1. Robert Michael Urich was an American film, television, and stage actor and television producer.
27 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 that he never knew about his nomination and win.
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In 1996, Robert Urich starred in the television series The Lazarus Man.
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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.
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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 took voice lessons at the University of Chicago music school.
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Robert Urich explained in a 1997 interview with Tom Snyder that he worked in sales in Chicago at WGN-TV for $150 a week and was fired after they discovered he was moonlighting.
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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 his diagnosis with synovial sarcoma, a rare cancer affecting soft tissue.
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Robert Urich received an award from the John Wayne Cancer Institute and the Gilda Radner Courage Award for his cancer awareness efforts.
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Additionally, Robert Urich donated $125,000, his winnings from an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
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Robert Urich was declared cancer-free in 1998 and became the national spokesperson for the American Cancer Society that year.
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In November 2001, Robert Urich shared in an interview that doctors had found lumps in his body, but a new medication had successfully treated them.
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Robert Urich's body was cremated, and his ashes interred at the family's vacation home in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
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Robert Urich had cancer and was an ovarian cancer survivor.