Robert Francis Vaughn was an American actor noted for his stage, film and television work.
30 Facts About Robert Vaughn
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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 born on November 22,1932, in New York City, to Gerald Walter Vaughn, a radio actor, and his wife, Marcella Frances, a stage actress.
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Robert Vaughn's parents divorced, and Vaughn lived with his grandparents in Minneapolis while his mother traveled and performed.
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Robert Vaughn 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.
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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 more than two hundred episodic roles through mid-2000.
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Robert Vaughn's first credited movie role came the following year in 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 next appeared as gunman Lee in The Magnificent Seven, a role he essentially reprised 20 years later in Battle Beyond the Stars, both films adapted from filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese samurai epic, Seven Samurai.
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Robert Vaughn was the last surviving member of those who portrayed The Magnificent Seven.
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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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In 1966, Robert Vaughn appeared as a bachelor on the nighttime premiere of The Dating Game.
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Robert Vaughn was picked for the date, which was a trip to London.
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Robert Vaughn starred in two seasons of the British detective series The Protectors in the early 1970s.
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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 began co-starring in the British TV drama series Hustle, made for BBC One.
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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 November 2011, it was announced that Robert Vaughn would appear for three weeks in the British soap opera Coronation Street.
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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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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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Early in Matthew's life, Robert Vaughn asked for the child's surname to be Robert Vaughn, which Matthew continues to use professionally.
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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 published Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting in 1972.
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Robert Vaughn died in a hospice in Danbury, Connecticut, on November 11,2016, eleven days before his 84th birthday, after undergoing a year-long treatment for leukemia.