Robert Michael Urich was an American film, television, and stage actor, and television producer.
26 Facts About Robert Urich
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Robert Urich won a CableACE Award for his work on the series.
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Robert Urich was awarded a Golden Boot Award for his work in Western television series and films.
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Robert Urich revealed on The Late Show, with David Letterman, he never knew about his nomination and win.
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Robert Urich sought treatment for his illness while continuing his career and worked to raise money for cancer research.
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Robert Urich was declared cancer free in 1998 and returned to television in the UPN series, Love Boat: The Next Wave.
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Robert Urich was born and raised in Toronto, Ohio, the son of John Paul and Cecilia Monica Robert Urich.
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Robert Urich was of Rusyn and Slovak extraction and raised Byzantine Catholic and Roman Catholic.
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An excellent high school athlete, Robert Urich attended Florida State University on a football scholarship.
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Robert Urich went on to Michigan State University and earned a master's degree in Broadcast Research and Management.
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Robert Urich then worked as a salesman in Chicago at WGN-TV.
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Robert Urich made his film debut later that same year opposite Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry film Magnum Force playing a vigilante motorcycle-patrol police officer.
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Robert Urich portrayed the series' lead character, Dan Tanna, a private detective who solves various crimes in Las Vegas.
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Robert Urich played the title character who was a former CIA agent turned oceanographer.
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In 1985, Robert Urich co-starred in the film Turk 182, although it was not a commercial success.
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In 1985, Robert Urich returned to episodic television as the title character in Spenser: For Hire.
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Robert Urich reprised the role in several television films after it was canceled: Spenser: Ceremony, Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes, Spenser: The Judas Goat, and Spenser: A Savage Place.
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Robert Urich won a CableACE Award for his work on the series.
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In July 1996, Robert Urich announced he had been diagnosed with synovial sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that attacks soft tissue.
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Robert Urich continued working while undergoing treatment for his illness and became an advocate for finding a cure for cancer.
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Robert Urich won an award from the John Wayne Cancer Institute and the Gilda Radner Courage Award for his work raising cancer awareness.
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Robert Urich donated the $125,000 he won when he appeared on an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
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In November 2001, Robert Urich revealed in an interview that his doctors had discovered lumps in his body but "a wonder drug had cleared them up".
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Robert Urich was cremated and his ashes were buried on the grounds of his family's vacation home in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
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Robert Urich had cancer and was an ovarian cancer survivor.
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Menzies-Robert Urich continued to work for the center, and died from brain cancer on Christmas Eve, December 24,2017, surrounded by their three children.