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Robert Wagner(I)

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Robert Wagner
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R.J. Wagner was born 1930 in Detroit, the son of a steel executive. 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 golf caddy for Clark Gable) while pursuing his goal, but it was while dining with his parents at a restaurant in Beverly Hills that he was discovered by a talent scout. After making his uncredited screen debut in The Happy Years (1950), Wagner was signed by 20th Century Fox, which carefully built him up toward stardom. He played romantic leads with ease, but it was not until he essayed the two-scene role of a shell-shocked war veteran in With a Song in My Heart (1952) that studio executives recognized his potential as a dramatic actor. He went on to play the title roles in Prince Valiant (1954) and The True Story of Jesse James (1957), and portrayed a cold-blooded murderer in A Kiss Before Dying (1956). In the mid-'60s, however, his film career skidded to a stop after The Pink Panther (1963). Several years of unemployment followed before Wagner made a respectable transition to television as star of the lighthearted espionage series It Takes a Thief (1968). He also starred on the police series Switch (1975), but Wagner's greatest success was opposite Stefanie Powers on the internationally popular Hart to Hart (1979), which ran from 1979 through 1984 and has since been sporadically revived in TV-movie form (another series, Lime Street (1985), was quickly canceled due to the tragic death of Wagner's young co-star, Samantha Smith). Considered one of Hollywood's nicest citizens, Robert Wagner has continued to successfully pursue a leading man career; he has also launched a latter-day stage career, touring with Stefanie Powers in the readers' theater presentation "Love Letters". He found success playing Number Two, a henchman to Dr. Evil in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and its sequels, and in 2007, he began playing Teddy Leopold, a recurring role on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003).
BornFebruary 10, 1930
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Robert Wagner in The War Lover (1962)
Robert Wagner in The War Lover (1962)
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Robert Wagner in The War Lover (1962)
Robert Wagner in The War Lover (1962)
Robert Wagner and Shirley Anne Field in The War Lover (1962)
Robert Wagner and Shirley Anne Field in The War Lover (1962)
Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, and Bill Edwards in The War Lover (1962)
Robert Wagner and Shirley Anne Field in The War Lover (1962)
Robert Wagner, Ed Bishop, Bernard Braden, and Jerry Stovin in The War Lover (1962)
Robert Wagner in The War Lover (1962)
Robert Wagner and Shirley Anne Field in The War Lover (1962)

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Fred Astaire, William Holden, Paul Newman, Richard Chamberlain, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, and Jennifer Jones in The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Towering Inferno
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  • Dan Bigelow
  • 1974
Mike Myers, Michael Caine, Beyoncé, and Verne Troyer in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
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  • Number Two
  • 2002
Mike Myers, Cynthia LaMontagne, Cindy Margolis, Barbara Moore, and Donna W. Scott in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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  • Number Two
  • 1997
Jason Scott Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
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  • Bill Krieger
  • 1993

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  • SuperSonic
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    • Pre-production
  • The Trouble
    • Post-production
  • Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
    NCIS
  • Donna's Inferno (2018)
    Donna's Inferno
  • Raquel Welch, Barry Watson, Lilah Fitzgerald, Audrey Smallman, and Zenia Marshall in Date My Dad (2017)
    Date My Dad
  • Glenn Close, Noomi Rapace, and Christian Rubeck in What Happened to Monday (2017)
    What Happened to Monday
    • (uncredited)
  • Thirty Nine (2016)
    Thirty Nine
  • Lend a Hand for Love (2016)
    Lend a Hand for Love
  • Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, and Betty White in Hot in Cleveland (2010)
    Hot in Cleveland
  • Josh Hopkins, Tiffani Thiessen, Bailee Madison, and Max Charles in Northpole (2014)
    Northpole
  • Jamie Kennedy, Tara Reid, Herbert Russell, Mark Harley, Ben Begley, Terrence Julien, and Rita Volk in The Hungover Games (2014)
    The Hungover Games
  • Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Lauren Tom, and Billy West in Futurama (1999)
    Futurama
    • (voice)
  • Mark Duplass, Katie Aselton, Paul Scheer, Jonathan Lajoie, Stephen Rannazzisi, and Nick Kroll in The League (2009)
    The League
  • Fran Drescher in Happily Divorced (2011)
    Happily Divorced
  • Bachelor Trip (2012)
    Bachelor Trip
  • NCIS (2011)
    NCIS
    • (voice)
  • Jay Leno in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

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  • Brad Dourif, Faye Dunaway, Jill St. John, Robert Wagner, and Damian Chapa in The Calling (2002)
    The Calling
  • Robert Wagner, Jean Smart, Jennifer Elise Cox, Jorja Fox, and Emily Procter in Forever Fabulous (1999)
    Forever Fabulous
  • Hart to Hart: Till Death Do Us Hart (1996)
    Hart to Hart: Till Death Do Us Hart
  • Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers in Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season (1996)
    Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season
  • Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers in Hart to Hart: Two Harts in 3/4 Time (1995)
    Hart to Hart: Two Harts in 3/4 Time
  • Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers in Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart (1995)
    Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart
  • Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die (1994)
    Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
  • Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers in Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994)
    Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
  • Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is (1994)
    Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
  • Hart to Hart Returns (1993)
    Hart to Hart Returns
  • There Must Be a Pony (1986)
    There Must Be a Pony
  • Robert Wagner in Lime Street (1985)
    Lime Street
  • Madame Sin (1972)
    Madame Sin

Soundtrack

  • Saturday Night Live (1975)
    Saturday Night Live
  • Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds, and Robert Wagner in Say One for Me (1959)
    Say One for Me
  • Titanic (1953)
    Titanic
    • (uncredited)
  • Susan Hayward in With a Song in My Heart (1952)
    With a Song in My Heart

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    • February 10, 1930
    • Detroit, Michigan, USA
    • Jill St. JohnMay 26, 1990 - present
    • Katie Wagner
    • (Sibling)
  • Other works
    TV commercial: COMP USA computer retailers.
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    • 4 Print Biographies
    • 1 Portrayal
    • 6 Interviews
    • 12 Articles
    • 4 Pictorials
    • 138 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Is portrayed by Michael Weatherly in The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004). He later portrayed Anthony DiNozzo Sr., the father of Weatherly's character Tony DiNozzo, on NCIS (2003).
  • Quotes
    Life isn't full of 'what ifs'. Only 'what is'.
    • Often plays millionaire roles
    • The Towering Inferno
      (1974)
      $60,000

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