Leif Wager

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Biography

Actor

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·soundtrack
  • Nationality
  • Finland
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 11 February 1922
  • Place of birth
  • Helsinki
  • Death date
  • 2002-03-23
  • Death age
  • 80
  • Place of death
  • 2002-3-23

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

His breakthrough movie Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi was such a huge success in Finland that also Hollywood got interested in him. The MGM company contacted Wagers agent and asked for a copy of the film. This was sent, but the ship carrying the film reels was torpedoed on the Atlantic and Wager eventually stayed in Finland.

Wrote his memoirs, "Hvyttmn hieno elm" (A Shamelessly Fine Life), in 2000.

His father was singer and painter Lars Wager, and mother was reporter Elsa Killengreen. He was first child of Wager and Killengreen.

Studied in Lyce Montaignessa, Paris. After that he went to school back in Helsinki, and studied theater in Oslo.

Work in National Theather of Finland between 1975-1989.

Recorded many songs, includes classic song "Romanssi".

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