Biography
Robert Francis Vaughn, Ph.D. (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor noted for stage, film and television work. He was, perhaps, best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s television series, "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," and as Albert Stroller in the BBC One series, "Hustle."
Known For
Complete Filmography
Gold Star
2016
as Carmine
Vicki, a young music school dropout, struggles to make sense of her aimless life while caring for her dying 90 year old father.

The American Side
2016
as Silver Haired Man
Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist,...

I Am Steve McQueen
2014
as Self
A walk through the incredible personal and artistic history of legendary actor, race car driver and cultural icon Steve McQueen (1930-80).

The Magnificent Eleven
2013
as American Bob
A modernization of the classic western in which the Cowboys are a struggling local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant a...

Excuse Me for Living
2012
as Jacob
A charming, suicidal druggie must obey his rehab-clinic's demand to lead a seniors men's group or face incarceration and lose the love of his psychiat...

Come Fly With Me: The Story of Pan Am
2011
as Self
The film tells the story of how Pan American World Airways kickstarted the Jet Age and shrank the globe. Real-life 'Pan Am girls' recall a high-life o...

The Warrior Class
2007
as Braddock
Rookie lawyer Alec Brno has just been assigned the case of his career: exposing a billion-dollar oil scam led by a ruthless mafia boss. When he reluct...

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
2005
as Self
Friends, family, co-stars and admirers of actor Steve McQueen talk about his life and his movie career.

Gang Warz
2004
as Chief Hannigan
L.A.'s top Latino gang leader is release from jail on a technicality, swearing to kill both the cop who put him away and the priest who testified agai...

2BPerfectlyHonest
2004
as Nick
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly mo...

Scene Stealers
2004
as Dr. Gadsden Braden
Billy Bottomsly, a struggling artist, is plagiarised by a Hollywood mogul. He involves his "typecast" friends in a star-jacking retribution plan. Bill...

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
2003
as Mr. White (voice)
Everyone's favorite fourth graders have graduated! It's an all-new school year for the kids — and the gang hits the fifth grade running! But they're s...

Happy Hour
2003
as Tulley Sr.
Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance as he secretly hopes to wr...

Lethal Force 2000
2002
as Judge Mancini
Texas cop Thomas Carruth is not just any police officer. He delivers justice -- justice at any price -- with just his badge and trusty bullet, and he'...

Pootie Tang
2001
as Dick Lecter
Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who...

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
2000
as Self
A documentary about 'The Magnificent Seven'.

'Bullitt': Steve McQueen's Commitment to Reality
1998
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie Bullitt with a strong focus on the attention to details taken. It features some of the preparation...

BASEketball
1998
as Baxter Cain
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game combining basketball with the rules of baseball. When the game becomes a huge success, th...

The Sender
1998
as Ron Fairfax
A psychic father and daughter band together with an "angel" in an attempt to save Earth from an extraterrestrial Armageddon. This suspenseful thriller...

McCinsey's Island
1998
as Walter Denkins
Hulk Hogan and Grace Jones star in this adventure tale about a onetime secret agent who finds a treasure map on the shell of a turtle. Soon he's on a ...

Virtual Obsession
1998
as Adam Spring
If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a...

Visions
1998
as Agent Silvestri

The Company Man
1998
as Control 5
When mercenaries attack, Ernest Gray's solemn life as a bookstore owner is revealed to be a cover, and his real identity as an ex-CIA agent puts his f...

Motel Blue
1997
as Chief MacIntyre
Kyle Rivers has joined the Dpt of Defense as an investigator. Her first assignment is to do a background check on Lana Hawking, scientist for a top se...

Menno's Mind
1997
as Senator Zachary Powell
Menno is a computer programmer at The Resort, an enormous funhouse where people can live out their fantasies in virtual reality. Feeding their persona...

Vulcan
1997
as Vince Baxter
When a dinosaur egg is unearthed by a powerful volcano, a little boy's life is changed forever. The pterodactyl named "Vulcan", and the little boy end...

Ocean Tribe
1997
as Bob
Bobby is dying of leukemia. Their friends kidnap him from the hospital and take him on a surfing trip to Mexico.

An American Affair
1997
as Prof. Michaels
Mutual friends Barbara and Genevieve are both sleeping with District Attorney Sam Brady. When they become aware of their bizzare love triangle, they p...

Milk & Money
1996
as Uncle Andre
When David drops out of medical school, he finds out what life isn't really like. He meets beautiful women, holds a box, helps make a movie, and takes...

Joe's Apartment
1996
as Senator Dougherty
A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

Witch Academy
1995
as The Devil
Members of an exclusive college sorority (where sadomasochism seems to rule the day) seek twisted new ways to humiliate a new pledge named Leslie Perk...

Dancing In The Dark
1995
as Dennis Forbes
Anna Forbes suffers an attack and sexual abuse by her father-in-law. But when she overcomes her fear and tells her husband Mark what happened he does ...

Escape to Witch Mountain
1995
as Edward Bolt
The tale of two orphan twins with special powers who go looking for their origins. The two are hindered by an avaricious tycoon who only wants to expl...

W.S.H.: The Myth of the Urban Myth
1994
A folklorist researching an 'urban legend' becomes caught up in his task. The film tells its fictional story in documentary style, featuring interview...

Dust to Dust
1994
Sampson Moses, the corrupt mayor of Brambles, Texas, hires a deadly gunfighter to remove orphaned landowner Billy, since a railroad company wants his ...
Lincoln
1992
as Isaac Arnold (voice)
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

Blind Vision
1992
as Mr. X
A shy mail clerk becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder of a man involved with the beautiful neighbor he is obsessed with.

Tracks of Glory
1992
as Mr. Morris
Racial barriers are broken in circa-1900 Australia by Major Taylor, who becomes a world-champion bicycle racer.

Going Under
1991
as Wedgewood
An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.

Dark Avenger
1990
as Commissioner Peter Kinghorn
An acid-scarred judge turns masked avenger, backed by an electronics expert and her crime lab.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
1990
as Jay Corelli
A young woman from Las Vegas wants Perry Mason to defend her father.

Nobody's Perfect
1990
as Dr. Duncan
Steve is a college freshman who plays tennis for the school. But he falls desperately in love with Shelly, also a tennis player. It's all downhill fro...

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never staye...

The Emissary
1989
Jack Cavanaugh, handpicked by the US president, is a hard-nosed diplomat constantly on the move between hot-spots around the world. When Russia's KGB ...

Transylvania Twist
1989
as Lord Byron Orlock
The nephew of a librarian must go collect a 200 year old book, "The Book of Ulthar." that should have never been checked out by the Evil Count Orlock ...

River of Death
1989
as Wolfgang Manteuffel
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people decide to join him for the wealt...

Buried Alive
1989
as Dr. Gary Julian
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by some unusual types. Spurred on by ...

Brutal Glory
1989
as Max Owens
The highly fictionalized making and breaking of Norman Selby, more recognizable as Kid McCoy, the real life American middleweight world boxing champio...

C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
1989
as Colonel Masters
A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood.

That's Adequate
1989
as Adolf Hitler
This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his de...

Captive Rage
1988
as Eduard Delacorte
When the DEA director arrests the drug-dealing son of a South American general and cocaine baron, the dictator orders a plane of college students, amo...

Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988

Killing Birds
1988
as Dr. Fred Brown
A group of students goes into the woods to study birds, and soon the dead begin to rise to devour the living.

Skeleton Coast
1988
as Colonel Schneider
A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith...

They Call Me Renegade
1987
as Lawson
While on his travel across the Southwestern United States, with his Jeep CJ Renegade and his chestnut colt named Joe Brown, Luke meets Matt, son of a ...

Nightstick
1987
as Ray Melton
A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin.

Desperado
1987
as Sheriff John Whaley
Cowboy Duell McCall wants to quickly deliver a herd of cattle to town, get paid and move on but romance with local girl Nora gets him involved in a fe...

Hour of the Assassin
1987
as Sam Merrick
Fiero is hired to assassinate the newly-elected civilian president of San Pedro. His employers are a group of generals, threatened by the liberal symp...

The Delta Force
1986
as Gen. Woodbridge
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take th...

Prince of Bel Air
1986
as Stanley Auerbach
A free-spirited, womanizing L.A. pool cleaner finds his lifestyle challenged by a new love interest.

Murrow
1986
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Follow legendary news reporter/commentator from his radio broadcasts from the rooftops of London during the Blitz to his TV documentary series "See It...

Black Moon Rising
1986
as Ed Ryland
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.

The Making of 'Superman III'
1985
as Self
This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Superman III, a more comical take on the superhero story in which the ...

International Airport
1985
as Captain Powell
Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.

Private Sessions
1985
as Oliver Coles
A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently ther...

Face to Face
1984
as Dr. Christopher Hamilton
Desperate transgender woman Nina Russell hires prominent, sleazy arrogant plastic surgeon Dr. Christopher Hamilton to create an attractive face for he...

The Making of 'Superman II'
1983
as Self / Ross Webster (uncredited)
Documentary about the making of the sequel to Superman.

Great Transport
1983
as Dr. Emil Kovač
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodin...

Superman III
1983
as Ross Webster
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yield...

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair
1983
as Napoleon Solo
When THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls him and his partner to duty.

Intimate Agony
1983
as Dave Fairmont
Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Or...

Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Field Marshal Milch
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon...

A Question of Honor
1982
as Frederick Walker
Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.

The Day the Bubble Burst
1982
as Richard Whitney
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.

Fantasies
1982
as Girard
A crazed killer stalks the cast of a television soap-opera.

S.O.B.
1981
as David Blackman
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes ...

Battle Beyond the Stars
1980
as Gelt
A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.

Hangar 18
1980
as Gordon Cain
During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizo...

Virus
1980
as Senator Barkley
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world...

City in Fear
1980
as Harrison Crawford III
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page On...

The Gossip Columnist
1980
as Mark Case
New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.

Cuba Crossing
1980
as Hud
An adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.

Doctor Franken
1980
as Dr. Arno Franken
This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert Vaughn as a determined New York surgeon bringing "...

Mirror, Mirror
1979
as Michael Jacoby
A wealthy widow, a restless housewife, and a former model seek to reshape themselves through cosmetic surgery to please the men in their lives.

The Rebels
1979
as Seth McLean
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthrigh...

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
1979
as Dr. Neal
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to gri...

Brass Target
1978
as Col. Donald Rogers
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or...

Daniel in the Lions' Den
1978
as Darius
Daniel is thrown into the lion's den for his part in a plot, and the rest is the familiar Bible story.

The Islander
1978
as Sen. Gerald Stratton
A retired mainland lawyer buys a small Honolulu hotel and finds himself in a murderous situation involving a runaway grand jury witness, a ruthless mo...

FDR: That Man in the White House
1978
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Actor Robert Vaughn takes on writer Dore Schary's acclaimed one-man play, "Sunrise at Campobello," bringing to life one of America's most beloved and ...

The Lucifer Complex
1978
as Glen Manning
An intelligence agent discovers a Nazi plot to revive the Third Reich by using clones.

Starship Invasions
1977
as Prof. Allan Duncan
Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol l...

Demon Seed
1977
as Proteus IV (voice) (uncredited)
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the cre...

Kiss Me, Kill Me
1976
as Edward Fuller
A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher.

3-Way Split
1976
as Tony
Tony Pintana, an art collector, and his wife are contacted by Martin, who is short on cash and proposes to rob a museum of a Indian golden mask that's...

The Baby Sitter
1975
as Stuart Chase
Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is told of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new friend Ann, an actress. When she arrives at the b...

The Towering Inferno
1974
as Senator Parker
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
The Man from Independence
1974
as Harry S. Truman
The Story of Harry S. Truman as he begins his political career in 1929.

The Woman Hunter
1972
as Jerry Hunter
A wealthy woman, vacationing in Acapulco with her stuffy husband, stumbles upon evidence that she is being stalked by an international jewel thief and...

Clay Pigeon
1971
as Neilson
An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are part of a drug-dealing gang.

The Statue
1971
as Ray Whiteley
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on...

The Mind of Mr. Soames
1970
as Dr. Bergen
A 30-year-old man, who has been in a coma since birth, is finally restored to consciousness by a breakthrough brain operation. Although physically an ...

Julius Caesar
1970
as Servilius Casca
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ide...

The Bridge at Remagen
1969
as Maj. Paul Krueger
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead acros...

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969
as Antonio, Photographer
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.

Bullitt
1968
as Walter Chalmers
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in pro...

How to Steal the World
1968
as Napoleon Solo
Secret agent Napoleon Solo fights to stop a top-secret plot to conquer the world.

The Helicopter Spies
1968
as Napoleon Solo
The men from U.N.C.L.E must stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon.

The Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...

The Karate Killers
1967
as Napoleon Solo
International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret form...

The Spy in the Green Hat
1967
as Napoleon Solo
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from ...

The Venetian Affair
1967
as Bill Fenner
Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a...

Italy's in Season
1967
as Self
This short film presents a look at Italy's popular tourist spots.

One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
as Napoleon Solo
A biochemist develops a process that reverses ageing but, when he disappears, it's up to Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin to recover or destroy the pro...

One Spy Too Many
1966
as Napoleon Solo
The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the megalomaniac Alexander from committing the world's greates...

The Glass Bottom Boat
1966
as Napoleon Solo (uncredited)
Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affect...

The Spy with My Face
1965
as Napoleon Solo
Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.

To Trap a Spy
1964
as Napoleon Solo
The men from U.N.C.L.E. are off to Africa to stop the assassination of a president.

The Caretakers
1963
as Jim Melford
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.

The Big Show
1961
as Klaus Everard
A European circus family is torn apart by greed and jealousy.

The Magnificent Seven
1960
as Lee
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

The Young Philadelphians
1959
as Chester A. 'Chet' Gwynn
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and...

Good Day for a Hanging
1959
as Eddie 'The Kid' Campbell
As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and convicted. Marshal Ben helped him to become a honorable citizen...

Unwed Mother
1958
as Don Bigelow
A young, sweet girl from the country moves to Los Angeles with her mother and meets a young man who she thinks is just perfect. That is until she gets...

Teenage Cave Man
1958
as The Symbol Maker's Teenage Son
Roger Corman's post-holocaust quickie about an adolescent tribesman who dares to explore the feared "forbidden zone."

No Time to Be Young
1957
as Buddy Root
A melodrama about young adults growing up and facing the pressures of life.

Hell's Crossroads
1957
as Bob Ford
An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford (Robert Vaughn) and Vic Rodell (Stephen McNally) are nabbed, but the ...

The Ten Commandments
1956
as Spearman / Hebrew at Golden Calf (uncredited)
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal qu...