Posted on 11/11/2016 12:31:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
Actor Robert Vaughn, best known as the secret agent Napoleon Solo in The Man from UNCLE, has died aged 83.
Vaughn was also famous for his role as Lee in the Magnificent Seven, and television roles in Hustle and Coronation Street.
The iconic actor died after a battle with acute leukaemia, his manager, Matthew Sullivan, told the BBC.
Vaughn died in New York on Friday morning surrounded by his family, he said.
David McCallum, from the hit TV show NCIS, who as Illya Kuryakin starred alongside Vaughn in The Man From UNCLE, told TVLine.com he was "utterly devastated" by the news.
"Robert and I worked together for many years and losing him is like losing a part of me. My deepest sympathies go out to Linda and the Vaughn family," he said.
Vaughn, who was "a few months shy of 84" had been seeking treatment for his leukaemia, Mr Sullivan said.
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"Could you spell that?"
"Sure. 'R' is for 'Robert Loggia'... 'O' is for 'Oh my God, it's Robert Loggia'...
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RIP
Sad news. MFU was a favorite show when I was a kid. When the show came back recently on nostalgia TV, I realized it was about a global police force run by the United Nations with the leadership being from India and the UK. Kind of ruined it for me.
If memory serves, he had an earned Ph. D. in Poly Sci.
Vaughn was on many TV shows in the late 50s such as 'The Rifleman' but I was disappointed when he announced at the height of his career he never wanted to be in another show where there was a gun in it.
“Always suave.”
Yep, he had the look.
Wow were losing all our childhood stars. I pray Patrick Macnee is not next but he is 93 now....sigh
Open Channel D, for the last time.
I thought he was good in “Bullit” Great opening credits soundtrack also.
Patrick MacNee of The Avengers show, (with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel), died in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Macnee
Eli Wallach as Tuco was magnificent. He never shut up he was perfect matched with Clint and Lee van Cleef..
I think this is one of the best movies ever made.
Yes, Patrick is gone. I never realized he became a US citizen in 1959 until I read his obit.
What people tend to forget was the MFU was always intended to be a sendup of the secret agent genre.
Get Smart was the sendup, and MFU maybe took itself a little too seriously. Not as seriously as Mission: Impossible, though.
Had a big crush on Ilya Kuriyakin! LOL.
A bunch of kids in my neighborhood got walkie-talkies one Christmas. (Back when neighbors talked to neighbors.) We used them to play Man From UNCLE.
Vaughan was also on the British show “Hustle”. Very good.
(If they ever do a black James Bond I hope it is the guy from Hustle, Adrian Lester. Actually I think he could do an excellent James Bond whatever color he is. Sauvé, debonair, attractive.)
RIP Mr. Solo
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