ROBERT VAUGHN

12 Nov

(22 November 1932 - 11 November 2016)

American actor Robert Vaughn initially did stage work but soon entered television and saw most of his career on the box. Having appeared in many of the popular series – As the World Turns, Gunsmoke, Dragnet, etc – he finally got his own show, The Lieutenant in 1963 and then The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in 1964 which made his name forever. He carried a spear in his first film, The Ten Commandments (1956), and then made a few B-pictures including Roger Corman’s Teenage Cave Man (1958). His first major role was in The Young Philadelphians (1959) earning him an Oscar nomination and it was followed by The Magnificent Seven (1960). After that it was a mixture of TV and movies, with just a few outstanding films such as Borderlines, Bullitt, Julius Caesar, , The Mind of Mr Soames, The Towering Inferno, Demon Seed, S.O.B., Superman III etc. Vaughn turned up in TV series of The A Team and The Magnificent Seven (playing a judge) and he won an Emmy for Washington Behind Closed Doors (1977). In Britain he made the TV series The Protectors and later on Hustle (from 2004) saw him as the head of a gang of con artists. Then he did three months on Coronation Street as a suspect businessman. His final film was Victoria Negri’s Gold Star (2016).

MICHAEL DARVELL

Michael Darvell

Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead, the magazine of the University of North London School of Librarianship, The Surrealist, the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On in London as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review annual) as the magazine’s Editor. From 2007 to 2015, he was co-editor of the Film Review annual with Mansel Stimpson. As well as writing about films, Michael has reviewed theatre for The Stage newspaper, and has written about music theatre and cabaret for the Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon website. Michael has been a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle since 2005.

ROBERT VAUGHN

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