Robert Wagner

Robert Wagner in 'Harper'

Robert Wagner dead in 'Harper'

Robert Wagner (1930 - )

Film Deaths

• Halls Of Montezuma (1950) (Coffman) killed off camera when the US forces come under fire from a japanese rocket attack. He's lying face down next to Martin Milner and when Richard Widmark arrives and turns him over we see head and neck wounds. (Thanks to Brian).
• A Kiss Before Dying (1956) [Bud Corliss]: Hit by a truck and knocked down a quarry when the driver swerves to avoidVirginia Leith. (Thanks to Mac)
• The Mountain (1956) [Christopher 'Chris' Teller]: Falls to his death when he tries to cross an ice bridge, after Spencer Tracy had tried to warn him that it wouldn't hold his weight; we hear Robert's scream over a shot of Spencer looking on helplessly. (Thanks to Tony)
• The True Story of Jesse James (1957)  [Jesse James] Shot from behind by Robert Ford (Carl Thayler).
• Harper (The Moving Target) (1966) [Allan Taggert]: Shot in the back by Arthur Hill just as Robert is about to shoot Paul Newman.
• The Towering Inferno (1974) [Dan Bigelow]: Burned to death in his office. (Thanks to Michael and JWR)
• The Concorde-Airport '79 (1979)  [Kevin Harrison] Commits suicide in his office by shooting himself in the head with a handgun, while watching a TV news broadcast in which a reporter (Susan Blakeley) is about to expose his illegal weapons sales. (There is an alternate version in which he goes out into a hallway and shoots himself in front of witnesses.) (In both versions, the shooting is off-camera; we only hear the shot.)

TV Deaths

• Fatal Error (1999) [Albert Teal]: Suffocates due to huge amounts of calcium building up in his body due to his exposure to David Lewis virus. He dies as Janine Turner talks to him, and his body is later seen as mummifying as his security looks on.

• Mystery Woman (2003) [Jack Stenning]: He is drugged and then hung by William R Moses (off-screen) in his study; his body is shown afterwards. (Thanks to Brian).
• Two and a Half Men: Fish in a Drawer (2008) [Teddy Leopold/Nathan Krunk]: Dies of a heart attack (off-screen); his body is shown afterwards and in flashbacks as CSI investigators try to determine what led to his death.

Notable Connections:

• Mr. Natalie Wood (divorced, remarried, widowed)
• Ex-Mr. Marion Marshall
• Mr. Jill St. John
• Father of Katie Wagner
• Stepfather of Natasha Gregson Wagner