Robert Vaughn, bl a känd som Napoleon Solo i "Mannen från UNCLE", har avlidit
83 år gammal:
http://deadline.com/2016/11/robert-vaughn-dead-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-1201852907/ ;
Robert Vaughn, whose Napoleon Solo on NBC’s spy yarn The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
set TV’s 1960s standard for suavity and crimebusting cool, died today after a
brief battle with acute leukemia. He was 83. ... Vaughn’s lengthy list of
credits includes everything from an uncredited idol worshipper in The Ten
Commandments to his angry, shouting audience member on Late Night With Conan
O’Brien but he will no doubt be remembered for Napoleon Solo, television’s
answer to James Bond. Uncle 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. ...
Vaughn 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 a gunman in The
Magnificent Seven (1960).
More recently, Vaughn played con man Albert Stroller on British series Hustle
(2004-12). During the first two months of ’12, he took on the role of Milton
Fanshaw in Britain’s soap opera staple Coronation Street, wooing Stephanie
Cole’s Sylvia Goodwin.
Though most closely associated with television, stretching back to
appearances on such foundational series as Gunsmoke, Father Knows Best, Wagon
Train, The Rifleman and The Dick Van Dyke Show, Vaughn boasted a solid resume
of feature film work, 1958’s Teenage Cave Man notwithstanding. In addition to
The Young Philadelphians (1959), The Magnificent Seven (1960), and Bullitt
(1968), Vaughn had memorable parts in popular pictures like The Towering
Inferno (1974), S.O.B. (1981), Superman III (1983) and, as the uncredited voice
of Proteus IV, Demon Seed (1977).
Perfectly willing to have some fun with his long-established image of charm
and elegance, Vaughn made knowing appearances in cult fare like BASEketball
(1998) and Pootie Tang (2001), not to mention his angry, ranting tirades on
O’Brien’s late-night show.
Born in New York City, Vaughn moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a
master’s degree in theater at Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and
Sciences, then in 1970 a Ph.D. in communications from the University of
Southern California. His dissertation, “Only Victims: A Study of Show Business
Blacklisting,” was published in 1972. His memoir, “A Fortunate Life,” was
published in 2009.
Vaughn also appeared on stage, including a 1955 production of The Pilgramage
Play in Hollywood, later taking roles in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector
Hound, and, more recently, Twelve Angry Men at the U.K.’s Birmingham Repertory
Theatre in 2013, continuing with the production when it transferred to the
Garrick Theatre in London’s West End."
Själv tyckte jag att "Mannen från UNCLE", en internationell agentthriller med
glimten i ögat, var riktigt underhållande - den gick i repris för några år
sedan - och Vaughn fyllde sin roll utomordentligt. Jag har också sett honom i
div filmer och fler TV-serier. Den elegante Vaughn var alltid sevärd.
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