Robert Vaughn
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Robert Francis Vaughn (born November 22, 1932) is an American Academy Award-nominated actor noted for stage, film and television work. He is perhaps best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the popular 1960's TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., along with his villainous performance as Ross Webster in Superman III, and most recently in the hit British drama, Hustle, while continuing to be a popular television actor.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
From 1964 to 1968, he starred as "Napoleon Solo", the man from U.N.C.L.E. ("United Network Command for Law and Enforcement"), with British co-star David McCallum. Following the end of that series — which had spawned a spin-off show, large amounts of merchandising, and overseas theatrical movies of reedited episodes — It was in this year that Vaughn landed a large role playing an ambitious Californian politician in the film Bullitt staring Steve McQueen. Vaughn continued to act, in television and in mostly B movies. He starred in two seasons of the Gerry Anderson detective series The Protectors in the early 1970s, and a decade later starred with friend George Peppard in the final season of The A-Team. According to Dirk Benedict, Vaughn was actually added to the cast of that show because of his friendship with Peppard. It was hoped Vaughn would help ease tensions between Mr. T and Peppard.
In 2004, after a string of guest roles on series such as Law & Order, in which he had a recurring role during season eight, Vaughn experienced a resurgence. He began co-starring in the BBC series Hustle, made for the UK's BBC One, also broadcast in the United States on the cable network AMC. In the series Vaughn plays elder-statesman con artist Albert Stroller, a father figure to a group of younger grifters. In September 2006, he guest-starred in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Vaughn is a pitchman for personal injury attorneys in television commercials aired throughout the USA.
Vaughn also appeared as himself narrating and being a character in a radio play broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2007 about making a film in Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the Russian invasion of 1968. Frequent references are made to his playing Napoleon Solo and the character's great spying abilities.
