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Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor noted for his stage, film and television work.[1] His television roles include the spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; the detective Harry Rule in the 1970s series The Protectors; Morgan Wendell in the 1978–1979 miniseries Centennial; General Hunt Stockwell in the fifth season of the 1980s series The A-Team; and grifter and card sharp Albert Stroller in the British television drama series Hustle (2004–2012), for all but one of its 48 episodes. He also appeared in the British soap opera Coronation Street as Milton Fanshaw from January until February 2012.[2]

Robert Vaughn
Vaughn c. 1966 in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Born	Robert Francis Vaughn (1932-11-22)November 22, 1932 New York City, U.S.
Died	November 11, 2016(2016-11-11) (aged 83) Danbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Education	M.A., Los Angeles State College Ph.D., University of Southern California
Occupation	Film, television, stage actor
Years active	1955–2016
Spouse	Linda Staab ​ (m. 1974)​
Children	2
Awards	1 Primetime Emmy Award (1978)
Scientific career
Thesis	Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting (1970)

In film, he portrayed the gunman Lee in The Magnificent Seven with Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen, Major Paul Krueger in The Bridge at Remagen with George Segal and Ben Gazzara, the voice of Proteus IV, the computer villain of Demon Seed, Walter Chalmers in Bullitt with Steve McQueen, Ross Webster in Superman III with Christopher Reeve, General Woodbridge in The Delta Force with Lee Marvin, and war veteran Chester A. Gwynn in The Young Philadelphians with Paul Newman, which earned him a 1959 Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Early life

Robert Vaughn was born on November 22, 1932, in New York City,[3] to Gerald Walter Vaughn, a radio actor, and his wife, Marcella Frances (Gaudel), a stage actress.[4] His parents divorced, and Vaughn lived with his grandparents in Minneapolis while his mother traveled and performed.[4][5][6]

After high school, he enrolled in the University of Minnesota as a journalism major. However, he dropped out after a year and moved to Los Angeles with his mother.[4][7] He studied at Los Angeles City College, then transferred to Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences, earning a master's degree in theater.[4] After graduating from college, Vaughn was drafted into the Army, serving as a drill sergeant.[8][9] He later received a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Southern California in 1970.[10] In 1972, he published his dissertation as the book Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting.[11]

Career

Vaughn made his television debut on the November 21, 1955, "Black Friday" episode of the American television series Medic, the first of more than two hundred episodic roles through mid-2000. His first film appearance was as an uncredited extra in The Ten Commandments (1956),[3] playing a golden calf idolater also visible in a scene in a chariot behind that of Yul Brynner. In 1956, Vaughn made his first guest appearance on Gunsmoke in the episode entitled “Cooter.”[12] The following year, he made his second guest appearance on Gunsmoke opposite Barbara Eden in a Romeo-Juliet role, in the episode "Romeo", which turned out okay for the bride and groom.[13][14]

Vaughn's first credited movie role came the following year in the Western Hell's Crossroads (1957), in which he played Bob Ford, the murderer of outlaw Jesse James. Seen by Burt Lancaster in Calder Willingham's play End as a Man, Vaughn was signed with Lancaster's film company and was to have played the Steve Dallas role in Sweet Smell of Success. Vaughn appeared as Stan Gray in the episode "The Twisted Road" of the western syndicated series Frontier Doctor.

Vaughn's first notable appearance was in The Young Philadelphians (1959),[7] receiving a nomination for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.[1] He next appeared as gunman Lee in The Magnificent Seven (1960),[15] a role he essentially reprised 20 years later in Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), both films adapted from filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese samurai epic, Seven Samurai. Vaughn was the last surviving member of those who portrayed The Magnificent Seven. He played a different role, Judge Oren Travis, on the 1998–2000 syndicated television series The Magnificent Seven.[1]

In 1963 Vaughn appeared in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show as Jim Darling, a successful businessman and an old flame of Laura Petrie in the episode "It's A Shame She Married Me". During the 1963–64 season of The Lieutenant, Vaughn appeared as Captain Raymond Rambridge alongside Gary Lockwood, who played a Marine second lieutenant at Camp Pendleton. Vaughn had guest-starred on Lockwood's 1961–62 series Follow the Sun.

His dissatisfaction with the somewhat diminished aspect of the Rambridge character led Vaughn to request an expanded role. During the conference, his name came up in a telephone call and he ended up being offered a series of his own—as Napoleon Solo, title character in a series originally to be called Solo, but which became The Man from U.N.C.L.E.[7] after the pilot was reshot with Leo G. Carroll in the role of Solo's boss. This was the role which would make Vaughn a household name even behind the Iron Curtain.[7][16]

From 1964 to 1968, Vaughn played Solo with Scottish co-star David McCallum playing his fellow agent, Illya Kuryakin. This production spawned a spinoff show, large amounts of merchandising, overseas theatrical movies of re-edited episodes, and a sequel, The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen-Years-Later Affair. After the series ended, Vaughn landed a major film role playing Walter Chalmers, a U.S. Senator in the film Bullitt starring Steve McQueen;[15] he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role.

In 1966, Vaughn appeared as a bachelor on the nighttime premiere of The Dating Game. He was picked for the date, which was a trip to London. After The Man from U.N.C.L.E was cancelled in 1968, Vaughn continued to appear on television and in mostly B movies. A notable exception is his appearance in The Towering Inferno.

He starred in two seasons of the British detective series The Protectors in the early 1970s. He also appeared in two episodes of Columbo during the mid-1970s, "Troubled Waters" (1975) and "Last Salute to the Commodore" (1976). The latter episode is one of the few in the series where the identity of the murderer is not known until the end. Vaughn won an Emmy for his portrayal of Frank Flaherty in Washington: Behind Closed Doors (ABC, 1977)[17] and during the 1980s starred with friend George Peppard in the final season of The A-Team. Vaughn played Morgan Wendell, opponent to Paul Garrett played by David Janssen in the 1978–79 miniseries Centennial.

Vaughn portrayed Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman,[18] in addition to Woodrow Wilson (in the 1979 television mini-series Backstairs at the White House). He additionally played Roosevelt in the 1982 HBO telefilm FDR: That Man in the White House.[19] In 1983, he starred as villainous multi millionaire Ross Webster in Superman III.[15] In 1983–1984, he appeared as industrialist Harlan Adams in the short-lived series Emerald Point N.A.S., replacing Patrick O'Neal. In the mid-1990s, he made several cameo appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as an audience member who berates the host and his guests beginning with "you people make me sick."[20]

After a string of guest roles on series such as Law & Order (in which he had a recurring role during season eight as Carl Anderton, a wealthy businessman who vows revenge on the NYC DA's office and longtime friend Adam Schiff for sending his grandson to juvenile correction for murdering his stepsister), Vaughn experienced a resurgence in 2004. He began co-starring in the British TV drama series Hustle,[15] made for BBC One. The series was also broadcast in the United States on the cable network AMC.[7] In the series, Vaughn played elder-statesman American con artist Albert Stroller, a father figure to a group of younger grifters.[7] In September 2006, he guest-starred on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Vaughn also appeared as himself narrating and being a character in a radio play broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2007 about making the film The Bridge at Remagen in Prague, during the Russian invasion of 1968.[21] In November 2011, it was announced that Vaughn would appear for three weeks in the British soap opera Coronation Street.[15] His role as Milton in the long-running program lasted from January to February 2012.[22]

In later years, Vaughn appeared in syndicated advertisements marketed by Commercial Pro, Inc. for various personal injury and workers compensation law firms, using the catchphrase, "Tell them you mean business".[23]

Personal life

Vaughn married actress Linda Staab in 1974. They appeared together in a 1973 episode of The Protectors, called "It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island". They adopted two children, Cassidy (born 1976) and Caitlin (born 1981).[17] They resided in Ridgefield, Connecticut.[24]

For many years, it was believed Vaughn was the biological father of English film director and producer Matthew Vaughn, born when the actor was in a relationship with early 1970s socialite Kathy Ceaton. However, a paternity investigation[25] identified the father as George de Vere Drummond, an English aristocrat and godson of King George VI. Early in Matthew's life, Vaughn asked for the child's surname to be Vaughn, which Matthew continues to use professionally.[26]

Political views

Vaughn was a longtime member of the Democratic Party.[3] His family was also Democratic and was involved in politics in Minneapolis.[27] Early in his career, he was described as a "liberal Democrat".[28][29][30][31][32] He was opposed to the Hollywood Blacklist of suspected Communists on freedom of speech principles, but Vaughn also was opposed to Communism as a totalitarian system.[33] Vaughn campaigned for John F. Kennedy in the Presidential election of 1960 for U.S. President.[17] He was the chair of the California Democratic State Central Committee speakers bureau and actively campaigned for candidates in the 1960s.[17][27]

Vaughn was the first popular American actor to take a public stand against the Vietnam War and was active in the peace group Another Mother for Peace.[34] Vaughn debated William F. Buckley Jr. on his program Firing Line on the Vietnam War.[35] With Dick Van Dyke and Carl Reiner, he was a founder of Dissenting Democrats.[36] Early in the 1968 presidential election, they supported the candidacy of Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, who was running for president as an alternative to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who had supported President Lyndon Johnson's escalation of the war in Vietnam.[36]

Vaughn was reported to have political ambitions of his own,[37] but in a 1973 interview, he denied having had any political aspirations.[38] In a conversation with historian Jack Sanders, he stated that after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, "I lost heart for the battle."[17]

Books

Vaughn published Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting in 1972.[11] His second book, A Fortunate Life, was published in 2008.[39]

Death

Vaughn died in a hospice in Danbury, Connecticut,[40][41] on November 11, 2016, eleven days before his 84th birthday,[17][42] after a year-long treatment for leukemia.[43][44]

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Dates	Notes
1955	The Pilgrimage[45]	Judas Iscariot[46]	Pilgrimage Theater, Hollywood[47]	Unknown	Pilgrimage Theater is now known as the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre.[47]
1979	The Real Inspector Hound[48]	Moon[49]	United States	Unknown
1985	Inherit The Wind	Henry Drummond	Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ	March 1985
1989	Love Letters	Andrew Makepiece Ladd III[50]	Edison Theatre[50]	October 31, 1989 – January 21, 1990[50]	Directed by John Tillinger[50] Written by A.R. Gurney[50]
2013	Twelve Angry Men	Juror 9	Birmingham Repertory Theatre Garrick Theatre	October 2013[51] November 2013 – June 2014[52][53]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1956	The Ten Commandments	Spearman / Hebrew at Golden Calf	Biblical epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille.[54] Uncredited
1957	Hell's Crossroads	Bob Ford[55][56]	Western film directed by Franklin Adreon.[57][58]
	No Time to Be Young	Buddy Root	Film noir drama film directed by David Lowell Rich.[59]
1958	Teenage Cave Man	The Symbol Maker's Teenage Son	Independent black-and-white adventure–science fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman.[60]
	Unwed Mother	Don Bigelow	Drama film directed by Walter A. Doniger.[61]
1959	Good Day for a Hanging	Eddie Campbell	Western film directed by Nathan H. Juran.[62]
	The Young Philadelphians	Chester A. Gwynn	Drama film directed by Vincent Sherman.[63] Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.[64] Based on the 1956 novel, The Philadelphian, by Richard P. Powell.[65]
1960	The Magnificent Seven	Lee	Western film directed by John Sturges.[66]
1961	The Big Show[67]	Klaus Everard	DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope drama film directed by James B. Clark.[68] Based on Jerome Weidman's novel I'll Never Go There Any More.[69]
1963	The Caretakers	Jim Melford	Drama film produced and directed by Hall Bartlett.[70][71] Based on the 1959 novel The Caretakers by Dariel Telfer.[72]
1964	To Trap a Spy	Napoleon Solo	Feature length film of the Pilot episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. directed by Don Medford.[73]
1965	The Spy with My Face		Spy-fi spy film based on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and directed by John Newland.[74]
1966	One Spy Too Many		Feature-length film of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s two–part season two premiere episode "Alexander the Greater Affair" written by Dean Hargrove and directed by Joseph Sargent.[75]
	The Glass Bottom Boat		Romantic comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin.[76] Also known as The Spy in Lace Panties.[77][78][79] Uncredited cameo appearance
	One of Our Spies is Missing		Feature length film of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s second season two–part episode "The Bridge of Lions Affair" directed by E. Darrell Hallenbeck and written by Howard Rodman.[80] Based on The Bridge of Lions novel by Henry Slesar.[81]
1967	The Spy in the Green Hat		Feature-length film of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s third season two–part episode "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" directed by Joseph Sargent and written by Peter Allan Fields with the story by David Victor.[82]
	The Venetian Affair	Bill Fenner	Spy film directed by Jerry Thorpe.[83] Based on a novel of the same name by Helen MacInnes.[84][85][86]
	The Karate Killers	Napoleon Solo	Feature-length film of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s third season two–part episode "The Five Daughters Affair" directed by Barry Shear and written by Norman Hudis with the story by Boris Ingster.[87]
1968	The Helicopter Spies		Feature-length film of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s fourth season two–part episode "The Prince of Darkness Affair" directed by Boris Sagal and written by Dean Hargrove.[88]
	How to Steal the World		Feature-length film of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s two–part series finale episodes "The Seven Wonders of the World Affair" directed by Sutton Roley and written by Norman Hudis.[89]
	Bullitt	Walter Chalmers	Drama–thriller film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Philip D'Antoni.[90]
1969	If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium	Antonio, Photographer	DeLuxe Color romantic comedy film directed by Mel Stuart.[91]
	The Bridge at Remagen	Major Paul Kreuger	War film directed by John Guillermin.[92] Based on the book The Bridge at Remagen: The Amazing Story of March 7, 1945 by writer and U. S. Representative Ken Hechler.[93]
1970	Julius Caesar	Servilius Casca	British independent adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, directed by Stuart Burge and written by Robert Furnival.[94]
	The Mind of Mr. Soames	Dr. Michael Bergen	Sci-fi–drama film directed by Alan Cooke.[95] Based on Charles Eric Maine's 1961 novel of the same name.[96][97]
1971	The Statue	Ray Whiteley	British comedy film directed by Rodney Amateau.[98] Based on the play Chip, Chip, Chip by Alec Coppel.[99]
	Clay Pigeon	Neilson	Action film directed by Lane Slate and Tom Stern.[100]
1974	The Man from Independence	Harry S Truman	Biographical–drama film directed by Jack Smight[101][102] and written by Edward DeBlasio.[103]
	The Towering Inferno	Senator Parker	Action–drama disaster film directed by John Guillermin.[104]
1975	Wanted: Babysitter	Stuart Chase	Thriller–drama film directed by René Clément.[105] Also known as in French: La Baby-Sitter, Italian: Babysitter - Un maledetto pasticcio, and German: Das ganz große Ding.
1976	Atraco en la jungla[106]	Tony	Adventure–crime film directed by Gordon Hessler.[107] Also known as 3–Way Split. Blue Jeans and Dynamite, and Double Cross.[107]
1977	Demon Seed	Proteus IV[108]	Sci-fi–horror film directed by Donald Cammell.[109] Based on the novel of the same name by Dean Koontz.[110]
	Starship Invasions	Prof. Allan Duncan	Science fiction film directed, produced, and written by Ed Hunt[111] Also known as in French: L'invasion des soucoupes volantes.[112]
1978	The Lucifer Complex	Glen Manning	Science fiction film directed by Kenneth Hartford & David L. Hewitt[113] and written by Hewitt & Dale Skillicorn.[114]
	Brass Target	Col. Donald Rogers	Post-World War II suspense film directed by John Hough.[115] Based on the novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan.[116]
	Hawaii Five-O	Rolande	Episode: "The Spirit is Willie"
1979	Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff	Dr. Neal[117]	Drama film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky.[118]
1980	Cuba Crossing	Hud	Action film directed by Chuck Workman.[119] Also known as Assignment: Kill Castro[120][121]
	Virus	Senator Barkley[122][123]	Japanese post-apocalyptic Science fiction film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.[124] Based on Sakyo Komatsu's eponymous 1964 novel in which the English version was printed in 2012.[125] Also known as Virus (復活の日, Fukkatsu no hi) (literal translation: Day of Resurrection) in Japanese.
	Hangar 18	Gordon Cain	Action science fiction film directed by James L. Conway and written by Ken Pettus with the story by Thomas C. Chapman and Conway.[126]
	Battle Beyond the Stars	Gelt[127]	Science fiction–adventure film directed by Jimmy T. Murakami.[128]
1981	S.O.B.	David Blackman[129][130]	Comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards.[131]
1983	Superman III	Ross Webster	British superhero film directed by Richard Lester[132] and based on the DC Comics character Superman.
	Great Transport	Dr. Emil Kovac	Action–drama war film directed by Veljko Bulajić.[133] Also known as in Serbo-Croatian: Veliki transport.[133]
1986	Black Moon Rising	Ed Ryland	Action film directed by Harley Cokliss and written by John Carpenter.[134]
	The Delta Force	Gen. Woodbridge
1987	Hour of the Assassin	Sam Merrick
	They Call Me Renegade	Lawson
	Killing Birds	Dr. Fred Brown
1988	Skeleton Coast	Maj. Schneider
	Captive Rage	Eduard Delacorte
	Another Way: D-Kikan Joho	Mr. D	Japanese film
1989	The Emissary	Ambassador Ed MacKay
	That's Adequate	Adolf Hitler
	C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.	Colonel Masters
	River of Death	Dr. Wolfgang Manteuffel
	Transylvania Twist	Lord Byron Orlock
1990	Buried Alive	Gary Julian
	Nobody's Perfect	Dr. Duncan
1991	Going Under	Wedgewood	Also known as Dive![135]
1992	Blind Vision	Mr. X
1994	Dust to Dust	Mayor Sampson Moses
1995	Witch Academy	The Devil
1996	Joe's Apartment	Senator Dougherty
	Milk & Money	Uncle Andre
1997	Menno's Mind	Senator Zachary Powell
	Motel Blue	Chief MacIntyre
	Vulcan	Vince Baxter
	An American Affair	Prof. Michaels
1998	Visions	Agent Silvestri
	McCinsey's Island	Walter Denkins
	The Sender	Ron Fairfax
	BASEketball	Baxter Cain	Vaughn's 100th feature film
2001	Pootie Tang	Dick Lecter
2002	Cottonmouth	Judge Mancini
2003	Happy Hour	Tulley Sr.
	Doug McPlug: The Life and Times
	Hoodlum & Son	Benny 'The Bomb' Palladino
2004	Scene Stealers	Dr. Gadsden Braden
	2BPerfectlyHonest	Nick
	Gang Warz	Chief Hannigan
2012	Excuse Me for Living	Jacob
	The Magnificent Eleven	American Bob
2014	A Cry from Within	Doc Williams
2016	The American Side	Silver-Haired Man
	Gold Star	Carmine	(final film role)

Television

References

Sources

External links

• Official website
• Robert Vaughn at AllMovie
• Robert Vaughn at IMDb 
• Robert Vaughn at the Internet Broadway Database
• Robert Vaughn at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Robert Vaughn at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
• Obituary: Robert Vaughn—BBC News; first published 11 November 2016
• Robert Vaughn (Aveleyman)
• Robert Vaughn at Find a Grave

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[de] Robert Vaughn

Robert Francis Vaughn [.mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}vɔ:n] (* 22. November 1932 in New York City, New York; † 11. November 2016 in Ridgefield, Connecticut[1]) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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- [en] Robert Vaughn

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[es] Robert Vaughn

Robert Francis Vaughn (Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 22 de noviembre de 1932-Ridgefield, 11 de noviembre de 2016),[1] más conocido como Robert Vaughn, fue un actor de cine y televisión estadounidense famoso por haber interpretado a Napoleón Solo en la serie de televisión The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (El agente de C.I.P.O.L en España y América Latina), a Ross Webster en Superman III y a Albert Stroller en la exitosa serie británica Hustle.

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[ru] Вон, Роберт

Роберт Вон (англ. Robert Vaughn; 22 ноября 1932, Нью-Йорк, США — 11 ноября 2016[6].) — американский актёр, наиболее известный по ролям в фильмах «Великолепная семёрка» и «Буллит», а также телесериале «Агенты А. Н.К. Л.».

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