Chuck Wagner is an American actor, director, musical theater historian and teacher. He has had an extensive career in theater, but is perhaps best known for co-starring in the short-lived science fiction TV series Automan (1983–84). Notables Broadway credits include both Princes and the Wolf in Into the Woods, The Beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Javert in Les Misérables. He also played the titular role in Jekyll & Hyde on the 2nd US national tour. Early life Wagner was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and raised in Hartsville, Tennessee. He attended public school in Gallatin. While at Gallatin High School, he performed the leads in "My Fair Lady", "Carousel", and "Inherit the Wind". As a BFA student, he attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa under Edmond Williams and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles under John Houseman. His collegiate summers were spent in Manteo, North Carolina, where he played John Borden in The Lost Colony, America's longest running outdoor drama. Career Television He is known for his role in the short-lived science fiction 1983 TV series Automan as the title character. He also starred on the soap opera General Hospital as Randall Thompson in 1981 and 1982. In 1981, Wagner was a contestant on the television game show Password Plus. In 1984, he appeared on the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour. In 2012, he was also a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Wagner has made guest appearances on numerous TV shows, including The Dukes of Hazzard, Dynasty, and Matlock. Musical theatre Wagner has performed in several Broadway productions. His first role on Broadway was in The Three Musketeers in 1984 as Athos. Wagner went on to originate the role of Rapunzel's Prince in the original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods (1987). The recording of that show, on which Wagner appears, won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. In 1988, he joined the cast of the first US tour of Into the Woods. playing the roles of The Wolf and Cinderella's Prince. (Roles he understudied in the original Broadway production) Wagner has appeared on Broadway (replacement) and in the U.S. national tour (1992) of Les Misérables as Inspector Javert. In 1994, he began a four-year stint as "The Beast", in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, in both the Broadway (replacement) and Toronto productions. Wagner originated the title roles in Frank