Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 an...
Known For
Complete Filmography

A Long Way Home
2003
as Jack
Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Night of the Wolf
2002
as Purly Owens
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...

Clover Bend
2002
as Bill Clayton
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 ...

The President's Man: A Line in the Sand
2002
as President Adam Mayfield
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...

Dirty Harry: The Original
2001
as Self - Actor / Host
A retrospective look at the five Dirty Harry films (1971-88), starring Clint Eastwood.

For Love of Olivia
2001
as Horton Roundtree
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...
Miracle on the 17th Green
1999
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...

Final Run
1999
as Glen 'Lucky' Singer
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...

Final Descent
1997
as Capt. Glen (Lucky) Singer
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...

The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
1996
as Mr. Angus Feagan
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...

Captains Courageous
1996
as Capt. Matthew Troop
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...

Jock of the Bushveld
1995
as Rocky Mountain Jack
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...

Spenser: A Savage Place
1995
as Spenser
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...

A Horse for Danny
1995
as Eddie Fortuna
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...

Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland
1995
as Himself
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...

Spenser: The Judas Goat
1994
as Spenser
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...

A Perfect Stranger
1994
as Alex Hale
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 ...

To Save the Children
1994
as Jake Downey
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...

Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
1994
as Spenser
When Spenser (Robert Urich), his psychologist girlfriend, Susan Silverman (Barbara Williams), and his right-hand man, Hawk (Avery Brooks), investigate...

Spenser: Ceremony
1993
as Spenser
Spenser is hired to locate April Kyle, the missing daughter of Harry Kyle, millionaire and candidate for Governor. With the assistance of Hawk, Spense...

Deadly Relations
1993
as Leonard J. Fagot
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....

The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin
1992
as Self - Host
Behind the scenes documentary about the making of Batman Returns.

Revolver
1992
as Nick Suster
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 ...

Double Edge
1992
as Harry Carter
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...

Blind Man's Bluff
1992
as Thomas Booker
A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by finding the murderer.

Survive the Savage Sea
1992
as Jack Carpenter
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 ...

In a Stranger's Hand
1991
as Jack Bauer
Jack Bauer, a workaholic businessman, accidentally gets involved in a case of child kidnapping when he returns a doll found in the subway.

Stranger at My Door
1991
as Joe Fortier
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.

83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1990
as Bradley Burdock
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.
A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder
1990
as Ross Pegler
A suburban housewife thinks she has uncovered a murder plot.

Spooner
1989
as Michael Gillette / Harry Spooner
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...

Night Walk
1989
as Simon
A woman witnesses a murder, reports the crime and become a target for the murderer.

Murder by Night
1989
as Allan Strong
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...

She Knows Too Much
1989
as Harry
In this comedy-drama set in Washington, D.C., an ex-burglar and a dumbbell detective must team up to solve several puzzling murders.

The Comeback
1989
as Scotty Malloy
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...

April Morning
1988
as Joseph Simmons
A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.

Young Again
1986
as Michael Riley
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...

The Defiant Ones
1986
as Johnny 'Joker' Johnson
Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escape chained to each o...

Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
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...

Turk 182!
1985
as Terry Lynch
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...

Scandal Sheet
1985
as Ben Rowan
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...
His Mistress
1984
as Allen Beck
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...

Invitation to Hell
1984
as Matt Winslow
Family man Matt Winslow accepts a new job in Silicon Valley and quickly finds that his associates are obsessed with a mysterious local country club wh...

The Ice Pirates
1984
as Jason
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...

The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can't Take It No More
1983
as Self / Various
Rodney Dangerfield special, featuring stand-up and sketches.

Take Your Best Shot
1982
as Jess Marriner
An actor whose career has gone flat resolves to pursue a more stable occupation while also trying to save his troubled marriage.

Endangered Species
1982
as Ruben Castle
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.

Killing at Hell's Gate
1981
as Charles Duke
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...
Sixty Years of Seduction
1981
as Self - Presenter
Documentary about Hollywood's glamorous stars, with commentary from five actors.

Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
1980
as Rocky Bleier
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 ...

When She Was Bad...
1979
as Bob Morgan
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...

Leave Yesterday Behind
1978
as David Lyle
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...

Bunco
1977
as Walker
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...

The Specialists
1975
as Dr. William Nugent
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...

Killdozer
1974
as Mack McCarthy
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.

Magnum Force
1973
as Officer Mike Grimes
"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...