1. Robert Gerard Goulet was an American and Canadian singer and actor of French-Canadian ancestry.
41 Facts About Robert Goulet
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Robert Goulet starred in a 1966 television version of Brigadoon, a production which won five primetime Emmy Awards.
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Robert Goulet gained recognition for his performance as Billy Bigelow in an abridged 1967 network television version of the musical Carousel.
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Robert Goulet later returned to Broadway in 1993 as King Arthur in a revival of Camelot.
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Robert Goulet was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Haverhill Street, where he lived.
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Robert Goulet was the only son of Jeanette and Joseph Georges Andre Goulet.
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Robert Goulet's parents were French Canadian, and he was a descendant of French-Canadian pioneers Zacharie Cloutier and Jacques Goulet.
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Shortly after his father's death, 13-year-old Robert Goulet moved with his mother and sister Claire to Girouxville, Alberta, where his uncle and other relatives lived, and he spent his formative years in Canada.
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Robert Goulet performed in opera productions with other Conservatory vocal students, including Jon Vickers and James Milligan.
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Robert Goulet appeared in eight productions, including Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing, Dream Girl, South Pacific, Meet Me in St Louis and Carousel.
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John Kenley came to his dressing room after the opening of Pajama Game and gave him a raise, saying it was "because he knew he could never afford to again", Robert Goulet said in 2006.
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In 1959, Robert Goulet was introduced to librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe, who were having difficulty casting the role of Lancelot in their stage production Camelot.
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Lerner and Loewe, impressed by Robert Goulet's talent, signed the virtual newcomer to play the part, opposite Richard Burton and Julie Andrews.
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Robert Goulet received favorable reviews, most notably for his show-stopping romantic ballad, "If Ever I Would Leave You" which would become his signature song.
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Robert Goulet began a recording career with Columbia Records in 1962, which resulted in more than 60 best selling albums.
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Robert Goulet had never sung the US anthem in public before; the only anthem that he had ever done publicly was "O Canada".
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The gaffes were reported in newspapers nationwide the next morning, and Robert Goulet was criticized in opinion columns for a lack of knowledge of the lyrics.
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Robert Goulet had his biggest pop hit that year, when his single "My Love, Forgive Me" reached No 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No 22 in Canada.
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In 1966, Robert Goulet starred in the television series Blue Light, in which he played a journalist working undercover in Nazi Germany as a spy on behalf of the Allies.
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Robert Goulet starred in an award-winning 1966 television version of Brigadoon, which won five primetime Emmy Awards, Carousel in 1967, and Kiss Me Kate in 1968, opposite his then-wife Carol Lawrence.
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In 1968, Robert Goulet was back on Broadway in the Kander and Ebb musical The Happy Time.
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Robert Goulet won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role.
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Robert Goulet was featured in a two-part episode of the sitcom Alice during the 1981 season, again playing himself.
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The real Goulet appears and sings a duet with the fake Robert Goulet portrayed by Alice.
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Robert Goulet made a cameo appearance as himself in Louis Malle's Atlantic City.
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Robert Goulet recorded the song "Atlantic City " for Applause Records in 1981.
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Robert Goulet performed the Canadian national anthem to open WrestleMania VI at SkyDome in Toronto in 1990.
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Robert Goulet made several appearances on the ABC sitcom Mr Belvedere during its five-year run.
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In 1991, Robert Goulet starred, with John Putch and Hillary Bailey Smith, in the unsold television series pilot Acting Sheriff.
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In 1992, Robert Goulet made an uncredited appearance as the piano player who suffers agonizing injuries in the "Weird Al" Yankovic video for "You Don't Love Me Anymore".
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That same year, Robert Goulet guest-starred as country music singer Eddie Larren in an episode of the TV series In the Heat of the Night, "When the Music Stopped".
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Robert Goulet starred as King Arthur in Camelot in a 1992 National Tour and returned to Broadway in 1993 with the same production.
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Robert Goulet appeared in the commercials for two seasons before ending the run in 1996.
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In 1996, Robert Goulet appeared in Ellen DeGeneres' first starring movie, Mr Wrong, as an insecure TV host; and he returned to Broadway in Moon Over Buffalo, co-starring Lynn Redgrave.
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Robert Goulet provided the singing voice of Wheezy the penguin in the big band-style finale of the 1999 Pixar film Toy Story 2, singing a new version of "You've Got a Friend in Me".
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Robert Goulet appeared in the Disney animated series Recess, as the singing voice for Mikey Blumberg, and in the film Recess: School's Out.
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In 2007, Robert Goulet received the Voice Education Research Awareness Award from The Voice Foundation.
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Robert Goulet sang "God Bless America" on Friday, August 8,2003, when she was sworn in as a citizen of the United States in Las Vegas.
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Robert Goulet then applied for official Canadian citizenship, which was approved by the Canadian government, and became officially registered shortly after his death.
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On September 30,2007, Robert Goulet was hospitalized in Las Vegas, where he was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare but rapidly progressive and potentially fatal condition.
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In 2016, Robert Goulet was portrayed by Broadway star Matt Bogart in episode 4 of HBO's Vinyl as an act for American Century.