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Wayne E. Maunder (born December 19, 1938) is a retired actor, originally from Canada, who starred in three American television series between 1967 and 1974. Maunder was born in Four Falls in New Brunswick 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.

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.

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