LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Singer Robert Goulet, best known for his starring role in the Broadway stage play "Camelot" has died in Los Angeles aged 73, local media reports said Tuesday.
Goulet, who had been suffering from progressive pulmonary fibrosis, had been fighting for his life in the Cedars Sinai Hospital for around a fortnight after being transferred from a facility in Las Vegas.
He had been awaiting a lung transplant, according to reports. Goulet's representatives could not be immediately contacted for comment.
Reports said Goulet's wife Vera was at the entertainer's bedside when he passed away on Tuesday.
Born to French Canadian parents in Massachusetts in 1933, Goulet's big showbusiness break occurred in 1960 when he won the part of Lancelot in Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical "Camelot."
The success of "Camelot" led to a record deal which saw him produce 15 albums over the following years.
Continuing to appear in stage musicals, Goulet popped with cameos in several Hollywood movies of the 1980s and 1990s, most notably Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice" and cop spoof "The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear."
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