ROBERT VAUGHN

Robert Vaughn was an actor from the 1950s to the 2010s. He was born in 1932. He started as a TV actor, but got the occasional movie role, in classics like Teenage Caveman in 1958. In 1959 he had a lead role in The Young Philadelphians (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) which got him noticed, and the following year he played one of the leads in The Magnificent Seven, playing Lee, the over-the-hill gunfighter (even though Vaughn was only 27). He returned to mostly only doing TV, and in 1964 he was given the lead in the TV version of the James Bond films, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., as Napoleon Solo, and the show was wildly successful (and several feature films were created by joining episodes and were released internationally). After U.N.C.L.E., Vaughn made some excellent movies (Bullitt and The Towering Inferno) and some terrible ones (Starship Invasions), and filled his time doing TV guest appearances and filming infomercials. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 83.