Robert Wagner

Actor

Born: 10 February 1930
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan
Best known as: Jonathan Hart in Hart to Hart
Robert Wagner was a dashing young leading man in the 1950s, when he starred in movies like What Price Glory (1952, with James Cagney) and Prince Valiant (1954, with Janet Leigh). By the late 1960s he had become a regular on TV, where he starred in three lighthearted action series: It Takes a Thief (1968-70), Switch (1975-78) and Hart to Hart (1979-84). In the 1990s Wagner made a comeback as a dapper supporting man, sometimes the heavy but more often playing for laughs; he was Dr. Evil's Number Two in the Austin Powers movie series. Wagner had a long and famous love affair with actress Natalie Wood: they married in 1957, divorced in 1962, and remarried in 1972. Wood drowned in 1981 while yachting with Wagner and actor Christopher Walken.
Extra credit: Wagner played outlaw Jesse James in the 1957 film The True Story of Jesse James... He married actress Jill St. John in 1991... He is the father of actress Katie Wagner (his daughter with his second wife, Marion Marshall) and the stepfather of actress Natasha Gregson Wagner (Wood's daughter with her second husband, Richard Gregson).

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