# Camelot mourns tonight \[Robert Goulet dead at 73\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649 "2007-10-31T00:42:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/1 "2007-10-31T00:42:41Z")
Robert Goulet dead at 73. What a huge voice he had. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/2 "2007-10-31T00:47:25Z")
_But if I’d ever leave you, It couldn’t be in autumn. How I’d leave in autumn I never will know. I’ve seen how you sparkle When fall nips the air. I know you in autumn And I must be there._ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/3 "2007-10-31T01:13:26Z")
Not Bob Goulet! ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/4 "2007-10-31T01:34:50Z")
Well, I swann. I hate to hear that. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/5 "2007-10-31T01:38:25Z")
Very well. Begin the thawing of Jim Nabors. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/6 "2007-10-31T01:43:39Z")
I wasn’t old enough to know him in his classic roles (Camelot) - and I first came to know him in Naked Gun 2 1/2… And I’m ok with that. He was great in everything I’ve seen him in, including that episode of The Simpsons he guested on and those Emerald Nuts commercials (so much for that ad campaign, huh?). Very sad news. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/7 "2007-10-31T03:19:28Z")
My first exposure to him was in an opera on _Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood_. So, I know he musta been quite an upstanding guy. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/8 "2007-10-31T03:25:17Z")
Elvis is shooting him in heaven now. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/9 "2007-10-31T03:28:56Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Very well. Begin the thawing of Jim Nabors. [/QUOTE] Clap. Clap. Clap. My Robert Goulet story: I was an assistant-assistant-assistant-assistant stage manager for Camelot a couple of years ago when he was touring as King Arthur. I had very little contact with him, but the greatest thing about him was that he had a ‘handler.’ And not the type of person who handles the paparazzi; the type of person who handles wildlife. This guy would take Goulet by the shoulders and march him to where he was supposed to be. If he had an entrance, the handler would take the glass of wine out of his hand, shove him onto the stage, walk around to the wing where his exit would be, hand the wine back to him when he got off stage, and then march him to his next entrance. This always surprised me, because Goulet never seemed like he needed to be steered everywhere. He was just as with-it as anyone else on the cast, and freakishly charming. I’m serious: the 20-something girls at my theatre were swooning over him, and he was freakin’ 70 years old! ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/10 "2007-10-31T03:55:22Z")
My mom got to see him, Richard Burton, and Julie Andrews when Camelot premiered on Broadway. I’ve always envied that. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/11 "2007-10-31T12:14:33Z")
His most recent job that I thought was really cool- he provided the singing voice for Mikey in the Disney cartoon RECESS. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/12 "2007-10-31T14:34:47Z")
Thank god! Now he won’t be messing up my office during the afternoon low-energy periods! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/13 "2007-10-31T14:37:54Z")
Obviously, my thread was way after this one. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/14 "2007-10-31T14:40:32Z")
Met him once. He was a surprisingly small fellow. Seemed like a nice gent, though. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/15 "2007-10-31T17:18:29Z")
I’ve had the biggest crush in him since I was four because of the _Camelot_ cast album. Along with Han Solo, he was my earliest crush. I saw him play King Arthur in a touring production back in 1993, which made me very happy. I’m more upset by this news than I probably should be. Man, I’m having a lousy day. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/16 "2007-10-31T17:47:10Z")
I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for Robert Goulet since my sophomore year in high school about 30 years ago when a girl told me that I looked like him. I don’t, by any stretch of the imagination, but that compliment’s kept me going over many a rough patch. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/17 "2007-10-31T18:12:52Z")
[Will Farrell]Gouuuuuuuuulet![/Will Farrell] ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/18 "2007-10-31T20:51:46Z")
Anybody else remember _Gay Purree_? Goulet provided the voice for one of the cats, the hero I think. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/19 "2007-10-31T22:05:46Z")
Robert Goulet, Robert Goulet, my god Robert Goulet! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649/20 "2007-10-31T22:30:55Z")
Mom loved the _Camelot_ soundtrack. She saw in Chicago, in the 60s. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelot-mourns-tonight-robert-goulet-dead-at-73/424649.md?page=2)