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Robert Vaughn: Young Philadelphians
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Born 1932, November - 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).
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Vaughn has been honored many times in his career. In 1959 he earned a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Young Philadelphians. While starring in The Man From UNCLE Vaughn garnered two Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor in 1965 and 66, and was awarded the 1965 Photoplay Gold Medal for most Popular Actor. In 1968 he earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Bullitt, and in 1977/78 he won the Emmy for Outstanding Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Drama Series for his work in Washington: Behind Closed Doors. He was nominated again in 1979 as Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Special for Backstairs at the White House. Vaughn's most recent honor came in 1998, when he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6633 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Robert Francis Vaughn was born at Charity Hospital in New York on November 22, 1932. The son of show-business parents, his father, Walter, was a radio actor and his mother, Marcella, was a stage actress. Robert came to the public's attention first with his Oscar-nominated role in The Young Philadelphians (1959) in 1959. The next year he was one of the seven in the western classic The Magnificent Seven (1960).
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Vaughn's first notable appearance was in The Young Philadelphians (1959) for which he was nominated for a Supporting Actor Academy Award. Next he appeared as gunman Lee in The Magnificent Seven (1960), a role he essentially reprised 20 years later in Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), both films being adaptations of filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese samurai epic, Seven Samurai. Vaughn played a different role, Judge Oren Travis, on the 1998-2000 syndicated TV series The Magnificent Seven. Vaughn is the only surviving member of the title cast of the original 1960 film (although Eli Wallach, who portrayed the villain Calvera, is still living).
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