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.
Killing at Hell's Gate
1981
Magnum Force
1973
The President's Man: A Line in the Sand
2002
Batman Returns: The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin
1992
The Comeback
1989
Scandal Sheet
1985
Final Run
1999
Spenser: A Savage Place
1995
The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
1996
Deadly Relations
1993
Jock of the Bushveld
1995
Double Edge
1992
Spenser: Ceremony
1993
The Ice Pirates
1984
She Knows Too Much
1989
Clover Bend
2002
Young Again
1986
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Turk 182!
1985
Killdozer
1974
Blind Man's Bluff
1992
Bunco
1977
To Save the Children
1994
Survive the Savage Sea
1992
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1990
Final Descent
1997
Night Walk
1989
A Perfect Stranger
1994
Spenser: The Judas Goat
1994
In a Stranger's Hand
1991
Leave Yesterday Behind
1978
Spooner
1989
Endangered Species
1982
April Morning
1988
Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
1994
Invitation to Hell
1984
The Specialists
1975
When She Was Bad...
1979
Night of the Wolf
2002