- Born
- Birth namePeter John Wagner
- Height5′ 11¾″ (1.82 m)
- With looks that resemble those of Robert Redford the blond-haired, blue-eyed Wagner was a soap opera favorite as secret agent Frisco Jones in his on-again, off-again appearances on General Hospital (1963). Wagner is a credible actor who doesn't rest on just having good looks. Wagner is just as likely to be found singing as acting. He hit the top 40 pop charts with the song "All I Need" and starred in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera production of "They're Playing Our Song".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ray Hamel
- Born in Washington, Missouri, the son of Peter Wagner, a car salesman who died in 1990, and his wife, Scotty, he took up golf at age 10 and spent his teen years planning on becoming a pro. Performing on stage was just an extracurricular activity for him at the local St. Gertrude School though he won raves. "He has always been an entertainer", says his friend Jim Powers, a former teacher at St. Gertrude who is now his personal manager. "He was really a leader of the school". After attending the University of Missouri for a year and winning the state golf championship, he applied for a golf scholarship to the University of Arizona in 1980. "Fifty young guys all thought they were going to be Jack Nicklaus", he says. He lost out. In frustration, he auditioned for the drama program and won a full scholarship. From that point on, golf took second place. "I decided that I have much more control over what I do on stage", says Jack, "than whether or not my golf ball goes out-of-bounds when it hits a tree". The day after graduating in 1982, Wagner drove to Los Angeles, where he found work as a tour guide at Universal Studios while auditioning for parts. After a brief stint in the short lived cable-TV soap A New Day in Eden (1982), he won the role of "Frisco Jones" on General Hospital (1963).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gisele Herbert
- SpouseKristina Wagner(December 18, 1993 - June 30, 2006) (divorced, 2 children)
- ChildrenKerry Wagner
- Reunited with his long-lost daughter, Kerry, 23, who was given up for adoption by her mother, who had a fling with Jack in the 80s [November 23, 2011].
- Recorded the hit song "All I Need", which reached no. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts in 1985.
- Has a zero golf handicap
- He performed on Broadway in the starring role of the musical "Jekyll & Hyde" in 2000.
- Demonstrated his pro-level golf skills with three-under-par 69 score in lst round of Mario Lemieux Celebrity Invitational at Club at Nevillewood, PA, leading a field of 63 other celebrities and athletes. (11 June 2002)
- My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
- Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
- I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
- Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.
- My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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