Robert vaughn

Born on November 22, 1932, New Yorker Robert Francis Vaughn was the son of Gerald, a radio host, and Marcella Gaudel Frances, a stage actress from whom he inherited his vocation. His mother taught him to pronounce the monologue “To be or not to be”, from Hamlet, when he was 5 years old, to later find small roles for him on the airwaves.

While studying acting in Los Angeles, he becomes close friends with  James Coburn , and for a time, boyfriend of  Natalie Wood . He lavished himself as a secondary in minor films and television series, until  Roger Corman , king of series B, recruits him as the protagonist of  I Was a Teenage Caveman . Soon after, he established himself alongside  Paul Newman , as an alcoholic war veteran, in  The City Before Me , for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting. Many years later he would meet the actor again in  The Colossus on Fire .

Moviegoers remember him most as Lee, the gunslinger who has to fight to regain his courage, in The Magnificent Seven . He would return to the ‘magnificent’ in his reunion with the Corman factory,  The Magnificent Seven from Space , and in the 1998 series  The Magnificent Seven , where he played a judge. 

Robert Vaughn  triumphed above all on the small screen, as the protagonist of  The CIPOL agent , which was enormously successful for 4 years. When he finished this production, he lavished himself on series and movies. He was an ambitious politician in  Bullitt , and the villain in  Superman III . On the small screen he was General Hugh Stockwell, in the fifth and final season of  The A-Team .

They were survived by actor Linda Staab, whom he married in 1974, and their two children, Caitlin and Cassidy.