1. Robert Reed later reprised his role of Mike Brady on several of the reunion programs.
34 Facts About Robert Reed
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Robert Reed attended the West Division School in Community Consolidated School District 62 until 1939.
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Robert Reed's father worked for the government, and his mother was a homemaker.
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Robert Reed spent his early childhood years in Navasota, Texas and Shawnee, Oklahoma, attending Woodrow Wilson Grade School before the family moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma.
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Robert Reed took to the stage, where he performed and sang.
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Robert Reed worked as a radio announcer at local radio stations and wrote and produced radio dramas.
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Robert Reed graduated from Muskogee Central in 1950, and enrolled at Northwestern University to study drama.
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Robert Reed performed in more than eight plays in college, all with leading roles.
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Robert Reed later studied for one term at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
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Robert Reed later joined the off-Broadway theatre group "The Shakespearewrights", and played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and had a lead role in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Robert Reed eventually adopted the stage name Robert Reed and moved to Los Angeles in the late 1950s to further pursue his acting career.
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Robert Reed made his first guest-starring appearance in an episode of Father Knows Best in 1959.
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Marshall was one of the founding members of the Actors Studio in New York; around this time, Robert Reed himself became a member of the Studio, and remained a member for the next 30 years.
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Robert Reed was the producers' second choice for the role of Mike Brady after Gene Hackman was rejected because he was largely unknown at the time.
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Robert Reed felt that acting in the often silly program was beneath his training as a serious Shakespearean actor.
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Robert Reed regularly presented Schwartz with hand-written memoranda detailing why a certain motivation did not make sense or why it was wrong to combine elements of farce and satire.
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Robert Reed later claimed that he originally accepted the role for financial reasons, but tried to remain positive despite his creative differences with Schwartz by reminding himself the series was primarily about the children.
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Robert Reed masked his dissatisfaction in front of the camera, always performing professionally without any indication of his unhappiness.
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Robert Reed directed several episodes of The Brady Bunch during its run.
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Robert Reed won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Pat Caddison, a doctor who comes out as transgender, in a two-part episode of Medical Center in 1975.
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Robert Reed appeared in the television film The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, and the miniseries Roots.
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Robert Reed was again nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in Rich Man, Poor Man and Roots.
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Robert Reed guest-starred on "The Love Boat" Season 2 Episode 5, which aired on October 20,1978, Wonder Woman, Hawaii Five-O, Charlie's Angels, Galactica 1980 and Vega$.
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In 1981, Robert Reed won the lead role of Dr Adam Rose on the medical drama Nurse.
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Robert Reed made multiple appearances on Fantasy Island, Hunter, The Love Boat and Murder, She Wrote.
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In 1976, Robert Reed reprised the role of Mike Brady in the variety show The Brady Bunch Hour, a role he openly embraced because it afforded him the opportunity to sing and dance.
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Also in 1989, Robert Reed reteamed with his Brady Bunch co-star Henderson in a guest-starring role on the sitcom Free Spirit.
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Robert Reed clashed with producer Sherwood Schwartz over the show's writing, which Robert Reed found substandard.
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Robert Reed made his last onscreen appearance in an April 1992 episode of Jake and the Fatman, "Ain't Misbehavin'".
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Shortly before his death, Robert Reed appeared in the touring production of Love Letters, opposite Betsy Palmer, and taught classes on Shakespeare at UCLA.
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In November 1991, Robert Reed was diagnosed with colon lymphoma, a rare form of colorectal cancer.
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Robert Reed went the way he wanted to, without publicity.
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Robert Reed died on May 12,1992, at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, at age 59.
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Robert Reed is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie, Illinois.