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Robert Vaughn
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Actor Born: November 22, 1932 in New York City, NY Biography:To hear him tell it, "Robert Vaughn" has spent most of his acting career getting very well paid for being artistically frustrated. Born in Manhattan and raised in Minnesota, Vaughn went straight from college drama classes to his first film, the juvenile delinquent opus "No Time to Be Young" (1957). Ever on the search for "meaningful" roles, Vaughn signed to play a survivor of a nuclear apocalypse in what he assumed would be a serious, politically potent drama: the film was released as "Teenage Caveman" (1957). Though Oscar-nominated for his performance as a crippled, alcoholic war veteran in "The Young Philadelphians" (1959), Vaughn didn't rise to full stardom until 1964, where he was signed to play ultra-cool secret agent Napoleon Solo in the TV espionage series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968). He swore at that time that he'd never, ever subject himself to the rigors of another television series,... Full Biography
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