All movies earnings listed below. His sexuality was gay and held it top secret to the world never to doom his profession. We estimated annual income around $470,588 and Sponsorships/Endorsement quantity is normally $104,575. Early Lifestyle (Childhood): Reed was created in Chicago,in the center of Highland Recreation area, Illinois as a boy of Helen and John Robert Rietz, Sr.
| Full Name | Robert Reed |
| Died | May 12, 1992, Pasadena, California, United States |
| Height | 1.9 m |
| Profession | Actor, Television Director |
| Education | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Northwestern University |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Marilyn Rosenberg |
| Children | Karen Rietz |
| Parents | John Robert Rietz, Sr., Helen Teaverbaugh |
| Awards | Hugo Award for Best Novella |
| Music Groups | Magenta, Cyan, Tsunami Bomb, Willow's Song, Sanctuary, Part 1, Pirate Section |
| Nominations | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance By A Supporting Actor |
| Movies | The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, A Very Brady Christmas, Rich Man, Poor Man, Bloodlust!, SST: Death Flight, Pray for the Wildcats, Hurry Sundown, The Maltese Bippy, The Secret Night Caller, Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story, Nightmare in Badham County, The Man Who Could Talk to Kids, Star!, Quincy's Quest, The Defenders: The Traitor |
| TV Shows | The Bradys, Search for Tomorrow, Nurse, The Brady Bunch Hour, Mannix, The Brady Bunch, The Defenders, Roots |
| # | Fact |
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He was known to be a very private person. |
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Frequently complained about the difficulty of the scripts of The Brady Bunch (1969). |
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Acting mentor was E.G. Marshall. |
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Acting mentor and friends of Susan Olsen and Barry Williams. |
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Father of Karen Rietz, born October 1, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. |
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His mother, Helen Rietz, died in 2002. |
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Attended fifth and sixth grades at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in 1942 and 1943. |
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His The Brady Bunch (1969) co-star Maureen McCormick, who played his daughter Marcia, once confessed in an interview that she had a crush on him in real-life. |
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The epitaph on his tombstone reads: "Good Night, Sweet Prince." This is taken from the final line of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". |
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Remained good friends with Barry Williams and Susan Olsen, among other cast members, during and after The Brady Bunch (1969). |
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He had 9 hobbies: animals, fishing, photography, traveling, Shakespearean poetry, swimming, collecting clothes, dining and gardening. |
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His mother and daughter both refused to attend his memorial. |
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His father, John Sr., was a government worker and his mother Helen was a housewife. |
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Moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma, with his family, when he was 14. |
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Was invited to join the group of fellow students from East Pennsylvania, where it was under the direction of Alvina Krause, who was his acting coach. |
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Was a Shakespearean, Broadway actor. |
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He was good friends with: Florence Henderson, George Maharis, Anne Haney, Penny Fuller, E.G. Marshall and Bonnie Hellman. |
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Had purchased a home in Pasadena, California, after the cancellation of The Brady Bunch (1969), in 1974. He moved his parents under his wing, when they left Oklahoma. |
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Confided in Florence Henderson, about his feud with his own mother, just several months before his death. |
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A year before his death, he was a college teacher. |
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Always said yes to a reunion movie or special for The Brady Bunch (1969). |
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He was the producers' second choice for the role of Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch (1969), after Gene Hackman was rejected. |
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Graduated from Central High School in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1950. |
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During hiatus, his The Brady Bunch (1969) co-star, Barry Williams, was introduced by Reed's teacher, Lee Strasberg, for poetry at London's Royal Academy. |
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His The Brady Bunch (1969) co-star Susan Olsen became friends with his real-life daughter, Karen Rietz, who made a guest appearance on one episode, when she was in the 9th grade. Despite her friendship with Reed's daughter, there was no father and daughter connection until Karen became an adult. |
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His father, John Rietz Sr., died in 1975. |
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Was very happy when The Brady Bunch (1969) was canceled because of low ratings. |
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He grew up with his parents on a farm where they raised cattle and turkeys. |
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In 1985 he sold the house on South Arroyo St. in Pasadena, California, and bought a Spanish-style house on Stoneridge Ave. |
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Close friend of Anne Haney. |
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When he became ill, the fact that he'd had a stage name allowed him some privacy in his treatment. Prescriptions were filled under his real name Rietz, and the media never took notice. |
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Mike Brady, Reed's character on The Brady Bunch (1969), was ranked #14 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue]. |
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Member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. |
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Replaced Robert Redford on Broadway in Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park." |
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Met wife Marilyn Rosenberg while both were college students and drama majors at Northwestern University.The marriage lasted only 5 years, producing a daughter, 'Caroline Reed (I)' . |
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An only child, he attended high school in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where, at age 17, he wrote and produced for local radio stations and sometimes worked as an announcer. |
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Lived outside of the Beverly Hills scene in Pasadena. |
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His Shakespearean background included roles in "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as part of an off-Broadway company called "The Shakespearewrights." Toward the end of his life he taught a course in Shakespearean acting at UCLA. |
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Frequently walked off the set of The Brady Bunch (1969), due to arguments with series creator/producer Sherwood Schwartz. In addition, he sent voluminous memos to Schwartz, detailing his unhappiness with the writing and directing on the show. Schwartz put up with this only because Reed's instincts usually turned out to be right. (Reed would eventually direct a handful of episodes himself.) |
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Became something of a surrogate father to the children of The Brady Bunch (1969), taking them on trips on weekends and during the series' summer hiatus. For their part, the now-adult actors continue to speak of Reed affectionately. |
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Only cast member of The Brady Bunch (1969) to miss two episodes. The first was The Brady Bunch: Goodbye, Alice, Hello (1972). He was written out of the second one, The Brady Bunch: The Hair-Brained Scheme (1974), because he strongly disapproved of the script, which had Greg's hair turning orange because of a cheap hair tonic. |
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Harboured his illness from the rest of his The Brady Bunch (1969) brood for years. He finally contacted co-star Florence Henderson days before his death and requested that she inform the rest of the cast of his condition. |
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In one of his last interviews,he revealed that he actually detested "The Brady Bunch" (1969)and that his role as Mike Brady embarrassed him. |
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Transferred to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England, UK. |
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Attended Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois). |
| # | Quote |
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[Regarding the fights he had on The Brady Bunch (1969)] about better scripts] We fought over the scripts. Always over the scripts. The producer, Sherwood Schwartz, had done Gilligan's Island (1964) . . . Just gag lines. That was what "The Brady Bunch" would have been if I hadn't protested. |
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That was what got me The Defenders (1961) job. There were literally hundreds of young actors around, and the reason the producers looked at that particular film was because they were looking for a young lawyer, and they knew that there was a young actor playing a lawyer in it. Obviously, they couldn't see everyone. So that was my lucky break. |
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[on why older, more familiar actors are not getting much work] The latest at home [in the United States] is for the networks to go for new faces. Most known actors are getting too expensive. |
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[In 1983] The networks are run by very bright people in most cases, but people who are totally outside the realm of theatre. They come from business and advertising and banking, and even lumber. |
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[In 1978] We're dealing with a social problem of enormous dimensions, not little kids who say, "All right, if you won't let me do such-and-such, I'll run away". |
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I'm not an expert in this field - anymore than I was a slave owner in Roots (1977) or the father of six children in The Brady Bunch (1969). But despite my lack of expertise in the area, I find it an intriguing social phenomenon and one worthy of study. Did you know there were 2 million runaways last year? |
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[Why he didn't complain about working on television] It takes a better actor. In movies, you have the best producers, best directors, lot of time . . . in TV, it's six or seven shows and no help at all to make drivel look good. |
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[In 1981] If I had my druthers, I don't know that I'd do a whole lot more TV. But one does not always have one's choice. |
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[In 1971] Any actor who changes wardrobes all day long as part of his job is on an ego trip if he enjoys getting dressed up on his own time. That's why you find me in jeans and sneakers. |
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[about his dates who wound up fixing meals] I don't myself cook for two reasons. I don't know how, and I have no intention of learning. |
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Before I was reading science fiction, I read [Ernest Hemingway]. "A Farewell to Arms" was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development. |
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[In 1988, about accepting the role as Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch (1969)] Sherwood [producer Sherwood Schwartz] gave me the plot that sounded wonderful. He put together statistics of broken families, so I said, "It was going to be comedic, but not, no it's going to be life-like". But then, I got the script of it, and it was one gag after another, and I thought, "I don't think this has much of a chance, but they tell me, you can either do this or Mission: Impossible (1966)." Anyway, I did this. |
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[Just before his death] In children's theater, you show the ideal. The very idea is to aspire to it. |
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[In 1992] I knew when I saw it [the script for The Brady Bunch (1969)] we were off to Gilligan's Island (1964). |
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[In 1992] So many of us on these shows, create ersatz families, and it's very difficult to do, not so much for the adults because we're grown actors. But for the kids, that's another story and to make an ensemble group of kids and adults, and make it seem as they live together. And if we accomplish that, we're very pleased. |
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[on his feelings about The Brady Bunch (1969)] It was just as inconsequential as can be, to the degree that it serves as a baby-sitter, I'm glad we did it. But I do not want it on my tombstone. |
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[In 1986] You have to have a fairly healthy sense of humor. You can't just go out on stage and be funny. You have to work at it. |
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Every television actor says the same thing when you ask him why he's doing theater: to work up the juices. But the basic reason is the script. In television, the scripts aren't very good. |
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I was young, brash, so-called classically trained and well educated. |
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The Brady Bunch (1969) will remain popular until it's an anachronism. Then it'll fall into Our Gang status. |
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[on his professional name, which was chosen for him] I can't stand the name "Reed". It always reminds me of vanilla or tapioca pudding. |
