Happy Birthday: Robert Urich (1946–2002)

Robert Urich (1946–2002)

Born: December 19, 1946 in Toronto, Ohio, USA
Died: April 16, 2002 (age 55) in Thousand Oaks, California, USA

Married to: Heather Menzies-Urich (21 November 1975 – 16 April 2002) (his death) (3 children)
Barbara Rucker (1971 – 1974) (divorced)

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can’t always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it. (Wisconsin speech, 2001)

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can’t hide who you are. It is why people are always coming up to me, not to talk about my shows but about their families, their pets. They obviously feel comfortable with me.

I think my longevity has a lot to do with where I come from — a blue-collar town…