Robert Vaughn was an American actor best known for his role of ‘Napoleon Solo’, the suave spy, in the 1960s spy fiction TV series ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’. An astonishingly-prolific actor, he also gained widespread popularity for his characterization of Harry Rule in ‘The Protectors’, the popular 1970s series; Morgan Wendell in ‘Centennial’, a TV mini-series; and ‘Albert Stroller’, a card sharp in the British television drama series ‘Hustle’. In 1977, he was awarded an ‘Emmy’ for ‘Washington Behind Closed Doors’. He also appeared in a number of films that did well at the box office, some of the more prominent being ‘The Magnificent Seven’, ‘The Bridge at Remagen’, ‘Bullitt’, ‘Superman III’, ‘The Delta Force’, ‘The Towering Inferno’, and ‘The Young Philadelphians’ for which, he received an ‘Oscar’ nomination for the ‘Best Supporting Actor’. Maintaining an active interest in politics; he campaigned tirelessly against the Vietnam War from the late 1960s to the withdrawal of America from the conflict in 1973. A friend of the Kennedys, particularly that of Robert, he was a strong supporter of liberal causes. Acute leukemia claimed his life at the age of 83.