunder made his first ever screen appearance on February 4, 1967, as Michael Duquesne in the episode "Race for the Rainbow" of the ABC western The Monroes
The Monroes (1966 TV series)
The Monroes is a 26-segment Western television series which ran on ABC during the 1966-1967 season – the story of five orphans trying to survive as a family on the frontier in the area about what is now Grand Teton National Park near Jackson in northwestern Wyoming.Michael Anderson, Jr., then 24,...
, starring Michael Anderson, Jr.
Michael Anderson, Jr.
Michael Joseph Anderson, Jr. is an English actor.He was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, into a theatrical family. His grandparents and great-great-aunt were acclaimed actors. His father is the film director Michael Anderson, Sr. He is the stepson of actress Adrienne Ellis, and stepbrother of...
, and Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey , also known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema, in several genres including westerns and comedies...
, which occupied the time slot taken the next season by Custer. Maunder used the name "John Wilder" on The Monroes but decided thereafter to return to his own name.
As Scott Lancer
The fictitious Scott Lancer was born in California, but reared in Boston, MassachusettsMassachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, by his maternal grandfather, Harlan Garrett. A Civil War veteran, Scott was a lieutenant
Lieutenant
A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
in the cavalry
Cavalry
Cavalry or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback. Cavalry were historically the third oldest and the most mobile of the combat arms...
under General
General
A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
Philip Sheridan
Philip Sheridan
Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S...
. He spent time in a Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...
prisoner of war
Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...
camp. He attended Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
near Boston and was once engaged to a girl named Julie Dennison.
By contrast to Scott, Johnny Lancer, played by James Stacy, Scott's half-brother, was born to a Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
woman and had been a gunslinger under the name "Johnny Madrid" for several years before he attempted to settle down on the family's Lancer ranch
Ranch
A ranch is an area of landscape, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool. The word most often applies to livestock-raising operations in the western United States and Canada, though...
.
As the educated older son of Andrew Duggan's patriarchial figure of Murdoch Lancer, Maunder wore short hair and removed the moustache from his Custer role. Like Custer, Lancer was a 20th Century Fox production and also required action scenes and horseback-riding.
Other acting appearances
Between Custer and Lancer, Maunder appeared on three ABC series: the pilot episode of Kung FuKung Fu (TV series)
Kung Fu is an American television series that starred David Carradine. It was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller, who was also a writer for, and co-producer of, the series...
series with David Carradine
David Carradine
David Carradine was an American actor and martial artist, best known for his role as a warrior monk, Kwai Chang Caine, in the 1970s television series, Kung Fu, which later had a 1990s sequel series, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues...
, twice on The F.B.I. with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is an American actor known for his starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I. He is also known as recurring character "Dandy Jim Buckley" in the series Maverick and as the voice behind the character Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: The Animated Series...
, as Knox in "Time Bomb" (1970) and as Earl Gainey in "The Fatal Showdown" (1972), and as Don Pierce in the episode "Crossfire" of the police drama The Rookies
The Rookies
The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department .-History:...
(1973).
Maunder appeared as attorney
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
Mike Barrett in the 1971 Twenty Century Fox film The Seven Minutes
The Seven Minutes
The Seven Minutes is a novel by Irving Wallace on the subject of pornography and freedom of speech. It is about a fictional obscenity trial of a banned book, The Seven Minutes, purported to be the thoughts in a woman's mind during seven minutes of sexual intercourse...
, a drama about a banned book and a rape
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...
which created chaos in a town. His costars included Philip Carey
Philip Carey
-Biography:He was born as Eugene Joseph Carey in Hackensack, New Jersey. A former U.S. Marine, Carey was wounded as part of the ship's detachment of the USS Franklin during World War II and served again in the Korean War....
, John Carradine
John Carradine
John Carradine was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns as well as Shakespearean theater. A member of Cecil B DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history...
, Jay C. Flippen
Jay C. Flippen
Jay C. Flippen is an American character actor who often played police officers or weary criminals in many films of the 1940s/'50s....
, Harold J. Stone
Harold J. Stone
Harold J. Stone was an American film and television character actor.Born Harold Hochstein to a Jewish acting family, he began his career on Broadway in 1939 and appeared in five plays in the next six years, including One Touch of Venus and Stalag 17, following which he made his motion picture...
, and Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck
Thomas William "Tom" Selleck is an American actor, and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television show Magnum, P.I.. He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on the Robert B....
. The film was directed
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
by Russ Meyer
Russ Meyer
Russell Albion "Russ" Meyer was a U.S. motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer....
.
After Chase, Maunder appeared in four remaining guest-starring roles: NBC's Police Story (twice in 1975), a creation of Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States...
, ABC's The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
with Karl Malden
Karl Malden
Karl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...
(1977), as Deputy Burt Campbell in the 1979 episode "Copy-Cat Killings" in Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the movie...
's CBS series Barnaby Jones
Barnaby Jones
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. A spin-off from Cannon, the show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement...
, and as Cavanaugh in the film Porky's
Porky's
Porky's is a 1982 comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida in 1954. It was released in the United States in 1982, and spawned two sequels: Porky's II: The Next Day and Porky's Revenge! and influenced many writers in the teen film genre...
(1982).
Maunder resides in the Greater Los Angeles Area
Greater Los Angeles Area
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1967, Maunder married the former Lucia Maisto. The couple's son, Dylan T. Maunder, was born the next year in 1968.