1. Robert Vaughn was a Primetime Emmy Award winner, and was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award and four times for the Golden Globe Award.
55 Facts About Robert Vaughn
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Robert Vaughn subsequently appeared in scores of films, notably as gunman Lee in The Magnificent Seven, Walter Chalmers in Bullitt, Major Paul Krueger in The Bridge at Remagen, the voice of Proteus IV in Demon Seed and Ross Webster in Superman III.
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Robert Vaughn won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of the White House Chief of Staff in the miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors.
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Robert Vaughn appeared in the British soap opera Coronation Street as Milton Fanshaw from January until February 2012.
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Robert Vaughn was chair of the California Democratic State Central Committee speakers bureau during the 1960s, and publicly campaigned against the Vietnam War as a member of the peace group Another Mother for Peace.
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Robert Vaughn was born on November 22,1932, to Gerald Walter and Marcella Frances Vaughn at Charity Hospital in New York City.
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Robert Vaughn's father was a radio actor and his mother was a stage actress.
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Robert Vaughn's parents divorced, and Vaughn lived with his grandparents Frank and Mary Gaudel in Minneapolis while his mother traveled and performed.
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Robert Vaughn attended Lowell Elementary, Jordan Junior High School and North High School in Minneapolis, graduating in 1950.
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Robert Vaughn studied theater arts at Los Angeles City College in 1956 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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Robert Vaughn earned a PhD in communications from the University of Southern California in 1970.
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Robert Vaughn was inducted into the US Army Reserve on November 29,1955, and entered active duty on December 18,1956, at Fort Ord, California.
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Robert Vaughn's mother encouraged his becoming an actor early in his life.
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Robert Vaughn's mother assisted him in being cast on radio shows in the Chicago area.
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Robert Vaughn debuted on radio playing the part of Billy on Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy broadcast on WBBM radio.
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In 1950 Robert Vaughn worked as a page at Minneapolis' WCCO.
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Robert Vaughn is visible during a chariot scene behind Yul Brynner.
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Robert Vaughn's first credited movie role was the Western Hell's Crossroads, in which he played Bob Ford, the murderer of outlaw Jesse James.
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Robert Vaughn appeared as Stan Gray in the episode "The Twisted Road" of the western syndicated series Frontier Doctor.
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Robert Vaughn played in at least one episode of The Rifleman.
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Robert Vaughn played Dan, a West Point dropout who was appointed temporary Marshall of North Fork.
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Robert Vaughn credited Paul Newman with helping him earn his first major film role.
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Robert Vaughn told me it was the perfect role for me and offered to do the screen test with me.
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When offered the chance to run, Robert Vaughn's Lee is told, "Go ahead, Lee, you don't owe anything to anybody".
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Robert Vaughn died in 2016, the last of "The Magnificent Seven" actors.
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Robert Vaughn made his television debut on the November 21,1955, "Black Friday" episode of the American television series Medic, the first of Robert Vaughn's over two hundred episodic television roles through the mid-2000s.
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From 1964 to 1968, Robert Vaughn played Solo with Scottish co-star David McCallum playing his fellow agent, Illya Kuryakin.
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Robert Vaughn said the success of the show boosted his career.
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Robert Vaughn starred in two seasons of the British detective series The Protectors from 1972 through 1974.
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Robert Vaughn first appeared on daytime television in 1995 as a guest-star playing Rick Hamlin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns.
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Robert Vaughn later appeared in 1996 on ABC's One Life to Live playing the role of Bishop Corrington.
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In 2012 Robert Vaughn appeared for three weeks in the British soap opera Coronation Street as wealthy American Milton Fanshaw.
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Robert Vaughn began co-starring in the British TV drama series Hustle, made for BBC One.
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Robert Vaughn ultimately appeared in all eight series aired from 2004 to 2012.
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When show producer Simon Crawford Collins met Robert Vaughn, he recognized "straight away that he could bring a whole new dimension to the part of Albert".
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Robert Vaughn appeared in two episodes of Columbo during the mid-1970s, "Troubled Waters" and "Last Salute to the Commodore".
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Robert Vaughn won an Emmy for his portrayal of Frank Flaherty in Washington: Behind Closed Doors and during the 1980s starred with friend George Peppard in the final season of The A-Team.
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Robert Vaughn additionally played Roosevelt in the 1982 HBO telefilm FDR: That Man in the White House.
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Robert Vaughn 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.
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In 1966, Robert Vaughn founded a film production company, Ferdporqui Productions with his lifelong best friend actor Sherwood Price.
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Robert Vaughn was reportedly to star in their first independent film venture.
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Robert Vaughn's investments included profitable livestock herds and west Texas gas wells which made him a millionaire.
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In later years, Robert 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".
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Robert Vaughn was an infomercial pitchman from 1985 through 1990 for the Helsinki Formula, a claimed baldness cure.
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In 1993, Robert Vaughn told The Los Angeles Times he had no problem promoting the Helsinki Formula "cure".
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For many years, it was believed Robert Vaughn was the biological father of English film director and producer Matthew Robert Vaughn, born when the actor was in a relationship with early 1970s socialite Kathy Ceaton.
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In 1967 Robert 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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Robert Vaughn published Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting in 1972.
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Robert Vaughn's second book, A Fortunate Life, was an autobiography published in 2008 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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Robert Vaughn's family was Democratic and was involved in politics in Minneapolis.
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Robert Vaughn was opposed to the Hollywood Blacklist of suspected Communists on freedom of speech principles, but Vaughn was opposed to Communism as a totalitarian system.
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Robert Vaughn was the chair of the California Democratic State Central Committee speakers bureau and actively campaigned for candidates in the 1960s.
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Robert 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.
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Robert Vaughn was reported to have political ambitions of his own, but in a 1973 interview, he denied having had any political aspirations.
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Robert Vaughn died in a hospice in Danbury, Connecticut, on November 11,2016, after undergoing a year-long treatment for leukemia.