Robert Vaughn in The Man From Uncle
He starred in films from The Magnificent Seven to The Towering Inferno, but it was his small screen role as Napoleon Solo, The Man From Uncle, which made Robert Vaughn a household name. His dapper suits, suave manner and sharp sense of humour won him fans around the world and the long running series spawned five films of its own. Now he has died from leukaemia at the age of 83.
Growing up in New York and Minneapolis, Vaughn moved to Los Angeles in his teens, acquiring a master's degree in theatre and a PhD in communications before devoting himself fully to acting. He had an early, uncredited role in Charlton Heston epic The Ten Commandments ad would later star in cult favourites like Good Day For A Hanging and Battle Beyond The Stars, as well as running up against Columbo. His small screen career included appearances in Wagon.
He starred in films from The Magnificent Seven to The Towering Inferno, but it was his small screen role as Napoleon Solo, The Man From Uncle, which made Robert Vaughn a household name. His dapper suits, suave manner and sharp sense of humour won him fans around the world and the long running series spawned five films of its own. Now he has died from leukaemia at the age of 83.
Growing up in New York and Minneapolis, Vaughn moved to Los Angeles in his teens, acquiring a master's degree in theatre and a PhD in communications before devoting himself fully to acting. He had an early, uncredited role in Charlton Heston epic The Ten Commandments ad would later star in cult favourites like Good Day For A Hanging and Battle Beyond The Stars, as well as running up against Columbo. His small screen career included appearances in Wagon.
- 11/11/2016
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
There was no a-ha! moment, no seeing of the light, no epiphany. I’d loved movies since I was a kid, had been a buff since my early teens, but there was no one, shining instance of enlightenment where my relationship with film graduated to something — … Well, the kind of thing my Sound on Sight colleagues have been talking about this month with their “gateway” films. Instead, it was a cumulative experience for me; my road to that point was a long, winding, gradual one. Here and there along that road something would lodge in the ol’ gray matter, tickle at some deep place, until enough of those somethings gathered up over the years finally coalesced into a critical mass.
But I can tell you where that first turn in that road was; that first stop where I picked up that first something. I was six years old, it was...
But I can tell you where that first turn in that road was; that first stop where I picked up that first something. I was six years old, it was...
- 11/18/2011
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
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