Robert Wagner raised three women after his wife died in a strange accident. At 93 years old, he looks “wonderful.”
Entangled as a “person of interest” in the mysterious death of his wife, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner’s devoted daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner says she had to help clear her father’s name in what’s been “years of painful speculation.”
Having shared the screen with legends like Raquel Welch, Paul Newman and Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, now 93, is the handsome face behind popular TV series of the 1970s and 1980s, It Takes a Thief, Switch and Hart to Hart.

Robert Wagner
According to the actor, who played Dr. Evil in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, he’s been linked romantically with Hollywood hottest stars, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins and Barbara Stanwyck, an actor 20 years his senior that he met while filming Titanic (1953).
But it was one dark-haired beauty, Hollywood’s sweetheart Natalie Wood, whom he was betrothed since she was only 10, that captured his heart.
In an interview with People in 1976, Wood, known as the rosy-cheeked child in Miracle on 34th Street, said, “I was 10 and he was 18 when I first saw him walking down a hall at 20th Century Fox,” she recalled. “I turned to my mother and said, ‘I’m going to marry him.’”
And she did marry him. Not once, but twice.

American actors Robert Wagner and his wife Natalie Wood (1938 – 1981), circa 1970. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
After marrying in 1957, and divorcing in 1962, the couple were separated for 10 years, remarried and each had children with their other spouses. The star of Rebel Without a Cause shared daughter Natasha (born 1970) with producer Richard Gregson and Wagner had Katie (born 1963) with Marion Mitchell.
Wagner and the star of West Side Story reconnected and married again in 1972, sharing a daughter Courtney, who was born in 1974.
“But we never stopped loving each other…We talked about what had happened to our marriages. He had become a man instead of a boy. But we had to have those years apart,” said the late Wood.

Wood was 43 when, after an evening on a yacht with Wagner and actor Christopher Walken, she allegedly drowned in the waters near Catalina