Robert Vaughn Movies and Career Information

Robert Francis Vaughn, PhD (born November 22, 1932), is an American actor noted for stage, film and television work. He is perhaps best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Vaughn was born in New York City to showbiz parents Marcella Frances (née Gaudel), a stage actress, and Gerald Walter Vaughn, a radio actor. He was raised in an Irish Catholic family, living with his grandparents in Minneapolis, Minnesota while his mother traveled. He attended North High School and later enrolled in the University of Minnesota as a journalism major. He quit after a year and moved to Los Angeles, California with his mother. He enrolled in Los Angeles City College, then transferred to Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences, where he earned a Master's degree in theater. Continuing his higher education even through his successful acting career, Vaughn earned a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Southern California, in 1970. In 1972, he published his dissertation as the book Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting. Vaughn made his television debut on the November 21, 1955 "Black Friday" episode of the American