Actor robert vaughn obituary
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Obituary: Robert Vaughn
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At the height of interpretation show’s favour, Vaughn
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Obituary: Robert Vaughn
Renamed as The Man From U.N.C.L.E, the first episode, shot in black and white, aired in September 1964 with Vaughn playing secret agent Napoleon Solo alongside David McCallum as the Russian born Illya Kuryakin.
The series, with its tongue in cheek approach to espionage ,brought some much-needed relief to a world deep in the Cold War and became an international hit.
It was especially popular in Britain, where schoolboys enthusiastically sent off for U.N.C.L.E. identity cards while their sisters gave Vaughn a screaming pop star style welcome when he arrived in London on a publicity tour in 1966.
Serious actor that he was, Vaughn had no regrets about taking on the role.
"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."
By the third series a misguided attempt to introduce humour into the show resulted in excruciatingly embarrassing scenes such as Solo dancing with a gorilla. Audience numbers nosedived and the series was cancelled half way though its fourth season.
In 1968, Vaughn's former co-star, Steve McQueen, offered him the role of the ambitious and conniving politician, Walter Chalmers,
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Robert Vaughn, star of ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ dies at 83
Robert Vaughn, who became an international TV star in the 1960s playing suave and debonair superspy Napoleon Solo on “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” while also playing a role in the era’s antiwar movement, died on Friday. He was 83.
Vaughn died after a brief battle with acute leukemia, his manager, Matthew Sullivan, confirmed to the Associated Press.
With what Vaughn described in his 2008 autobiography, “A Fortunate Life,” as “a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity,” he experienced more than a half-century of “good fortune” as an actor.
Vaughn, who received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor in the 1959 drama “The Young Philadelphians,” appeared in more than 70 films, including “The Magnificent Seven,” “Bullitt,” “The Towering Inferno,” “S.O.B.” and “Superman III.”
He won a supporting actor Emmy for his role as the conniving White House chief of staff in the 1977 TV mini-series “Washington: Behind Closed Doors.”
He also earned a supporting actor Emmy nomination playing President Woodrow Wilson in the 1979 mini-series “Backstairs at the White House.”
Actor Robert Vaughn in Santa Monica in 2007.
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But Vaughn is best remembered as Solo,