Robert Wagner is known for starring in the television shows It Takes a Thief, Switch, and Hart to Hart.
48 Facts About Robert Wagner
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Robert Wagner later had a recurring role as Teddy Leopold in the TV sitcom Two and a Half Men and made twelve guest appearances as Anthony DiNozzo Sr.
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Robert Wagner's parents were both immigrants from Norway, who married in La Crosse in 1887.
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Robert Wagner made his uncredited film debut in The Happy Years ; was signed by agent Henry Willson and put under contract with 20th Century Fox.
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Robert Wagner had a supporting role, with Richard Widmark as the star.
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Let's Make It Legal was a comedy where Robert Wagner again supported an older star, in this case Claudette Colbert.
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Robert Wagner first gained significant attention with a small but showy part as a shell-shocked soldier in With a Song in My Heart.
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Robert Wagner was the romantic male lead in Stars and Stripes Forever, a biopic about John Philip Sousa starring Clifton Webb.
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Robert Wagner supported James Cagney and Dan Dailey in John Ford's version of What Price Glory and supported Webb again in Titanic.
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Robert Wagner was in a minor Western, The Silver Whip with Rory Calhoun.
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Also popular was a Western, Broken Lance, where Robert Wagner supported Spencer Tracy for director Edward Dmytryk, appearing as Tracy's son.
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Robert Wagner was teamed with Jeffrey Hunter in a Western, White Feather.
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Robert Wagner was borrowed by Paramount for The Mountain, directed by Dmytryk, where Robert Wagner was cast as Spencer Tracy's brother, having played his son just two years earlier in the same director's Broken Lance.
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Robert Wagner received more critical acclaim for the lead in A Kiss Before Dying, from the novel by Ira Levin; it was made for Crown Productions, a company of Darryl F Zanuck's brother in law and released through United Artists.
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Back at Fox Robert Wagner was in Between Heaven and Hell, a war movie, and The True Story of Jesse James, playing the leading role for director Nicholas Ray.
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Wagner supported Robert Mitchum in a Korean War movie, The Hunters, and appeared with a number of Fox contractees in a World War II drama, In Love and War ; the latter was a hit.
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Robert Wagner made Sail a Crooked Ship but his part in The Interns went to James MacArthur.
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Robert Wagner did make The War Lover with Steve McQueen that was filmed in England.
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Robert Wagner had a small role in The Longest Day, produced by Daryl Zanuck for Fox.
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Robert Wagner had a larger part in The Condemned of Altona, a commercial and critical disappointment despite being directed by Vittorio de Sica and co-starring Sophia Loren.
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Considerably more popular was The Pink Panther, a massive hit, although Robert Wagner's part was very much in support to those of David Niven, Capucine, Peter Sellers, and Claudia Cardinale.
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Robert Wagner signed with Universal Pictures in 1966, starring opposite future wife Jill St John in the films How I Spent My Summer Vacation, a made-for-TV movie released in the United Kingdom as Deadly Roulette, and Banning.
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Robert Wagner returned to Italy to make a caper film with Raquel Welch for MGM, The Biggest Bundle of Them All, but it was not a success.
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In 1967, Lew Wasserman of Universal convinced Robert Wagner to make his television series debut in It Takes a Thief on ABC-TV.
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Robert Wagner was a longtime friend of Astaire, having gone to school with Astaire's eldest son, Peter.
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Robert Wagner guest-starred in The Name of the Game.
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Robert Wagner appeared in the series pilot, City Beneath the Sea, that was not picked up.
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Robert Wagner reunited with McQueen, along with Paul Newman and Faye Dunaway, in the disaster film The Towering Inferno released in the same year.
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Robert Wagner spoke at his funeral, and gave a testimonial about his longtime friendship with him.
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Robert Wagner had a small role in some all-star Universal films, Midway and The Concorde.
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Robert Wagner had a supporting role in I Am the Cheese.
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Robert Wagner played an insurance investigator in the short-lived TV series Lime Street.
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Robert Wagner appeared in a TV movie with Audrey Hepburn, Love Among Thieves and in a miniseries with Jaclyn Smith, Windmills of the Gods.
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Robert Wagner played Dr Evil's henchman Number 2 in all three films: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember.
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Robert Wagner became the host of Fox Movie Channel's Hour of Stars, featuring original television episodes of The 20th Century-Fox Hour, a series which he had appeared on in his early days with the studio.
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In season four's premiere, Robert Wagner played a crooked Texan being taken for half a million dollars.
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Robert Wagner had a recurring role of a rich suitor to the main characters' mother on the sitcom Two and a Half Men.
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Robert Wagner has guest-starred in 13 episodes of NCIS as Anthony DiNozzo Sr.
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Robert Wagner was set to star as Charlie in the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels, but had to exit the project due to scheduling conflicts.
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Robert Wagner claimed a four-year romantic relationship with Barbara Stanwyck after they acted together in the movie Titanic.
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Robert Wagner is rumored to have had affairs with men, although Wagner identifies as heterosexual.
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In 1956, when he was 26 years old, Robert Wagner became involved with 18-year-old actress Natalie Wood.
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Robert Wagner was engaged to Tina Sinatra from June 1970 until January 1972.
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Robert Wagner gradually cut ties with his former sister-in-law, Lana Wood.
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On Valentine's Day 1982, Robert Wagner began dating actress Jill St John, whom he had known since the late 1950s.
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Robert Wagner's memoir has an early photo of them together, taken in 1959 when they were contract players at Fox.
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Later, in his memoir Pieces of My Heart, Robert Wagner acknowledged that he had an argument with Wood before she disappeared but had calmed down and gone to bed.
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Robert Wagner alleged that Wood had been flirting with Walken, that Wagner was jealous and enraged, and that following Wood's disappearance, Wagner had prevented Davern from turning on the search lights and notifying authorities.