Editing Robert Urich (section)

==Early life==
Urich was born and raised in [[Toronto, Ohio]], the son of John Paul and Cecilia Monica (née Halpate) Urich.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://birth-records.mooseroots.com/l/6981649/Robert-Michael-Urich| title=Robert Michael Urich (b. 1946)| website=birth-records.mooseroots.com| access-date=December 25, 2017| archive-url=https://archive.today/20150217203940/http://birth-records.mooseroots.com/l/6981649/Robert-Michael-Urich| archive-date=February 17, 2015| url-status=dead}}</ref> He was of [[Rusyns|Rusyn (Ukrainian)]] and [[Slovaks|Slovak]] extraction and raised [[Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church|Byzantine Catholic]].<ref name=people>{{cite news| url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20136877,00.html| title=Bright Knight| journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]| date=April 29, 2002| quote=I was a very uptight Catholic boy who played by the rules| access-date=August 12, 2010| first=Michael A.| last=Lipton}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ROBERT URICH |url=http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/fame/urich.htm |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=www.carpatho-rusyn.org}}</ref> An excellent high school athlete, Urich attended [[Florida State University]] on a [[American football|football]] scholarship (FSU is where he also met classmate Burt Reynolds). He played backup center during the 1965–66 football season, receiving only minimal playing time, and was a member of the [[Lambda Chi Alpha]] fraternity. In 1968, he earned a bachelor's degree in Radio and Television Communications. He went on to [[Michigan State University]] and earned a [[master's degree]] in Broadcast Research and Management. He took voice lessons at the University of Chicago music school. 

Urich explained in a 1997 interview with Tom Snyder that he worked in sales in [[Chicago]] at [[WGN-TV]] for $150 a week and was fired after they discovered he was moonlighting. Urich had also worked briefly as a weatherman.<ref name="cnn">{{cite web| url=http://edition.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/16/obit.urich/| title=Actor Robert Urich dead at 55| date=April 16, 2002| work=CNN| access-date=January 4, 2013}}</ref>