Robert Wagner

Robert John Wagner
1930 -
American born Detroit

Nickname RJ, The Brylcreem Kid . Height 5' 11" (1.80 m) . Robert Wagner was born in Detroit, and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was seven. Always wanting to be an actor, he held a variety of jobs (including one as a caddy for Clark Gable while pursuing his goal, but it was while dining with his parents at a restaurant in Beverly Hils that he was "discovered" by a talent scout. He had a bit part in The Happy Years (1950) but it was a small part as a crippled soldier in the Susan Hayward film With a Song in My Heart (1952) that got him attention. His fresh, all-American looks landed him a contract with 20th Century-Fox, which put him in a succession of undemanding roles in Technicolor pictures where his looks were more important than his talent (Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953), Prince Valiant (1954)), but he did manage to show that he was indeed an actor of talent in several showy roles in smaller pictures (A Kiss Before Dying (1956), Between Heaven and Hell (1956)). As he became one of Fox's rising young stars, the studio, as was customary back then, set him up with a host of nubile young actresses, among them Debbie Reynolds. While the pairing didn't lead to any romance, it did lead to a lifelong friendship. In 1956 Wagner, then 26, found the love of his life, 18-year-old actress Natalie Wood. They married on December 28 1957, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Hollywood trumpeted their marriage as the most "glittering union of the 20th century". Robert (RJ to his friends) and Natalie Wood quickly moved into a $150,000 mansion on Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills. He and Natalie Wood were deeply in love and appeared to be the perfect couple, but were actually living on the edge and were strapped for cash. RJ was being overshadowed by new male leads like Marlon Brando and Paul Newman. Natalie Wood was placed on a 14-month suspension with Warner Bros. for refusing to do a movie in England.These problems led them to divorce on April 27 1962. He took the divorce hard. Trying to escape his pain he went to Europe to make the movie The Longest Day (1962). In Europe he met with his old friend Marion Marshall. They married in 1963 and had a daughter, Katie Wagner, but the marriage was short-lived. In 1968 he reluctantly went into television to star in "It Takes a Thief" (1968) (later he would say it was the right move). By 1969 he was thriving professionally, but his personal life wasn't. He was still in love with Natalie Wood and kept in touch with her. However, she had married British producer Richard Gregson and they had a daughter Natasha (later Natasha Gregson Wagner). In 1971 Natalie Wood and RJ saw each other by accident in a restaurant and suddenly the old magic was back. She divorced Richard Gregson, and RJ and Natalie Wood remarried June 16 1972, on their yacht "Splendour". In 1974 they had a daughter, Courtney Brooke. Their second marriage was full of love and happiness. They were a real family and loved raising their three daughters, Katie Wagner, Natasha Gregson Wagner and Courtney Brooke.Wagner went on to do a succession of successful television series ("Switch" (1975), "Hart to Hart" (1979)) and his professional and personal lives seemed to be right on track. Then on November 29 1981, his life was shattered by the news that Natalie Wood had fallen off of "Splendour" and drowned. He was devastated and inconsolable, but insisted on arranging a funeral to honor the love of his life. He spent the next ten years raising Natalie Wood's and his daughters alone. It was 1991 when he married Jill St. John. To this day he finds it difficult to talk about Natalie Wood's death.Wagner has since revived his career with a recurring role as the eye-patch-wearing henchman Number Two to Mike Myers' sinister Dr. Evil in the "Austin Powers" series of spy spoofs and as the host of Fox Movie Channel's "Hour of Stars" (2002), which shows recently discovered and restored episodes of the old TV anthology series "The 20th Century-Fox Hour" (1955), some of which Wagner himself had starred in. Spouse Jill St. John (26 May 1990 - present), Natalie Wood (16 July 1972 - 29 November 1981) (her death) 1 child, Marion Marshall (22 July 1963 - 1970) 1 daughter, Natalie Wood (28 December 1957 - 27 April 1962) (divorced).

Last of the Mustangs (2006) , Netherbeast Incorporated (2007) , Man in the Chair (2007) , Everyone's Hero (2006) , "Boston Legal" (2006) , Hoot (2006) , "Hope & Faith" (2004) , "Las Vegas" (2006) , Category 7: The End of the World (2005) , Little Victim (2005) , The Fallen Ones (2005) , Padrino, El (2004) , Mystery Woman (2003) , "On the Spot" (2003) , The Calling (2002/I) , Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) , Nancy & Frank - A Manhattan Love Story (2002) , The Kidnapping of Chris Burden (2001) , The Retrievers (2001) , Jungle Juice (2001) , Sol Goode (2001) , Becoming Dick (2000) , Rocket's Red Glare (2000) , Abzocker - Eine eiskalte Affäre, Die (2000) , Play It to the Bone (1999) , Forever Fabulous (1999) , Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) , No Vacancy (1999) , Fatal Error (1999) , Crazy in Alabama (1999) , Dill Scallion (1999) , "Camino de Santiago" (1999) , Something to Believe In (1998) , Wild Things (1998) , Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) , "Seinfeld" (1997) , Overdrive (1997) , Hart to Hart: Till Death Do Us Hart (1996) , Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season (1996) , Hart to Hart: Two Harts in 3/4 Time (1995) , Dancing in the Dark (1995) , Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart (1995) , Parallel Lives (1994) , Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die (1994) , Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994) , "Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III" (1994) , Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is (1994) , Hart to Hart: Hart to Hart Returns (1993) , Audacieux, Les (1993) , Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) , Jewels (1992) ,"The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" (1991) , False Arrest (1991) , Delirious (1991) , This Gun for Hire (1991) , "Saturday Night Live" (1989) , "Around the World in 80 Days" (1989/I) , Indiscreet (1988) , Windmills of the Gods (1988) , Love Among Thieves (1987) , There Must Be a Pony (1986) , "Lime Street" (1985) , To Catch a King (1984) , I Am the Cheese (1983) , "Hart to Hart" (1981) , Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) , Hart to Hart (1979) , The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979) , "Pearl" (1978) , The Critical List (1978) , "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries" (1977) , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976) , Death at Love House (1976) , Midway (1976) , "Switch" (1975) , The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975) , The Towering Inferno (1974) , "Colditz" (1973), The Affair (1973) , "The Streets of San Francisco" (1972) , The Streets of San Francisco (1972) , Journey Through Rosebud (1972) , Madame Sin (1972) , Killer by Night (1972) , Crosscurrent (1971) , "The Name of the Game" (1970) , City Beneath the Sea (1971) ,"It Takes a Thief" (1968) , Winning (1969) , Don't Just Stand There! (1968) , The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) , Banning (1967) , How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967) , "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre" (1966) , Harper (1966) , The Pink Panther (1963) , "The Eleventh Hour" (1963) , Sequestrati di Altona, I (1962) , The War Lover (1962) , The Longest Day (1962) , Sail a Crooked Ship (1961) , All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960) , Say One for Me (1959) , Mardi Gras (1958) , In Love and War (1958) , The Hunters (1958) , Stopover Tokyo (1957) , The True Story of Jesse James (1957) , The Mountain (1956) , Between Heaven and Hell (1956) , A Kiss Before Dying (1956) , "The 20th Century-Fox Hour" (1955) , White Feather (1955) , Broken Lance (1954) , Prince Valiant (1954) , Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) , Titanic (1953) , The Silver Whip (1953) , Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) , What Price Glory (1952) , With a Song in My Heart (1952) , Let's Make It Legal (1951) , The Frogmen (1951) , Teresa (1951) , Halls of Montezuma (1950) , The Happy Years (1950)