Biografia

Had appeared in three different film versions of The Crucible as a different character each time.

His brilliant performance as Denethor in the BBC radio dramatization of "The Lord of the Rings" is considered by some to be the unsurpassed and defining portrayal of this character.

He was a keen follower of football and cricket and played cricket.

Appeared in Il trono di spade (2011) with Sean Bean. Bean played Boromir in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, while Vaughan played Denethor - Boromir's father - in the BBC Radio drama.

He was considered for many guest roles in Doctor Who (1963) - General Grugger in "Meglos", Aukon in "State of Decay", Sir Robert Muir in "Black Orchid", Ranulf in "The King's Demons", Colonel George Wolsey in "The Awakening", Lord Ravensworth in "The Mark of the Rani", Shockeye in "The Two Doctors", Orcini in "Revelation of the Daleks", Gavrok in "Delta and the Bannermen" and De Flores in "Silver Nemesis".

Obviously one's experiences inform one's acting. I think the more experience you have of life, the better it is for an actor. In terms of the parts I played, I think my face had more to do with it. Clearly I wasn't ever going to play romantic leads.

(On Frank Sinatra) "The great thing about Frank was that you had to stand up to him very quickly. If you did that, he respected you, otherwise he'd walk all over you,"

(On Porridge (1974)) "I still get people saying 'Let you out, have they, Grouty?"

(On Porridge (1974)) "I was in just three episodes and, of course, the feature film, so I have to thank the writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais for the fact I'm one of the characters people always remember when they talk about Porridge (1974) because Grouty is so prominent - even though I'm not there. Everybody's frightened to death of him, so they talked about him a lot and so it was a huge character but I didn't have to be there. I more or less accidentally turned up in something special."

(On Il trono di spade (2011)) "You never know who's going to have their head chopped off next! As far as anything as complex as that goes, if you're playing a part in it, the best thing to do is to concentrate on your own aspect of it, which for me was as Custodian of the Wall. So I really concentrated on all that and kept away from some of the other storylines - if you tried to keep abreast of everything that's going on, you'd drive yourself mad and not be quite so effective in your own performance. In my case, anyway, that's the way I've always worked."