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 Wagner a company of Darryl F. Zanuck's brother in law (the leads were all under contract to Fox) and released through United Artists. Back at Fox he was "Between Heaven and Hell" (1956), a war movie, and "The True Story of Jesse James" (1957), playing the lead role for director Nicholas Ray (Jeffrey Hunter was Frank). Both movies were box office disappointments and it seemed Wagner was unable to make the transition to top level star. This appeared confirmed when he was the lead in "Stopover Tokyo" (1957). In 1959, Wagner disparaged the film: When I started at Fox in 1950