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Robert Vaughn
Robert Francis Vaughn was an American actor and political activist, whose career in film, television and theater spanned nearly six decades and who was best known for his role as the secret agent Napoleon Solo on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–68). He was a Primetime Emmy Award winner, and was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, two Laurel Awards, and four times for the Golden Globe A…
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entertainment · American actor (1932–2016) · actor · stage actor · television actor · film actor · voice actor · also Robert Vaughn, Robert Francis Vaughn, Vaughn
Born 22 November 1932 · Died 11 November 2016 · Q314834
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2026· 6 entries
“I swear, you guys rip on me thirteen or fourteen more times and I'm outta here!”
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“Not only was it a great deal of fun, it changed me from being a working actor to a negotiating actor. After U.N.C.L.E., I never accepted the first offer: if I wanted more money, I asked for it. A better dressing room? Four first-class tickets instead of two? I”
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“Girls age 9 to 12 liked David McCallum because he was so sweet, but the old ladies and the 13- to 16-year-olds liked me because I was so detached”
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Public attention spiked: 5,233 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 1,486, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
“If it went tomorrow, it wouldn”
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2016· 3 entries
, at the age of 83, after undergoing a year-long treatment for leukemia
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Died 2016-11-11.
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The last of The Magnificent Seven actors
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2012· 1 entry
Vaughn appeared for three weeks in the British soap opera Coronation Street as wealthy American Milton Fanshaw
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2008· 1 entry
In which Vaughn said of his life, "With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune
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2007· 1 entry
About making the film The Bridge at Remagen in Prague, during the Russian invasion of 1968
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2006· 3 entries
“told to get on a plane an hour after I got the phone call and start shooting the following day.”
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“I imagined that Napoleon Solo had retired from U.N.C.L.E., whatever U.N.C.L.E. was. What could he do now to use his talents and to supplement his government pension? I imagined Stroller as Napoleon Solo, The Later Years”
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Vaughn said "I imagined that Napoleon Solo had retired from U
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1996· 1 entry
On ABC's One Life to Live playing the role of Bishop Corrington
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1995· 1 entry
As a guest-star playing Rick Hamlin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns
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1994· 1 entry
The Federal Trade Commission sued, blocking the product's bogus claims, but $100 million of the product had already been sold
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1993· 1 entry
Vaughn told The Los Angeles Times he had no problem promoting the Helsinki Formula "cure"
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1983· 1 entry
Starred as villainous multi-millionaire Ross Webster in Superman III
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1978).
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1976· 1 entry
“Last Salute to the Commodore”
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1972· 2 entries
Published his dissertation as a book titled Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting
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“With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I”
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1970· 1 entry
Vaughn earned a PhD in communications
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1968· 2 entries
The company opened a branch office in Great Britain
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Vaughn continued to appear on television and in films
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1967· 2 entries
Vaughn released the MGM Records spoken word album Readings From Hamlet, which featured him performing seven excerpts from Shakespeare's Hamlet accompanied with incidental music
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One of his wells saw an increase in production output from $13 per week to $270 per day, a $98,550 annual output (equivalent to $951,568 in 2025)
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1966· 4 entries
She acted opposite Vaughn as a guest star on a 1966 U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Dippy Blond Affair".
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Vaughn founded a film production company, Ferdporqui Productions with his lifelong best friend actor Sherwood Price
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Acquired the production rights to Joseph Sargent's "story idea" Bridge on the River Hudson and hired Peter Allan Fields to produce a script treatment
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And sought investors in the proposed film's production
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1965· 1 entry
“I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful,”
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1963· 1 entry
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"
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1962· 1 entry
Vaughn starred as Boston based private detective A
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1956· 2 entries
And transferred to Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences earning a master's degree in theater in 1960
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Vaughn made his first guest appearance on Gunsmoke in the episode entitled “Cooter
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1955· 1 entry
And entered active duty on December 18, 1956, at Fort Ord, California
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1950· 1 entry
Vaughn worked as a page at Minneapolis' WCCO (AM)
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1932· 2 entries
To Gerald Walter and Marcella Frances (née Gaudel) Vaughn at Charity Hospital in New York City
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Born 1932-11-22.
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