Actor Robert Vaughn, best known for playing suave spy Napoleon Solo in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., has died at age 83, according to his manager, Matthew Sullivan.
"Mr. Vaughn passed away with his family around him," Sullivan said. The actor had briefly battled acute leukemia. He is survived by wife Linda, son Cassidy and daughter Caitlin.
Vaughn, a prolific actor on stage, TV and the big screen, is also known for his role as a skittish gunman in 1960's The Magnificent Seven and a war veteran in 1959's The Young Philadelphians, a role that earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.
Actor Robert Vaughn. was debonair spy of television's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in the 1960s. He died Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. ( Associated Press)
More recently, he had ongoing roles in TV series such as Coronation Street and Hustle, where he played the con man Albert Stroller.
Born on Nov. 22, 1932, at Charity Hospital in New York City, he was the son of Walter Vaughn, a radio actor and Marcella, a stage actress.
He moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a master's degree in theatre at Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences.
Vaughn did work occasionally in theatre, but his career began as a bit actor on television, in series such as Gunsmoke, Father Knows Best, Wagon Train and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
His first major role was in 1963 TV series The Lieutenant, set on a military base. That work brought him to the attention of producer Norman Felton, who offered him the role of Napoleon Solo in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a part that would secure his image as the debonair secretive operator.
The series, which ran from 1964-68, was one of the most popular television series of the 1960s and made Vaughn an international television star, with a big following in the U.K., where he worked in the 1970s.
He made the transition to feature films and starred in 1968's Bullit, 1974's The Towering Inferno, 1983's Superman III and 1986's Delta Force and Black Moon Rising.
He received an Emmy Award in 1978 for miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors and a nomination the following year for Backstairs at the White House (1979).
In the 1980s, he played Gen. Hunt Stockwell on The A-Team and also was a regular on Murder She Wrote and Law & Order.
Actor Robert Vaughn dead at 83
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