Robert Francis Vaughn (born November 22, 1932) is an American actor noted for stage, film and television work, and best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the popular 1960s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

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Vaughn was born in New York City to Roman Catholic showbiz parents, Walter, a radio actor, and Marcella, a stage actress. His parents separated at a young age, with Vaughn and his mother relocating to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where 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. There he majored in theater at Los Angeles City College, where he earned his Master's degree. Continuing his higher education even through his successful acting career, Vaughn earned a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Southern California, published his dissertation as the book Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting in 1972.

He made his screen debut on the "Black Friday" episode of the TV series Medic (aridate Nov. 21, 1955), the first of more than 200 episodic roles by the mid-2000s. His first movie appearance was as an uncredited extra in The Ten Commandments (1956), playing a golden calf idolator and also visible in a scene in a chariot behind that of Yul Brynner. Vaughn's credited movie role came the following year in the Western Hell's Crossroads (1957), in which he played the real-life Bob Ford, the killer of outlaw Jesse James.

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