- Rob Wagner is a journalist and author of nearly two dozen books. During more than 40 years as a journalist his reporting ranged from legal affairs coverage in California to Middle East issues. He was a regular contributor of crime stories for True Detective magazine and legal affairs coverage for the legal newspaper the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He covered the Night Stalker trial in Los Angeles and the Kevin Copper case in San Bernardino County, California, among other mass murder trials. He reported on the Middle East for 12 years from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Among his books are "Red Ink White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers, 1920-1962," "The Duke: A Life in Pictures," "Sleeping Giant," "Witness to a Century" and "Hollywood Bohemia: The Roots of Progressive Politics in Rob Wagner's Script."
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- Grandson of 20th Century-Fox publicist Leicester Wagner, great-grandson of silent film director Rob Wagner (II); cousin of actor Max Wagner (I), screenwriter Jack Wagner (III), cameraman/makeup artist Blake Wagner (I), cameraman Robert H. Wagner and actor Henry Travers (I).
- Writer David J. Schow cited material from Wagner's non-fiction book, "Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers, 1920-1962," as inspiration for the TV series Mob City (2013).
- Father of actor Nicholas Wagner (VII) and producer Selena Wagner.
- As a child in the early 1960s, Wagner attended several local children's television shows in Los Angeles when he was a Cub Scout. Boys from Cub Scout Dens, as well as Girl Scouts, regularly attended such TV shows as the audience. Many children, including Wagner, participated in televised skits, educational presentations or assisted the master of ceremonies, such as Billy Barty among other children's TV show hosts.
- A distant cousin of Cecil B. DeMille through DeMille's grandmother, Margaret Blount Hoyt.
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