He’ll be best remembered for his role as Napoleon Solo,
television’s answer to James Bond. Uncle which aired from 1964-68, and paired
Vaughn’s elegant, dark-haired Solo with David McCallum’s blond Russian Illya
Kuryakin, an early example of Cold War detente in the battle against global
evildoers., died in Danbury, Connecticut on November 11th.
He was 83. Born Robert Francis Vaughn in New York City on November 22, 1932, he
also had early roles in “The Young Philadelphians” (1959), for which he was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe
Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and played Lee gunman in “The
Magnificent Seven” (1960). He also appeared in the 1998-200 TV series ‘The
Magnificent 7’ as Judge Oren Travis. His lone Euro-western role was as Lawson
in the 1987 Terence Hill modern day western “They Call Me Renegade”.
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