Robert Goulet dies at 73.

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LOS ANGELES - Robert Goulet, the handsome, big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in "Camelot" launched an award-winning stage and recording career, has died. He was 73.

The singer died Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles hospital while awaiting a lung transplant, said Goulet spokesman Norm Johnson.

He had been awaiting a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being found last month to have a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis.

Goulet had remained in good spirits even as he waited for the transplant, said Vera Goulet, his wife of 25 years.

"Just watch my vocal cords," she said he told doctors before they inserted a breathing tube.

The Massachusetts-born Goulet, who spent much of his youth in Canada, gained stardom in 1960 with "Camelot," the Lerner and Loewe musical that starred Richard Burton as King Arthur and Julie Andrews as his Queen Guenevere.

Goulet played Sir Lancelot, the arrogant French knight who falls in love with Guenevere.

He became a hit with American TV viewers with appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and other programs. Sullivan labeled him the "American baritone from Canada," where he had already been a popular star in the 1950s, hosting his own show called "General Electric's Showtime."

 
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Award-winning singer-actor Robert Goulet died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 73.

The popular performer passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was awaiting a lung transplant, his spokesman Norm Johnson tells the Associated Press.

A Las Vegas resident, Goulet experienced shortness of breath on Sept. 30 and was rushed to a local hospital, where he was diagnosed with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. He was subsequently transferred to Cedars-Sinai in critical condition.

In the hospital, his wife, Vera, said the singer was in a good mood. "Just watch my vocal cords," she said he told doctors before they inserted a breathing tube.

Born Nov. 26, 1933, in Lawrence, Mass., Goulet rose to stardom as Lancelot in the 1960 Broadway musical Camelot. He went on to become a top-selling recording artist, TV star and, eventually, a screen actor, with roles in Atlantic City, Beetlejuice and the animated Toy Story 2.

He rarely returned to Broadway, but won a Tony award in 1968 for best actor in a musical for his role in The Happy Time. He also won the best new artist Grammy in 1962.

His last performance was on Sept. 20 in Syracuse, N.Y., where he was backed by a 15-piece orchestra during the one-man show A Man and His Music.

Goulet is survived by his third wife, Vera, and three children from his previous two marriages.

 

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