Ann Margret Husband: Meet Roger Smith

Roger Smith was an American television film actor, producer and screenwriter. He married Ann Margret on May 8, 1967. He became her manager, he largely retired to his myasthenia gravis.

Smith served with the Naval Reserve and was stationed in Hawaii with the Fleet All-Weather Training Unit Pacific, a fight-training unit near Honolulu. After a chance meeting with actor James Cagney, he was encouraged to try a career in Hollywood.

During his career, his career declined, and in 1980, according to Ann Margret, he was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease.

He died at the age of 84 on June 4, 2017, at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles of complications from myasthenia gravis. Smith is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park.