Robert Wagner Dying", "The Pink Panther", "Harper", "The Towering Inferno" and many more. Wagner is occasionally drawn into public attention regarding the 1981 death of Natalie Wood with whom he was twice married. An autobiography, "Pieces of My Heart: A Life", written with author Scott Eyman, was published on September 23, 2008. Wagner was born February 10, 1930, in Detroit, Michigan. He is the son of Hazel Alvera (née Boe), a telephone operator, and Robert John Wagner Sr., a traveling salesman who worked for the Ford Motor Company. His paternal grandparents were born in Germany and his maternal grandparents were Norwegian. Wagner
Robert F. Wagner got the first honorary citizenship of Nastaetten, his town of birth. 1961 his son Robert Wagner Jr. was also named honorary citizen of Nastaetten. In the 1930s, Wagner dated Marguerite Young. He died on May 4, 1953, in New York City, and was interred in Calvary Cemetery, Queens. His son Robert F. Wagner Jr. was Mayor of New York City from 1954 to 1965. On September 14, 2004, a portrait of Wagner, along with one of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, was unveiled in the Senate Reception Room. The new portraits joined a group of distinguished former Senators, including Henry Clay,