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Robert Urich
Age: 55 (passed away Apr. 16th, 2002)
Height: 6' 2"
Birth Place: Toronto, Ohio, USA
Born: Dec. 19th, 1946
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BIOGRAPHY: Robert grew up in Toronto, Ohio, where his athletic ability led to a four year football scholarship at Florida State University (FSU). There he earned a B.A. in Communications. He later received an M.A. at Michigan State University and then joined WGN radio in Chicago as a sales account representative. He then briefly appeared as a TV weatherman, and soon realized that he wanted to become an actor.
His big break came in 1972 when Robert played Burt Reynolds (I)'s younger brother in a stage production of "The Rainmaker". Burt and Robert were both alumni of FSU. Burt brought him to California and let him stay in his home until he got his acting break. Burt recommended him to producer Aaron Spelling for the TV series "S.W.A.T." (1975). Although that series lasted only one season, Spelling remembered Robert and later cast him in "Vega$" (1978), which had a longer run.
He was starring in the TV series "The Lazarus Man" (1996) when he was diagnosed with cancer, which caused the cancellation of the series. The cancer went into remission after treatment and he resumed acting again with his role as Captain Jim Kennedy III on "The Love Boat: The Next Wave" (1998).
TRIVIA:
- He sued Castle Rock Television for $1.47 million (the amount he would have received for the second season of his TV series _"The Lazarus Man" (1996)_ (qv)) on April 11, 2000, saying Castle Rock canceled the show because he had cancer. He alleged he did not receive payments from the company. Apparently Urich and his production company entered into an agreement with Castle Rock in 1995 for Urich to act in the "Lazarus Man" pilot. Under the deal he was to be paid $70,000 per episode for the first season and $73,000 an episode the second season. In July 1996 he informed Castle Rock that he had cancer and would have to undergo treatment, but the suit said at no time was Urich unable to perform his duties. Castle Rock terminated the agreement a month later. Urich underwent chemotherapy, radiation treatments and two operations in the mid-1990s to seemingly successfully fight synovial cell sarcoma, a rare cancer that attacks the joints.
- National spokesman for the American Cancer Society in 1998.
- Graduated from Toronto High School in Toronto, Ohio in 1964.
- Brother of 'Tom Urich' (qv)
- Attended Florida State University on a four-year football scholarship where he earned his undergraduate degree in Radio and Television Communications in 1968.
- His final film, _Night of the Wolf (2002) (TV)_ (qv) aired on Animal Planet the same day that he died.
- Bachelor of Arts from Florida State University 1968, Master of Arts from Michigan State University in Communications
- Graduated from Florida State University in 1967 or 1968
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