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ROBERT GOULET

NOVEMBER 26, 1933 – OCTOBER 30, 2007 


Born Robert Gerard Goulet on November 26, 1933 in Lawrence, Massachusetts to Joseph and Jeannette Goulet who were of French Canadian descent. His father worked as a textile mill guard and was a fine amateur singer, which influence young Goulet to begin singing when he was five years old at family gatherings.

After his father’s death, Jeanette Goulet moved with 13-year-old Robert and his sister Claire, to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he spent his most formative years.

His first professional appearance was at age 16 in Handel's Messiah with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Following a two-year stint as a radio announcer, he was awarded a singing scholarship to the Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto, Canada.

He began his entertainment career in his teens on Canadian radio and television, and in the 1950’s he became a popular young star in Canada appearing in scores of theatrical, radio and television productions -- culminating as host of the weekly network variety show for CBC-TV, "General Electric's Showtime". 

Mr. Goulet was cast as Sir Lancelot in the 1960 Broadway production of Camelot starring opposite theatre giants Richard Burton and Julie Andrews. He took Broadway by storm and achieved instant recognition with his performance and interpretation of the show-stopping song “If Ever I would Leave You” which became his signature song. The dark, handsome, blue-eyed newcomer who like no other had a unique resonant and stirring baritone voice, redefined the interpretation of the romantic ballad and forever changed the sound on Broadway. 

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His debut in Camelot launched him internationally on an award-winning stage, screen and recording career that led him on a remarkable journey.

His vocal talents illuminated every medium of the entertainment world. A Grammy, Tony and an Emmy award winner, Robert Goulet’s illustrious career spanned for almost six decades! It is for these achievements that Robert Goulet stands as one of the greatest baritones of our time, who was also undoubtedly one of the most prominent musical stars to grace the stages worldwide.

The big-voiced baritone, died of pulmonary fibrosis on October 30, 2007 at age 73. As the Broadway community mourned the loss of Robert Goulet, the theater marquees in New York and in cities across North America were dimmed in his memory on October 31, 2007.On November 9, 2007 the day of his funeral, Las Vegas honored the late singer, actor and entertainer in an unprecedented tribute by closing the Las Vegas Strip for his funeral procession. As he took his last ride and his final bow every Las Vegas hotel-casino featured his name on their marquees saying goodbye to a man who became a legend in his own lifetime.

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Robert Goulet, “Camelot” star, dies while awaiting lung transplant

Robert Goulet, the big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in "Camelot" launched an award-winning stage and recording career, died Tuesday...

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Robert Goulet, the big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in “Camelot” launched an award-winning stage and recording career, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 73.

Mr. Goulet, who had a rare type of pulmonary fibrosis, had been waiting for a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

The singer, who had fallen ill while flying home to Las Vegas after performing at a Sept. 20 concert in Syracuse, N.Y., was admitted to a Las Vegas hospital Sept. 30. He was transferred to Cedars-Sinai as a transplant patient Oct. 14.

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

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

Mr. Goulet’s longtime friend Wayne Newton said his sense of humor “kept my spirits up in some of the lowest valleys in my life.”

Honored, applauded and admired for almost 50 years, Mr. Goulet held the esteem of generations of television and theater audiences and record buyers. He also held the top awards in those categories: the Emmy, the Tony and the Grammy.

Through the years, he remained identified in the mind of many with his performance as Sir Lancelot in “Camelot,” in which he sang the song for which he was to be remembered through the decades: “If Ever I Would Leave You.” The Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical starred Richard Burton as King Arthur and Julie Andrews as his Queen Guenevere.

Two years after his Broadway debut in “Camelot,” Mr. Goulet won a Grammy in 1962 as best new recording artist, having released three albums that year. He earned a Tony Award as best actor in 1968 for his role in Broadway’s “The Happy Time.”

A romantic himself in many ways, Mr. Goulet seemed to chroniclers of the stage to have been selected by destiny to bring to life Lancelot, a man of great gifts and human frailties.

He was a fixture in the show-business firmament of his era: a friend of Judy Garland, a colleague of Frank Sinatra, a partner in a duet of “White Christmas” with Bing Crosby.

He strode the boards on Broadway, went before the klieg lights in Hollywood, was featured on television and became a perennial in Las Vegas.

On television, he played himself in an episode of “The Simpsons” and made many commercials. He toured frequently in “South Pacific” and “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.”

He also toured in “Man of La Mancha,” urging with his big voice to dream “The Impossible Dream.”

During his heyday, Mr. Goulet also sang at the White House for Presidents Johnson and Nixon and headlined in Las Vegas. He earned a footnote in the saga of Elvis Presley: Mr. Goulet was performing on television when Presley famously blasted his TV screen with a handgun.

Mr. Goulet’s full-throated performance style became so well-known that he was parodied on TV and he even parodied himself.

He was married three times and had a daughter with his first wife and two sons with his second, singer Carol Lawrence.

A performer who made a career of finding and passing on the romance in the words and melodies he sang, Mr. Goulet recognized the romance in his own life.

He was born Nov. 26, 1933, in Lawrence, Mass., in a neighborhood where French was spoken. His father was from Quebec, and his mother was from French-speaking Canada by way of Lewiston, Maine.

In one account of his early days, he said that as a boy he sang in the choir in his Roman Catholic church but never gave much thought to a career in music.

But at 13, he was called to the bedside of his ailing father, he told a reporter.

“Robert,” he remembered his father telling him, “God gave you a voice. You must sing.”

Later that night, his father died.

What could he do? Mr. Goulet asked himself. “I had to honor his wish.”

He moved to Alberta, Canada, and lived on a grandparent’s farm. He performed with the Edmonton Symphony and remembered receiving $25. It was an eye-opener. He thought “there might be something in this after all,” he later told a Canadian newspaper.

After singing in summer stock, he received a scholarship to the Royal Conservatory of Music. In time, he appeared on Canadian television and on Canada’s largest stages. His work earned him an invitation to audition for “Camelot.”

As he remembered it, Burton was at the rehearsal at which Mr. Goulet gave voice to “If Ever I Would Leave You.” According to an account in a Canadian newspaper, Burton stared, jaw agape. “The voice of an angel,” Burton said.

Material from the Los Angeles Times, Reuters and The Associated Press is included in this report.

Singer, actor Robert Goulet dies at 73

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Robert Goulet, the Canadian-raised singer known for his baritone voice and frequent TV appearances, died Tuesday, a spokesman for the singer said. He was 73.

On Wednesday, longtime friend Wayne Newton recalled Goulet's sense of humour which he said "kept my spirits up in some of the lowest valleys in my life.

"His incredible voice will live on in his music, and as Bob so brilliantly sang, 'There will be another song for him and he will sing it,' for God now has another singing angel by his side," Newton said.

In a career that began in Edmonton and took him to New York, Los Angeles and stages around the world, Goulet won a Tony Award, a Grammy Award, and legions of fans, but little critical acclaim.

Blessed with matinee idol looks, Goulet started his acting career in Canada and became a star on Broadway in the role of Lancelot in the 1960 musical Camelot .

If Ever I Would Leave You, Lancelot's love song to Guinevere, remained a signature tune throughout his career.

But after becoming a fixture at Las Vegas, he developed the image of a Lothario crooner with twinkling blue eyes, singing through a haze of cigarette smoke.

His deep, distinctive laugh and sometimes broad opinions also made him a darling of the late-night chat shows.

Both Canada and the U.S. claim him as one of their biggest stars and he accepts both connections.

"Sometimes both countries want to claim me, but then, there have been periods when each one said to the other 'You take him, we don't want him,'" he joked in a 2005 interview.

Goulet was born on Nov. 26, 1933, in Lawrence, Mass. His father, Joseph, was from Quebec and his mother, Jeannette, was from Lewiston, Maine, although her family originally came from Quebec.

"We lived in a French-Canadian enclave in Lawrence— Catholic churches and schools and a tight-knit society," he recalled in an interview with the Toronto Star.

Goulet began singing for family and friends at the age of five. His father was ill for most of his childhood and died when he was still young.

"I sang in the church choir, but I didn't think much of it. Then one night when I was 13, my father called me to his bedside and said, 'Robert, God gave you a voice. You must sing.' He died later that same night."

His mother moved the family to Girouxville, Alta., and later to Edmonton, where Goulet would have the chance to train and perform.

By 16, Goulet was performing with the Edmonton Symphony. "I sang two songs with the Summer Pops and they gave me $25. I said 'You get paid, too?' and that was the first time I thought there might be something in this after all."

He attended the famous voice schools founded by Herbert G. Turner and Jean Letourneau, and later became a radio announcer for radio station CKUA.

Jack Hagerman, program director at CKUA Radio back in the '50s, recalled the teen with a marvellous baritone voice who turned up on the local radio talent show.

"What I said was, I'd like to talk to you when you come out of school and he didn't," Hagerman said on Wednesday. "He got a job driving a parks truck which he smashed up and got fired and then he called me and then I took him on as a trainee."

It wasn't long before Goulet had his own radio show at CKUA.

After high school, he received a scholarship to the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where he studied singing with baritones George Lambert and Ernesto Vinci.

In 1952, he was a semifinalist on CBC talent show Pick the Stars . He went on to appearances on shows such as Singing Stars of Tomorrow, Opportunity Knocks and the Canadian version of Howdy Doody.

In 1958, he played in Beggars Opera in Stratford and then got a place on the CBC-TV program Showtime.

Word of his voice had spread. In 1959, Goulet impressed librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewewith his smooth baritone and earned himself the role of Lancelot in their musical Camelot.

"I later found out they had been looking everywhere and were about to go to England when Don Harron recommended me. I flew down and the airlines lost my luggage, so I showed up in a T-shirt, jeans, cowboy boots and a leather jacket that needed cleaning," he said.

That stage production, opposite Richard Burton and Julie Andrews, launched his U.S. career.

It opened in Toronto in 1960, played in Boston for four weeks, then hit Broadway, where Goulet was acclaimed for his performance in If Ever I Would Leave You.

Goulet, who had long suffered from stage fright, was barely prepared for the success that followed.

After Camelot 's run, he was asked to appear on The Danny Thomas Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, where he performed 17 times, and became a household name.

The film offers started to come— beginning with a voice role in animated feature Gay Purr-ee , then an acting role in I'd Rather Be Rich and a string of other 1960s features that were generally considered flops.

It was only in his later years, when he took roles in the Naked Gun series, Louis Malle's 1980 film Atlantic City and Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice that he regained credibility as an actor.

His voice landed him singing roles in TV versions of Brigadoon and Kiss Me Kate , as well as appearances on shows such as The Jackie Gleason Show and Murder She Wrote .

He was also in demand on stage, with roles in Dream Girl, Carousel, Finian's Rainbow, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Pajama Game, The Beggar's Opera, Bells Are Ringing, Meet Me in St. Louis and The Happy Time, for which he won a Tony Award in the role of a French-Canadian.

But his biggest success was as a singer. He recorded more than 60 albums and appeared in concert around the world.

He remained, until recently, a regular performer at the Frontier Room in Las Vegas, where he made his home.

Goulet had a tempestuous personal life, divorcing his first wife, Louise Longmore, in 1963 and marrying popular stage star Carol Lawrence.

Their 18-year marriage was rocky and ended in 1981, at a time when Goulet was having problems with alcohol.

In 1982, he met and wed Vera Novak, a Yugoslavian-born writer and artist, whom he credits with getting his life back in order.

His crooner image and penchant for cheesy TV appearances have made him the subject of parodies, including one on The Simpsons , in which he is booked into Bart's casino (in the tree house) and sings Jingle Bells (Batman Smells ).

"You have to have humour, and be able to laugh at yourself," Goulet said. "One of the lines in Man of La Mancha, spoken of the Duke in the play by Cervantes/ Don Quixote, is, 'He carries his self-importance as if afraid of breaking it' — amuses me immensely. No one should take himself that seriously.'"

Goulet returned to the stage for the first time in nearly a decade in 2005 to take a role in La Cage Aux Folles , bringing down the house by kissing his co-star, Gary Beach, in the Tony-winning production in New York.

"I'm not used to kissing men, so the first time, I nearly broke Gary's nose. Then I hit his chin. I'm getting better," he said of that appearance.

Goulet was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993 and had surgery and radiation treatment before recovering his health.

He leaves his wife and three children, sons Christopher and Michael, and daughter Nicolette, who is the mother of his grandchildren, Jordan Gerard and Solange.

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Robert Goulet, Actor, Dies at 73

By Douglas Martin

• Oct. 30, 2007

Robert Goulet, who marshaled his dark good looks and thundering baritone voice to play a dashing Lancelot in the original “Camelot” in 1960, then went on to a wide-ranging career as a singer and actor, winning a Tony, a Grammy and an Emmy, died today. He was 73.

The singer died in a Los Angeles hospital while awaiting a lung transplant, a Goulet spokesman said in an e-mail, according to the Associated Press.

In September, Mr. Goulet received a diagnosis of interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, a rapidly progressive, potentially fatal condition, his wife, Vera, said in a statement released on Oct. 25 on Mr. Goulet’s website. On Oct. 13, he was transferred from a hospital in Las Vegas, where he lived, to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to await the transplant.

After the “Camelot” triumph, Mr. Goulet was called the next great matinee idol. Judy Garland described him as a living 8-by-10 glossy. He was swamped with offers to do movies, television shows and nightclub engagements. Few articles failed to mention his bedroom blue eyes, and many female fans tossed him room keys during performances. His hit song from the show, “If Ever I Would Leave You,” remains a romantic standard.

“Something in his voice evokes old times and romance,” Alex Witchel wrote in the New York Times Magazine in 1993. “He makes you remember corsages.”

Still, Mr. Goulet left a sense that he might have even been more than he was. For a suave musical theater performer, he arrived late, just after Elvis and just before the Beatles. In 1961, The New York Daily News Magazine called him “just the man to help stamp out rock ’n’ roll.” But it was an impossible assignment.

Moreover, the public had begun to lose its appetite for over-the-top entertainment deities. “We’re no longer something that’s on the dark side of the moon — unattainable,” Mr. Goulet told The Saturday Evening Post in 1963.

So Mr. Goulet did not become a hit-record machine, a perennial on Broadway, a major movie star or, by his own evaluation, a finely accomplished actor. But his more than 60 albums, travels with touring theatrical revivals and many Las Vegas gigs were enough to ensure nearly a half-century of popularity.

In 1982, he was named Las Vegas entertainer of the year. In an article this year, The Las Vegas Review-Journal said he had prized a picture showing the day his name appeared on the marquees of two showplaces: he had just played the Desert Inn and was starting at the Frontier.

“My manager kept me working in those places because he was getting half my money,” Mr. Goulet said in an interview with The Hartford Courant in 2002, “and the money was coming in.”

His Las Vegas success led to roles parodying himself as the consummate lounge singer, a part he played in the movie “Atlantic City” (1980). He was the voice for a character much like himself in a “Simpsons” episode, and he portrayed Robert Goulet in ESPN commercial spots that won a sports Emmy for best promotional shorts in 1996.

“The two sweetest words in the English language after chorus girl — college hoops,” Mr. Goulet said in one ad.

Mr. Goulet’s rise after “Camelot” was swift. In 1962, he won a Grammy award as best new artist for his first two albums, “Always You” and “Two of Us,” and his hit single “What Kind of Fool Am I.” Two years later, his album “My Love Forgive Me” went gold; 17 of his albums between 1962 and 1970 made the charts.

He reached the peak of his popularity in the ’60s. In 1966, he starred in a television adaptation of “Brigadoon,” which won an Emmy as outstanding musical production. He won a Tony for his performance in the 1968 Broadway musical “The Happy Time.” And he appeared frequently on popular television programs like “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

Robert Gerard Goulet was born on Nov. 26, 1933, in Lawrence, Mass. He often spoke of his father, Joseph, a textile-mill guard and fine amateur singer of French-Canadian extraction, who died when Robert was in his mid-teens. Joseph was so moved by Robert’s singing during a church performance that he said (on his deathbed in some versions), “God gave you a voice, and you must sing.”

The family moved to Edmonton, Alberta, after Joseph’s death. Robert took singing lessons, dropped out of high school in his senior year and made his first professional appearance around the age of 16. He took a job as a disk jockey in Edmonton. He next studied opera at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto on a scholarship.

He looked for entertainment work in New York, but ended up selling stationery at Gimbels department store. He returned to Toronto, where he won theatrical parts and was soon cast in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s television production of “Little Women.” He later starred for three years on “Showtime,” a leading television variety program.

Fan clubs formed for the young man they called “Canada’s first matinee idol,” a title Mr. Goulet disliked. Soon a theatrical agent recommended him to Alan Jay Lerner, the librettist, and Frederick Loewe, the composer, for their new musical, “Camelot.”

His audition, in September 1960, went so well that everyone applauded, a rarity, Mr. Goulet recalled in an interview with Music Educators Journal in 1998.

Mr. Loewe asked him, “Parlez-vous francais?”

Mr. Goulet answered, “Oui, certainement.” (Lancelot was French.)

His agent described the deal he had just negotiated: Mr. Goulet would start at $ 750 a week. Mr. Goulet piped up that he would do it for nothing. “Shut up!” the agent snapped.

The show’s tryout in Toronto drew good notices. Variety called Mr. Goulet the “perfect Lancelot.” Broadway critics, too, praised Mr. Goulet, though most were at best lukewarm about the show, which also starred Julie Andrews and Richard Burton. But the public loved it. It ran for 873 performances, closing in January 1963. The cast album, featuring “If Ever I Would Leave You,” topped the charts.

Mr. Goulet’s first marriage, to Louise Longmore, ended in divorce in March 1963. That November, he married the singer and actress Carol Lawrence. The couple were called a real-life Ken and Barbie, but they divorced in 1981 and an acrimonious tell-all book by Ms. Lawrence followed.

Besides his wife, Vera Novak, Mr. Goulet is survived by a daughter, Nicolette, from his first marriage; his sons Christopher and Michael from his second, and two grandchildren.

In the 1990s and beyond, Mr. Goulet continued to sing and act. He also took on novel assignments; in one, he provided the singing voice for Wheezy the Penguin in “Toy Story 2” (1999); in another, he played a mischievous office prankster in a commercial for Emerald Nuts, shown during this year’s Super Bowl.

He spoke widely about his recovery from prostate cancer to encourage men to be tested for the disease. But even with health problems, he could laugh at his own expense. When he had surgery on a split femur in the mid-1990s, he asked the surgeon if he would be able to dance afterward. The doctor said yes.

“That’s good,” Mr. Goulet said, “because I couldn’t dance before.”

Robert Goulet

• Born November 26 , 1933 · Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
• Died October 30 , 2007 · Los Angeles, California, USA (pulmonary fibrosis)
• Birth name Robert Gerard Goulet
• Height 5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
• Robert Gerard Goulet was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to a family of French-Canadian origin. He was the son of Jeanette (Gauthier) and Joseph Georges André Goulet. After hearing his son sing "Lead Kindly Light", in their church hall, his father told him, "I'm proud of you, son". A few weeks later, his father, lying on his death bed, called Robert to his side and told him the Lord had given him a beautiful voice and he must go and sing. His father died when Robert was 13 and he moved to Edmonton, Canada, a year later. Goulet won a singing scholarship to the Royal Conservatory of music in Toronto and, in 1951, made his concert debut at Edmonton in George Frideric Handel 's "Messiah". Goulet was also a DJ on Canada's CKUA in Edmonton for two years. In 1960, he landed one of his biggest roles as "Lancelot" in Broadway's "Camelot", opposite Richard Burton and Julie Andrews . He received a Tony award in 1968 for his role in "Happy Time". He and his first wife, Louise Longmore, had one daughter, Nicolette Goulet (aka Nikki). His second wife, actress and singer Carol Lawrence , produced two sons, Christopher and Michael. In 1982, with Glenn Ford giving the bride away, he was married in Las Vegas to Vera Goulet (aka Vera Novak), a Yugoslavian-born writer, photographer and artist. When not living at their home in Las Vegas, they reside on their yacht, "Rogo", in Los Angeles. Goulet has performed at the White House for three presidents, as well as a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II . On September 30, 2007, he was hospitalized in Las Vegas, where he was diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, "a rare but rapidly progressive and potentially fatal condition". On October 13, he was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after it was determined that he "would not survive without an emergency lung transplant". Goulet died on October 30, 2007 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, while awaiting a transplant. He is survived by his wife, Vera Goulet , and three children, sons Christopher and Michael, and daughter Nicolette Goulet , who is the mother of his grandchildren, Jordan Gerard and Solange. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Mike Mckinley
• Spouses Vera Goulet (October 17, 1982 - October 30, 2007) (his death) Carol Lawrence (August 12, 1963 - December 23, 1980) (divorced, 2 children) Louise Blanchette Longmore (1956 - March 8, 1963) (divorced, 1 child)
• Children Nicolette Goulet Michael Goulet Christopher Goulet
• Parents Georges André Goulet Jeanette Gauthier Goulet
• Relatives Jordan Fowlar (Grandchild) Solange Fowlar (Grandchild)
• Rich baritone singing voice
• When he had surgery on a split femur in the mid-1990s, he asked the surgeon if he would be able to dance afterward. The doctor said yes. Goulet replied: "That's good, because I couldn't dance before.".
• He had fallen ill while flying home to Las Vegas after performing a concert in Syracuse, NY, on September 20, 2007. Goulet was rushed to St. Rose Hospital in Las Vegas on September 30, 2007, where he was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. On October 13, 2007, he was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after it was determined he would not survive without an emergency lung transplant. He died at 10:17am, on October 30, 2007, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, while awaiting a transplant. He was cremated in the night of November 9, 2007 and his ashes will remain in Las Vegas with his wife, Vera.
• Has been awarded a 'Fellowship' at the Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto, Canada, his alma mater.
• He lived in Las Vegas, NV in his later years, until his death.
• Inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in 2015 (inaugural class) in the category Music & Arts.
• It would be difficult to decide in my roller coaster existence, just when I had my 'Best Day.' Perhaps it was when I married my present wife, Vera. Or the day when my three children were born. Certainly the day I came away cancer-free from a prostate operation stands near the top. For now, everyday seems as if it should be the best day of them all. I like to think of them as such.
• One of the lines in "Man Of La Mancha" spoken of the Duke in the play by Cervantes/Don Quixote is, "He carries his self-importance as if afraid of breaking it", amuses me immensely. No one should take himself that seriously.

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From Middle English golet , borrowed from Old French goulet , from Latin gula , from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- ( “ throat ” ) .

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• ( UK , US ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/ , /ˈɡʌl.ət/

• Rhymes: -ʌlɪt
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gullet ( plural gullets )

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• ( cytology ) The cytopharynx of a ciliate , through which food is ingested .
• The space between the teeth of a saw blade .
• A channel for water .
• A preparatory cut or channel in excavations , of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
• The wide space under the pommel of a saddle ; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
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• ( Kautokeino ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkuːlːleh(t)/
• to ( catch ) fish

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• ( Kautokeino ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkulleh(t)/
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Letho of Gulet , also known as The Kingslayer , was a witcher from the School of the Viper . His closest associates were Auckes and Serrit , also kingslayers and fellow witchers from the School of the Viper. Letho enlisted the help of Iorveth and the Scoia'tael to aid him in his plan to kill the kings of the Northern Kingdoms ; to back his claim, the Viper showed Iorveth a head that belonged to Demavend III , the king of Aedirn , whom Letho had previously slain.

• 1.1 Killing kings
• 1.2 On the run
• 2.1 Journal entry
• 3.1 Hero Presentation
• 3.3 Weapons
• 4.1 Journal entry
• 4.2 Associated quests
• 9 References
• 10 External links

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Biography [ ]

Letho's origins are unknown, or if he even hailed from Gulet . As a child, he ended up at the School of the Viper where he was trained and underwent the Trial of the Grasses and became a witcher. Here, he was educated in the school's repository knowledge of the Wild Hunt .

At some point after he'd become a witcher, the Viper School eventually fell into ruin when the Usurper demanded the school's submission to his rule and was refused. The Nilfgaardian Army then lay siege to and destroyed Gorthur Gvaed after a costly battle, and the remaining witchers were scattered about the Empire, became internal exiles forbidden from entering most cities, forcing Letho and his brothers to go into hiding. [1]

Letho once sought after the bounty of a wanted man named Louis in Aedirn. After struggling to find simple contracts, he decided to hunt Louis in exchange for coin. Letho easily tracked him down merrymaking at the Golden Hanged Man in Hagge and captured him. After bringing him to collect his payment he discovered that the Guard Post was closed until dawn. With a few hours to spare, the two conversed, becoming friends and Letho decided to set him free. [2]

In the forests of Angren on July 25, 1270 , Letho was near death after being struck by a slyzard 's tail but Geralt , a witcher from the School of the Wolf , found and saved him while chasing after the Wild Hunt to rescue Yennefer . As thanks for saving his life, Letho told Geralt where to find the Wild Hunt and, alongside his own companions, travelled with him to find the spectral riders. Eventually, the group caught up with the Wild Hunt on the Winter Solstice, by the Hanged Man's Tree in Nilfgaard. Despite their skill, the witchers couldn't defeat all the warriors and a stalemate ensued before Geralt offered himself in exchange for Yennefer.

Feeling it'd be disrespectful to Geralt to just leave the sorceress somewhere, Letho and the witchers took care of her. However, she was in pain, suffering from amnesia and caused an endless source of trouble for the group, which, in the Nilfgaardian Empire , meant she was liable to get caught and killed. While the group traveled constantly to try and avoid attention, they were eventually detained and thrown in jail. However, Emperor Emhyr var Emreis himself later approached Letho and offered him a deal he couldn't refuse: sow chaos in the North by killing some of its rulers, lay the blame on the Lodge of Sorceresses , and the School of the Viper would be restored.

Killing kings [ ]

King Esterad Thyssen of Kovir and Poviss was initially Letho's first target, but this never came to be as the kingslayers came into contact with Síle de Tansarville , who contracted Letho with assassinating King Demavend and helped to organize it. Thus, in 1271 , Letho snuck onboard Demavend's ship out on the Pontar and, using a Northern Wind -based capsule, froze most of the ship and nearly everyone on board except a handful that were protected by Abelard 's counter spell. However, this wasn't enough and all the guards fell to Letho's blade before he rounded on the king and killed him, then cut off his head for proof. Per de Tansarville's suggestion, Letho subsequently sought out Iorveth with the head in tow; yet, instead of merely using the Scoia'tael in order to lie low after the killing as Síle had envisaged, Letho also secured an alliance between the kingslayers and the Scoia'tael, whereby the latter would help Letho and his comrades to kill the kings of the North in whatever way they could.

Because of the kingslayers' first attempt on King Foltest's life having failed due to Geralt being there at the time of the attack and the would-be assassin 's death, Letho planned a second attempt on the Temerian monarch's life with Iorveth, while being out of Síle's or anyone else's reach. Aware of the imminent siege at La Valette Castle , Letho decided to pose as a monk guarding over the king's children - a disguise which he enacted by framing himself as a helpless monk being tortured and then killing the person who treated him to keep the secret. Foltest, after successfully taking over the castle, appeared with Geralt, now acting as a bodyguard, at which point the king asked for Geralt to give him and the children some space. With his back turned, Geralt heard the attack too late as Letho revealed himself just after he killed Foltest and fled out a window to escape with Scoia'tael assistance, leaving Geralt to be wrongly accused of regicide. Shortly after this assassination, Letho attempted to betray Iorveth by turning one of his lieutenants against him. However, the elf refused, so Letho killed his entire unit to cover his tracks and left Ciaran to be captured by Flotsam 's guards.

In an attempt to catch Letho, Geralt, who now knew that Letho had attempted to get rid of Iorveth, the elf to the kingslayer as a ruse to expose the latter's treachery. However, Iorveth and his Scoia'tael were attacked by the Blue Stripes , leaving Geralt and Letho to battle each other. Letho prevailed in the battle with Geralt, but once the Wolf was down, he spared him. Letho revealed that Geralt once saved his life and so they were now "even", before running off to kidnap Triss and force her to teleport them to Aedirn. He succeeded in capturing the sorceress, but fought and killed Cedric in the process as he tried to defend her.

After arriving in Vergen, Letho abandoned Triss and regrouped with Serrit and Auckes in their hideout. Knowing that the Scoia'tael in the area would soon become aware of his betrayal, Letho and his two comrades massacred them, leaving only one survivor . Upon hearing about the upcoming summit at Loc Muinne , Letho headed there, entrusting Serrit and Auckes with assassinating Henselt.

Knowing that Síle had become a liability for him, Letho sabotaged her megascope by replacing one of the crystals with a flawed one in order to dispose of her. Unless Geralt intervenes, Letho is successful and Síle explodes. Afterwards, the kingslayer waited in the center of the Temerian Quarter in Loc Muinne to talk with his former companion. Letho offered Geralt vodka, while explaining that he never had anything personal against him and proceeded to tell him about his deal with the emperor, the fate of Yennefer, and all that he knew about the Wild Hunt.

If Geralt fights Letho: the two fought one last time and Geralt ultimately defeated Letho, killing him.

If Geralt lets Letho go: Letho and Geralt parted ways, believing they'd never see each other again.

On the run [ ]

Note: if Letho was killed at the end of the second game, what follows below isn't applicable.

Having succeeded in tearing the North apart, Letho learned afterwards that it was all for naught, with Emperor Emhyr not only going back on his word to restore the School of the Viper but, as Letho was now a living witness to the emperor's plans, the witcher was a liability and assassins were sent after him. With a high price on his head and bounty hunters chasing him everywhere, Letho traveled around, not staying anywhere too long, before he dropped in at the abandoned Reardon Manor in Velen in 1272 . Coincidentally, Geralt was in the area as well on unrelated business.

If Geralt doesn't help him out: the two parted ways, with Letho heading off to take care of his business by himself.

If Geralt helps him out: Letho and Geralt talked for a bit, with Letho explaining his "on the run" situation before a group of scouts arrived, no doubt sent to see if Letho was there. After the two witchers killed them off, Letho asked his former friend for help in dealing with the bounty hunters and the two set out together to track down Louis , an acquaintance of Letho's and the only one who knew where the witcher was hiding, having recommended the manor to Letho. It turned out that Louis sold him out and, not one to forgive such actions, Letho left him to die. He then had Geralt follow him to Lindenvale and told Geralt that whatever happened next, to not interfere, before throwing a bomb at a nearby barn, causing it to explode and several armed bounty hunters to run out of a nearby hut. After a short conversation between Letho and the group's leader, Arnout Vester , one of the bounty hunters shot a crossbow at the witcher and he attacked, killing off six of them before falling over, seeming dead. Letho woke up sometime later, with Geralt waiting nearby, having sensed on closer inspection that Letho had used a substance to only make it appear that he died.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings [ ]

Journal entry [ ].

The Witcher Battle Arena [ ]

Letho of Gulet was one of the playable heroes in the now defunct MOBA and had a lot of interesting weapons, skills, and skins. He was a warrior class hero.

Hero Presentation [ ]

Weapons [ ]

The witcher 3: wild hunt [ ].

Associated quests [ ]

• The Fall of the House of Reardon (proximity)
• Ghosts of the Past
• The Battle of Kaer Morhen (dependent)
• Blood on the Battlefield (dependent)
• Letho is derivred from Greek name λήθω meaning "hidden" or "forgotten". [4]
• According to Arnout Vester, Letho's bounty is enough to buy an estate in Kovir .
• In The Witcher 3 , Letho talks about heading to Zerrikania if not asked to go to Kaer Morhen, citing a possible reason that it's a matriarchy and he's always had a deep belief "that it's women who should rule the world." Whether this was in jest or what he really thinks, however, is uncertain.

Gallery [ ]

References [ ]

• ↑ The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
• ↑ The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• ↑ Letho of Gulet – hero presentation
• ↑ https://www.behindthename.com/name/leto

External links [ ]

• The Witcher
• 2 Geralt of Rivia
• 3 Wolf School Gear