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Robert Goulet died this morning, awaiting a lung transplant in Los Angeles. He was 73. Robert Goulet's career spanned the original Broadway cast of Camelot (as Lancelot) to the singing voice of Wheezy the Penguin in Toy Story 2. On stage he was a machine, a fixture in Las Vegas and in Broadway tours of Camelot, Man of La Mancha, South Pacific and more. His last Broadway appearance was in 2005 in the revival of La Cage Aux Folles. He was a fixture in 1970's tv, on the Tonight Show and guest-starring on Fantasy Island, Love Boat and Police Woman to name just a few.
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His face is more famous than his voice, but Robert Goulet recorded a string of popular albums for Columbia during the 1960s, striking the pop charts with several hits and earning a 1962 Grammy Award. Born in 1933 in Lawrence, MA, Goulet was raised in Edmonton, Alberta, where he first studied acting and singing as a teenager. He appeared on Canadian television in the early '50s, but moved to New York and by the end of the decade was fit into a prime Broadway role: Sir Lancelot, in Lerner & Loewe's Camelot (with Julie Andrews and Richard Burton). A starring role in several films proved less than successful....
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Robert Goulet (November 26, 1933-) was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as the only son of French Canadian parents Joseph and Jeannette Goulet. He began singing when he was five years old. At one family gathering, Goulet's aunts and uncles blacked out his face with a burnt cork, put on his mother's white gloves and he entertained everyone with an Al Jolson impersonation. The applause terrified him, and for many years left him with a fear of performing. He would later move to Edmonton, Alberta with his mother where he attended St. Joseph's High School and began studying at Herbert G. Turner�s famous voice school in Edmonton and then later studied at Jean Letourneau�s music school. Soon after, Goulet became a radio announcer for CKUA.
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"Robert Goulet" was raised in Edmonton, Alberta and trained at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. After several years' worth of straw-hat musical appearances on both sides of the border--as well as a stint as a Canadian kiddie-show host named "Timber Tom"--Goulet made his triumphant Broadway debut in 1959 as Lancelot in "Lerner" and Loewe'sCamelot. His signature tune in that show was "If Ever I Would Leave You," which proved an even bigger hit as a record single. On the strength of this song and others like "What Kind of Fool Am I," Goulet earned a Grammy award in 1962.
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In 1991, Goulet starred, along with John Putch and Hillary Bailey Smith, in the unsold television series pilot Acting Sheriff. That same year, he appeared as Quentin Hapsburg, opposite Leslie Nielsen, in the comedy The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear. (He ... had a cameo in the 1982 TV series Police Squad, in the episode "The Butler Did It". The television series spawned The Naked Gun movie series).
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Goulet appeared in South Bend on Thursday to present the 1996 Leighton Lecture to a full house at Century Center. The lecture, an annual event featuring information on health of particular interest to senior citizens, is sponsored by Memorial Hospital's Leighton Center for Senior Health.
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