Robert Urich
Birthday: 1946-12-19
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ohio
Biography: 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.
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The Ice Pirates
In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The ...
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Magnum Force
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who...
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Killdozer
A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bul...
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Night Walk
A woman witnesses a murder, reports the crime and become a target for the murderer....
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Turk 182!
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incu...
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A Horse for Danny
Danny is a smart little girl. She lives at the track where her uncle is a horse trainer. She knows h...
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Captains Courageous
Harvey Cheyne, Jr., second richest person in the world, orphaned and spoiled rotten, encounters a ci...
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The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can't Take It No More
Rodney Dangerfield special, featuring stand-up and sketches....
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Final Descent
An airliner collides with a light plane just after takeoff, causing its elevators to jam in the full...
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Invitation to Hell
Family man Matt Winslow accepts a new job in Silicon Valley and quickly finds that his associates ar...
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83 Hours 'Til Dawn
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours....
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She Knows Too Much
In this comedy-drama set in Washington, D.C., an ex-burglar and a dumbbell detective must team up to...
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Jock of the Bushveld
20-year old Percy Fitzpatrick hears about the Eastern Transvaal gold rush and sets out from Cape Tow...
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Spenser: A Savage Place
Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him out as backup while she investiga...
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Spenser: The Judas Goat
Spenser is hired out by Hugh Dixon to track down the killers of his wife and daughters. He and Hawk ...
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Spenser: Ceremony
Spenser is hired to locate April Kyle, the missing daughter of Harry Kyle, millionaire and candidate...
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Young Again
A 40-year-old bachelor gets his wish to be 17 again, and he goes back to high school where he romanc...
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Clover Bend
When an L.A. cop gets called to a crime scene on his anniversary, he is forced into a shootout that ...
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Night of the Wolf
Claire and her teenaged son, Jesse, along with their friend and ranch foreman Purly Owens, work the ...
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A Perfect Stranger
A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls...
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Murder by Night
A man inadvertently gets caught near a car explosion, and after he recovers from his injuries realiz...
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Survive the Savage Sea
After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertso...
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Deadly Relations
Leonard Fagot has four daughters and loves them so much, that he usurps his control over them. He le...
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Miracle on the 17th Green
A 50 year old adman (Robert Urich) loses his job. Rather than facing trying to find a new job, he de...
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In a Stranger's Hand
Jack Bauer, a workaholic businessman, accidentally gets involved in a case of child kidnapping when ...
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The Specialists
Inspectors for the U.S. Public Health Service try to track down the cause of a rash of mysterious ai...
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The Defiant Ones
Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transpor...
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The President's Man: A Line in the Sand
A counterterrorism specialist is assigned by the President to track down a terrorist who is suspecte...
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For Love of Olivia
To protect his wife's "secret", a small-town Southern lawyer in the 1960s decides to defend a young ...
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Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
When Spenser (Robert Urich), his psychologist girlfriend, Susan Silverman (Barbara Williams), and hi...
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Take Your Best Shot
An actor whose career has gone flat resolves to pursue a more stable occupation while also trying to...
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Scandal Sheet
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foun...
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The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin
Behind the scenes documentary about the making of Batman Returns....
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Stranger at My Door
A cop on the run from his mob boss "in-laws" tries to start a new life on a deserted farm with his t...
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Leave Yesterday Behind
A happy-go-lucky veterinary student, paralyzed for life in a college polo meet, finds love with a yo...
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Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland
Robert Urich, the legendary Jim Street in 'S.W.A.T.', is the host of this voyage around the UFO's an...
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Final Run
The Grand Royale is a new high-tech passenger train with a computerized engine. On its maiden voyage...
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Endangered Species
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a my...
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A Long Way Home
Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse....
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To Save the Children
Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of ...
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His Mistress
This is how it usually happens. Some older man is unhappy in his marriage and meets a jolly young sw...
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Killing at Hell's Gate
A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing one o...
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The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
When an unemployed Detroit man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, his three children are dete...
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Bunco
Tom Selleck is a member of the "Bunco" squad the squad in charge of nabbing con men, cheats, and swi...
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Blind Man's Bluff
A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by findin...
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The Comeback
Scotty Malloy is a former NFL football player who travels around the world without a care. He decide...
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Double Edge
In this fast paced action-thriller, daytime's top star Susan Lucci plays two roles: both a crack FBI...
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Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a r...
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A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder
A suburban housewife thinks she has uncovered a murder plot....
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Spooner
An escaped convict starts a new life as a Texas high school English teacher and wrestling coach, att...
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When She Was Bad...
Stressed by a recent move and being a stay-at-home mom, Teeny takes out her bottled-up rage on her d...
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Dirty Harry: The Original
A retrospective look at the five Dirty Harry films (1971-88), starring Clint Eastwood....
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Revolver
Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down h...
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Sixty Years of Seduction
Documentary about Hollywood's glamorous stars, with commentary from five actors....
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