Robert Urich
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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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 19.95 |
| Birthday | 1946-12-19 |
| Place of Birth | Toronto, Ohio |
| Also Known As |
1984
The Ice Pirates
5.6/169
In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to...
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The Ice Pirates
1973
Magnum Force
7.125/997
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When sha...
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Magnum Force
1974
Killdozer
5.4/42
A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage.
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Killdozer
1985
Turk 182!
5.8/58
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, h...
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Turk 182!
1995
A Horse for Danny
9.2/10
Danny is a smart little girl. She lives at the track where her uncle is a horse trainer. She knows her uncle needs just one great horse to make his na...
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A Horse for Danny
1996
Captains Courageous
6.2/20
Harvey Cheyne, Jr., second richest person in the world, orphaned and spoiled rotten, encounters a cigar and the sea on his way to England for boarding...
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Captains Courageous
1983
The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can't Take It No More
6.5/2
Rodney Dangerfield special, featuring stand-up and sketches.
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The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can't Take It No More
1997
Final Descent
5.1/17
An airliner collides with a light plane just after takeoff, causing its elevators to jam in the full climb position. It will crash as soon as the fuel...
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Final Descent
1984
Invitation to Hell
4.9/28
Matt Winslow and his family move to California where they settle in an affluent community where people enjoy good life. After a private tour of an exc...
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Invitation to Hell
1982
Endangered Species
5.1/19
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.
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Endangered Species
1990
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
6.8/8
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.
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83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1989
She Knows Too Much
7.8/2
In this comedy-drama set in Washington, D.C., an ex-burglar and a dumbbell detective must team up to solve several puzzling murders.
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She Knows Too Much
1988
April Morning
5.7/10
A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.
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April Morning
1995
Spenser: A Savage Place
0/0
Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him out as backup while she investigates a credit card fraud ring that might be operati...
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Spenser: A Savage Place
1993
Spenser: Ceremony
5/1
Spenser is hired to locate April Kyle, the missing daughter of Harry Kyle, millionaire and candidate for Governor. With the assistance of Hawk, Spense...
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Spenser: Ceremony
1994
Spenser: The Judas Goat
5/1
Spenser is hired out by Hugh Dixon to track down the killers of his wife and daughters. He and Hawk are drawn into a huge plot involving assassination...
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Spenser: The Judas Goat
1986
Young Again
6.2/25
A 40-year-old bachelor gets his wish to be 17 again, and he goes back to high school where he romances the daughter of the woman he dated in high scho...
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Young Again
2002
Clover Bend
4.3/3
When an L.A. cop gets called to a crime scene on his anniversary, he is forced into a shootout that leaves both a criminal and his hostage dead. Soon...
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Clover Bend
2002
Night of the Wolf
7/2
Claire and her teenaged son, Jesse, along with their friend and ranch foreman Purly Owens, work the cattle ranch that Claire once shared with her husb...
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Night of the Wolf
1994
A Perfect Stranger
4.8/9
A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who...
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A Perfect Stranger
1989
Murder by Night
5/2
A man inadvertently gets caught near a car explosion, and after he recovers from his injuries realizes that he has amnesia. Soon evidence begins to mo...
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Murder by Night
1992
Survive the Savage Sea
4.8/7
After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spend 37 days adrift in the Pacific with...
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Survive the Savage Sea
1993
Deadly Relations
4.3/3
Leonard Fagot has four daughters and loves them so much, that he usurps his control over them. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date....
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Deadly Relations
1999
Miracle on the 17th Green
6/1
A 50 year old adman (Robert Urich) loses his job. Rather than facing trying to find a new job, he decides to try to make it on the senior golf tour. T...
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Miracle on the 17th Green
1991
In a Stranger's Hand
5.8/6
Jack Bauer, a workaholic businessman, accidentally gets involved in a case of child kidnapping when he returns a doll found in the subway.
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In a Stranger's Hand
2002
The President's Man: A Line in the Sand
4.7/25
A counterterrorism specialist is assigned by the President to track down a terrorist who is suspected of planning to set off a nuclear device in the U...
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The President's Man: A Line in the Sand
1986
The Defiant Ones
4.2/5
Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escapechained to each ot...
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The Defiant Ones
1994
Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
5/1
When Spenser (Robert Urich), his psychologist girlfriend, Susan Silverman (Barbara Williams), and his right-hand man, Hawk (Avery Brooks), investigate...
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Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
1982
Take Your Best Shot
6/1
An actor whose career has gone flat resolves to pursue a more stable occupation while also trying to save his troubled marriage.
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Take Your Best Shot
1985
Scandal Sheet
5/1
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoho...
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Scandal Sheet
1992
The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin
6.2/13
Behind the scenes documentary about the making of Batman Returns.
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The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin
1991
Stranger at My Door
5.7/3
A cop on the run from his mob boss "in-laws" tries to start a new life on a deserted farm with his two children. But things are not that easy.
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Stranger at My Door
1978
Leave Yesterday Behind
6.2/6
A happy-go-lucky veterinary student, paralyzed for life in a college polo meet, finds love with a young woman who leaves her fiancée to help him overc...
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Leave Yesterday Behind
1995
Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland
7/1
Robert Urich, the legendary Jim Street in 'S.W.A.T.', is the host of this voyage around the UFO's and its mystery. From New Tomorrowland, in Disneylan...
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Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland
1999
Final Run
5.3/25
The Grand Royale is a new high-tech passenger train with a computerized engine. On its maiden voyage, it suffers a severe technical failure, killing t...
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Final Run
2003
A Long Way Home
4/3
Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
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A Long Way Home
1994
To Save the Children
6/4
Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of his last assignment. His myth of rural bliss is sh...
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To Save the Children
1984
His Mistress
0/0
This is how it usually happens. Some older man is unhappy in his marriage and meets a jolly young sweetheart in which he rediscovers his own youth. He...
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His Mistress
1981
Killing at Hell's Gate
6/1
A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing one of the rafters in a drunken session of target pract...
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Killing at Hell's Gate
1996
The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
4.8/5
When an unemployed Detroit man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, his three children are determined to get him out of jail in time for Christma...
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The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
1977
Bunco
0/0
Tom Selleck is a member of the "Bunco" squad the squad in charge of nabbing con men, cheats, and swindlers. Most of their time is spent dealing with p...
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Bunco
1992
Blind Man's Bluff
10/1
A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by finding the murderer.
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Blind Man's Bluff
1989
The Comeback
6/1
Scotty Malloy is a former NFL football player who travels around the world without a care. He decides to come back to Minneapolis to settle down and s...
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The Comeback
1992
Double Edge
5/1
In this fast paced action-thriller, daytime's top star Susan Lucci plays two roles: both a crack FBI agent and the elusive killer-for-hire who she sta...
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Double Edge
1980
Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
5/1
Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then...
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Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
1990
A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder
5.5/2
A suburban housewife thinks she has uncovered a murder plot.
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A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder
1989
Spooner
6.7/3
An escaped convict starts a new life as a Texas high school English teacher and wrestling coach, attempting to turn a fledgling team into a championsh...
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Spooner
1979
When She Was Bad...
5/5
Stressed by a recent move and being a stay-at-home mom, Teeny takes out her bottled-up rage on her daughter Robbie. Only the help of her friends, fami...
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When She Was Bad...
2001
Dirty Harry: The Original
7.7/10
A retrospective look at the five Dirty Harry films (1971-88), starring Clint Eastwood.
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Dirty Harry: The Original
1992
Revolver
0/0
Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down his assailant and in the process, uncovers a major...
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Revolver
1981
Sixty Years of Seduction
0/0
Documentary about Hollywood's glamorous stars, with commentary from five actors.
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Sixty Years of Seduction
1989
Night Walk
5/1
A woman witnesses a murder, reports the crime and become a target for the murderer.
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Night Walk
1975
The Specialists
0/0
Inspectors for the U.S. Public Health Service try to track down the cause of a rash of mysterious ailments suddenly appearing among the general popula...
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The Specialists
2001
For Love of Olivia
0/0
To protect his wife's "secret", a small-town Southern lawyer in the 1960s decides to defend a young man accused of murder, all while running for Congr...
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For Love of Olivia
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
8/2
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
1995
Jock of the Bushveld
10/1
20-year old Percy Fitzpatrick hears about the Eastern Transvaal gold rush and sets out from Cape Town in hopes of finding fortune. He becomes a transp...
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