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Post by petrolino on Jul 17, 2022 4:49:41 GMT
No matter how low the budget on a shoot, I only read nice things from those who were around him. In fact, it seems he was generous to a fault, and a born raconteur, free-thinking and professional, yet always ready to go no matter what.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 17, 2022 6:46:05 GMT
That's lovely. I so much prefer hearing pleasant things about the performers we enjoy to gossipy "dirt" (as much perverse fun as that can sometimes be).
In the early '80s, we occasionally went to the Tower Video on the Sunset strip (housed in what had previously been the Classic Cat club), which had one of the better collections of LaserDiscs for rent, and we would know when Vaughn was there if his Lincoln with the "RFV" plates was parked in front. Never spoke to him, but I noticed he was always so elegantly dressed. For all his admirably progressive viewpoints, his sartorial splendor was very "old school." A typical ensemble would be velvet blazer over silk button-up shirt, an ascot, gabardine slacks and Italian alligator slip-ons with gold buckles.
All he was missing in that setting was a wing chair and snifter of brandy, both of which I trust were waiting at home when he arrived with his selections for the evening.
The man had style.
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Post by stryker on Jul 17, 2022 7:22:51 GMT
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Jul 17, 2022 15:22:47 GMT
From 1967, a TV Firing Line debate between archconservative William F. Buckley and actor Robert Vaughn. Buckley obviously thought the Man from UNCLE star would be easy meat... Didn't work out that way.
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 18, 2022 0:39:02 GMT
Vaughn received a Ph.D in the early 1970s with a dissertation on the Hollywood blacklist. It was later published as a book which I bought for my public library's collection. It seems to still be in print. I found it on Amazon in trade paperback for $17.05 but only 9 new still in stock so order soon (33 used).
"Only Victims: A Study Of Showbusiness Blacklisting"
He also wrote an autobiography: "A Fortunate Life"
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Post by petrolino on Jul 18, 2022 17:04:53 GMT
That's lovely. I so much prefer hearing pleasant things about the performers we enjoy to gossipy "dirt" (as much perverse fun as that can sometimes be). In the early '80s, we occasionally went to the Tower Video on the Sunset strip (housed in what had previously been the Classic Cat club), which had one of the better collections of LaserDiscs for rent, and we would know when Vaughn was there if his Lincoln with the "RFV" plates was parked in front. Never spoke to him, but I noticed he was always so elegantly dressed. For all his admirably progressive viewpoints, his sartorial splendor was very "old school." A typical ensemble would be velvet blazer over silk button-up shirt, an ascot, gabardine slacks and Italian alligator slip-ons with gold buckles. All he was missing in that setting was a wing chair and snifter of brandy, both of which I trust were waiting at home when he arrived with his selections for the evening. The man had style.
On more than one occasion, Robert Vaughn is said to have offered to work overtime on low budget film productions for no extra money. He knew it could make up a significant proportion of a genre film's budget to hire a "name" actor for a couple of days, so, if a director really needed to shoot another scene but time had run out, and he could be possibly do it, Vaughn would return to set before catching a plane on out.
Fred Olen Ray is one director who recalled Vaughn helping out in this regard; he posted a picture of them together on Instagram with this message ...
"ROBERT VAUGHN... playing the Evil One in my old show WITCH ACADEMY, coming to Blu-ray in a few months. Everybody said Vaughn was a humorless person, but I would beg to differ. We had a great time!"
- Fred Olen Ray, Instagram
Robert Vaughn as the teenage caveman in Roger Corman's 'Teenage Caveman' (1958)
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Post by taranofprydain on Jul 18, 2022 20:02:21 GMT
That's great to hear about a film and TV star who was a genuinely kind person.
(In a similar vein, I never heard anybody utter a bad word about Angela Lansbury or Ann-Margret)
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Post by teleadm on Jul 19, 2022 4:30:42 GMT
When offered a role in Hustle 2004 - 2012 the BBC/AMC TV-series, he read the script and asked "When do we start?"  About Hustle: "I've never tried to con anybody and no one's ever tried to con me. Although, maybe they have and I just don't know." About his career: "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 more than half a century of good fortune." |
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Post by telegonus on Jul 20, 2022 9:19:33 GMT
What a great quote from Mr. Vaughn, and I sense fairly close to the truth as to the quality of the work he got as to what acting talent he possessed. He was a witty fellow.
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Post by petrolino on Jul 22, 2022 22:38:46 GMT
That's great to hear about a film and TV star who was a genuinely kind person. (In a similar vein, I never heard anybody utter a bad word about Angela Lansbury or Ann-Margret)
Oh, cool. That's nice to hear about Ann-Margret. I like to think of Angela Lansbury this way, just as I did Tom Bosley.
I suspect Robert Vaughn was sometimes mistaken by moviegoers for some of the corporate villains he played as a character actor. His performance in 'The Towering Inferno' (1974) saw a flip with fellow television icon Richard Chamberlain who provided one of the most chilling of the 1970s, which is saying something; I've never looked at an elevator (lift) the same way since first seeeing this movie.
Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Fred Astaire, Paul Newman, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Vaughn & O.J. Simpson
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