Robert Urich
Born: 1946-12-19
• Toronto, Ohio
Robert Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was an American actor. He played the starring role in the television series Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988) and Vega$ (1978–1981). He also appeared in other television series over the years including: S.W.A.T. (1975), Soap (1977), and The Lazarus Man (1996), as well as in several feature films including Turk 182!, The Ice Pirates, and Magnum Force. Urich died in 2002 in Thousand Oaks, California. The actor announced in 1996 that he was suffering from synovial cell sarcoma, a rare cancer that attacks the body's joints, for which he underwent several treatments during the last years of his life.
Filmography
A Long Way Home
Night of the Wolf
Clover Bend
The President's Man: A Line in the Sand
Dirty Harry: The Original
For Love of Olivia
Miracle on the 17th Green
Final Run
Final Descent
The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
Captains Courageous
Jock of the Bushveld
Spenser: A Savage Place
A Horse for Danny
Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland
Spenser: The Judas Goat
A Perfect Stranger
To Save the Children
Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
Spenser: Ceremony
Deadly Relations
Batman Returns: The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin
Revolver
Double Edge
Blind Man's Bluff
Survive the Savage Sea
In a Stranger's Hand
Stranger at My Door
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
No Image
A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder
Spooner
Night Walk
Murder by Night
She Knows Too Much
The Comeback
April Morning
Young Again
The Defiant Ones
Night of 100 Stars II
Turk 182!
Scandal Sheet
No Image
His Mistress
Invitation to Hell
The Ice Pirates
The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can't Take It No More
Country Gold
Take Your Best Shot
Endangered Species
Killing at Hell's Gate
No Image
Sixty Years of Seduction
Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
When She Was Bad...
Leave Yesterday Behind
Bunco
The Specialists
Killdozer
Magnum Force