American - Actor | November 22, 1932 - November 11, 2016
I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.
Robert Vaughn
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With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.
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My goal was always to get better roles, and in my case, performing on stage really led to great opportunities. My breakthrough came when I did Calder Willingham's 'End as a Man' on stage and was spotted by Max Arnow, who'd been the casting chief for Columbia.
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James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to.
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I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies.
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I've made somewhere around 150 pictures, and a lot of them are B-pictures, I can tell you that. I'd say there's about one hundred of them I don't remember.
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After 'UNCLE,' I never accepted the first offer: if I wanted more money, I asked for it. A better dressing room? Four first-class tickets instead of two? I'd ask for them, and I'd often get them.
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We shoot 'Hustle' for 12 to 16 weeks, so that's how long I'm here each year. I've always loved London. I lived here for three years back in the Seventies, when I did a TV series, 'The Protectors,' for Lew Grade.
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If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But you can't. Nor come even close to it.
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I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.
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I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater.
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My wife and I have always been Anglophiles. We always felt we were born in another life in England. I was in the Elizabethan era, and she was from the Norman conquest.
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