Robert Vaughn
Robert Vaughn Trivia
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His 100th film was BASEketball.
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He has a doctorate in communication.
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During the first season of Hustle, he was jokingly referred to as "Sir Robert" by his co-stars. This is done primarily to avoid confusion with his co-star Robert Glenister.
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His father, Walter, was a radio actor while his mother, Marcella, was a stage actress.
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He played Lee in The Magnificent Seven. He later portrayed Judge Oren Travis in the television version, The Magnificent Seven (1998). He was also the only actor to appear in both.
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His first film was The Ten Commandments. It also starred his future The Magnificent Seven co-star Yul Brynner.
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He has been working on his autobiography titled Christ, Shakespeare, Ho Chi Min: As I Knew Them for some years now, but no date has been set for publication.
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He currently has a home in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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Despite the vastly different settings, he played essentially the same character in both The Magnificent Seven and Battle Beyond the Stars. Both films were unofficial remakes of The Seven Samurai.
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He appeared in three different films with Steve McQueen: The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt and The Towering Inferno.
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Politically, he is a moderate Democrat.
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He has portrayed Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman on stage.
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He was a very close friend of his The Magnificent Seven co-star James Coburn. They went to California State University, Los Angeles together in the early 1950s.
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Although he was one of the main stars of The Magnificent Seven, he had only sixteen lines in the film.
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The California Democratic Party originally wanted him to challenge Ronald Reagan for Governor. Even though Vaughn is a Democrat, and disliked Reagan, he refused and instead stood behind Governor Brown, who lost the election to Reagan. Another possible candidate was Gregory Peck.
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He has appeared in episodes of three different series with David McCallum: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Please Don't Eat the Daisies and The A-Team.
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He was one of the first actors to play the same character (Napoleon Solo) on three different series: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Please Don't Eat the Daisies and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E..
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He was a close friend of Robert F. Kennedy.
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He married Linda Staab on June 29, 1974. They have two adopted children, Cassidy (b. 1975) and Caitlin (b. 1981).
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With the death of Charles Bronson on August 30, 2003, he is the only one of the seven main stars of The Magnificent Seven who is still alive, as of April 2006.
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He played Richard Dean Anderson's father in Emerald Point N.A.S. although he is only seventeen years older than him.
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Robert Vaughn: (on being referred to as a television legend) I'm glad that I've lived long enough to reach that status, if indeed I have! People are very nice. They come up, introduce themselves and say, 'You made my childhood'. Although I notice that the women saying that are getting older and older - they are great-grandmothers now!
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Robert Vaughn: (about The Magnificent Seven) We were filming for about three months and most of the time we'd sit around playing poker saying what a piece of s**t this movie was going to be because there was no script! Every day at about midnight they'd push something handwritten under the door and it was your script for the next day. We really thought, 'Oh no! This is going to be dreadful' but we were wrong obviously!
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Robert Vaughn: My son was about eight years old and 90% of the kids who went to his school were kids of investment bankers so didn't understand what I did for a living. But when Superman III came out, it was, 'Cassidy Vaughn's dad tried to kill Superman!' I'd go to the school plays and the kids were fascinated with me but they were also scared! However, I didn't succeed in killing Superman so that was okay. Cassidy was a hot young thing at school after that. His stock went up 1000% but it would have been a different story if I'd succeeded in doing away with Superman, I'm sure!
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