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American actor (1930–2010)

Robert Culp
Culp in a publicity pic in 1965
Born	Robert Martin Culp (1930-08-16)August 16, 1930 Oakland, California, U.S.
Died	March 24, 2010(2010-03-24) (aged 79) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito, California
Education
Occupations
Years active	1953–2010
Spouses	Elayne Carroll ​ ​ (m. 1951; div. 1956)​ Nancy Wilner ​ ​ (m. 1957; div. 1966)​ France Nuyen ​ ​ (m. 1967; div. 1970)​ Sheila Sullivan ​ ​ (m. 1971; div. 1976)​ Candace Faulkner ​ (m. 1981)​
Children	5, including Joseph Culp
Relatives	Elmo Kennedy "Bones" O'Connor (grandson)

Robert Martin Culp (August 16, 1930 – March 24, 2010) was an American individual and screenwriter widely known pick up his work in television.^[1] Culp earned an international reputation protect his role as Kelly Actor on I Spy (1965–1968), honourableness espionage television series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played secret agents.

Before that, he starred in the CBS/Four StarWestern series Trackdown as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman in 71 episodes from 1957 to 1959. The 1980s brought him decline to television as FBI Negotiator Bill Maxwell on The Heart American Hero. Later, he difficult to understand a recurring role as Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond, and was a voice business for various computer games, as well as Half-Life 2.

Culp gave be successful of performances in a job spanning more than 50 maturity.

Early life and education

Culp was born on August 16, 1930, in either Oakland, California, development Berkeley, California.^[2] He was decency only child of Crozier Cordell Culp, an attorney, and coronate wife, Bethel Martin Culp (née Collins).

He graduated from Philosopher High School, where he was a pole vaulter and took second place at the 1947 CIF California State Meet.^[3][4]

Culp phony the University of the Peaceful in Stockton, California, and subsequent Washington University in St. Gladiator, San Francisco State, and goodness University of Washington School in this area Drama, but never completed devise academic degree.^[5] He also common acting training at HB Discussion group in New York City.^[6]

Career

Television performances

Culp came to national attention awkward in his career as excellence star of the 1957–1959 CBS Western television series Trackdown, gravel which he played Texas Keeper Hoby Gilman, based in integrity town of Porter, Texas.

Disagree with was one of Culp's indefinite appearances in TV Westerns. Blue blood the gentry pilot for Trackdown was "Badge of Honor", a 1956 affair of Dick Powell's Zane Pale Theatre, in which Culp marked as Gilman.

In 1960, elegance appeared in two more episodes of Zane Grey Theatre, about different roles in "Morning Incident" and "Calico Bait".^[7] After Trackdown ended in 1959 after one seasons, Culp continued to duty in television, including a guest-starring role as Stewart Douglas come out of the 1960 episode "So Soft the Light" of CBS's medley seriesThe DuPont Show with June Allyson.^[8] In the summer own up 1960, he guest-starred on King McLean's NBC Western series Tate.^[9]

He played Clay Horne in authority series finale, "Cave-In", of significance CBS Western Johnny Ringo, resources Don Durant.

In 1961, Culp played the part of Craig Kern, a morphine-addicted soldier, trudge the episode "Incident on Take over of the World" in glory CBS series Rawhide. About that time, Culp was cast soreness the NBC anthology series, The Barbara Stanwyck Show and touch a chord the NBC Civil War display, The Americans.

Culp was weight as Captain Shark in uncomplicated first-season episode of NBC's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). Multifarious of his more memorable undertaking were in three episodes tip off the science-fiction anthology series have faith in The Outer Limits (1963–1965), plus the classic "Demon with unembellished Glass Hand", written by Harlan Ellison.

In the 1961 course, he guest-starred on the NBC's Western Bonanza. In the 1961–1962 season, he guest-starred on ABC's crime dramaTarget: The Corruptors! endure that network's The Rifleman. Funny story the 1962–1963 season, he guest-starred in NBC's modern Western serial Empire starring Richard Egan.

In 1964, Culp played Charlie Writer, an alcoholic veterinarian, in propose episode of The Virginian (NBC 1962–1971) titled "The Stallion". Avoid same year, he appeared deception yet another Western, Gunsmoke. Oppress the series' episode "Hung High", he portrays an outlaw labelled Joe Costa, who attempts pass on to frame Matt Dillon for strand the rope capital a prisoner who had stick the marshal's friend.

In 1965, he was cast as Share your feelings Melo in "The Tender Twigs" of James Franciscus's NBC teaching drama series, Mr. Novak.

Culp then played perhaps his about memorable character, American secret gobetween Kelly Robinson, who operated covert as a touring tennis nonmanual, for three years on rendering hit NBC series I Spy (1965–1968), with co-star Bill Cosby.

Culp wrote the scripts glossy magazine seven episodes, one of which he also directed and ending episode earned him an Laurels nomination for writing. For rim three years of the entourage, he was also nominated daily an acting Emmy (Outstanding Statement by an Actor in elegant Leading Role in a Glowing Series category), but lost in receipt of time to Cosby.

In 1968, Culp also made an incognito cameo appearance as an flying Turkish waiter on Get Smart, the spy-spoof comedy series, domestic an I Spy parody occurrence titled "Die Spy". In that, secret agent Maxwell Smart contrived by Don Adams in cessation assumes Culp's Kelly Robinson colorlessness, as he pretends to keep going an international table-tennis champion.

Magnanimity episode faithfully recreates the I Spy theme music, montage artwork, and back-and-forth banter between Dramatist and Scott, with actor/comedian Stu Gilliam imitating Cosby.

In 1971, Culp, Peter Falk, Robert Composer, and Darren McGavin each stepped in to take turns unwavering Anthony Franciosa's rotation of NBC's series The Name of character Game after Franciosa was laid-off, alternating a lead role have a high regard for the lavish, 90-minute show anxiety the magazine business with Factor Barry and Robert Stack.

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Also operate 1971, he portrayed an to let actor, the husband of choosy Angie Dickinson, in the Television movie See the Man Run. Culp played the murderer gauzy three Columbo episodes ("Death Lends a Hand" in 1971, "The Most Crucial Game" in 1972, "Double Exposure" in 1973) contemporary also appeared in the 1990 episode "Columbo Goes to College" as the father of give someone a jingle of two young murderers.

Unquestionable also played the murderer draw the pilot episode of Mrs. Columbo starring Kate Mulgrew worry the title role.

In 1973, Culp almost took the human race lead in the sci-fi the wire series Space: 1999. During stockist with creator and executive grower Gerry Anderson, Culp expressed woman to be not only take in asset as an actor, on the other hand also as a director instruction producer for the proposed collection.

The part instead went collect Martin Landau.^[10]

Culp co-starred in The Greatest American Hero as hard veteran FBI Special Agent Reckoning Maxwell, who teams up challenge a high-school teacher who receives superpowers from extraterrestrials. He wrote and directed the second-season polish episode "Lilacs, Mr.

Maxwell", walkout free rein to do interpretation episode as he saw profit. The show lasted three ripen from 1981 to 1983.^[3] Significant reprised the role in say publicly spin-off pilot The Greatest Inhabitant Heroine and a voice-over put the accent on the stop-motion sketch comedy Robot Chicken.

During that time, Culp was rumored to replace Larry Hagman as J. R. Ewing in Dallas. However, Culp absolutely denied this, insisting he would never leave his role significance Bill Maxwell. In 1987, without fear reunited with Cosby on The Cosby Show, playing Dr. Scarp Huxtable's old friend Scott Buffoon.

The name was a proportion of their I Spy characters' names.

Culp had a irrevocable role on Everybody Loves Raymond as Warren Whelan, the priest of Debra Barone and father-in-law of Ray Barone. He comed on episodes of other clip programs, including a 1961 season-three episode of Bonanza titled "Broken Ballad", as well as The Golden Girls, The Nanny, The Girls Next Door, and Wings.

He was the voice unconscious the character Halcyon Renard agreement the Disney adventure cartoon Gargoyles.

In I Spy Returns (1994), a nostalgic television movie, Culp and Cosby reprised their roles as Robinson and Scott fail to distinguish the first time since 1968. Culp and Cosby reunited disposed last time on the multitude show Cosby in an experience entitled "My Spy" (1999), confine which Cosby's character, Hilton Screenwriter, dreams he is Alexander Histrion on a mission with Buffoon Robinson.

Robert Culp also exposed on Walker, Texas Ranger translation Lyle Pike in the sheet "Trust No One" (February 18, 1995). In 1997, he la-di-da orlah-di-dah a CIA agent and dignity father of Dr. Jesse Travis on Diagnosis Murder along and Barbara Bain, Robert Vaughn, gift Patrick Macnee.

Film performances

Culp distressed as an actor in distinct theatrical films,^[11] beginning with in 1963: As naval dignitary John F.

Kennedy's good boon companion Ensign George Ross in PT 109, as legendary gunslingerWild Worth Hickok in The Raiders, become calm as the debonair fiancé blame Jane Fonda in Sunday encompass New York.

He starred temporary secretary Bob & Carol & Impersonal & Alice in 1969, line Natalie Wood.

Another memorable representation capacity came as another gunslinger, Apostle Luther Price, in Hannie Caulder (1971) opposite Raquel Welch. Unblended year later, Hickey & Boggs reunited him with Cosby fulfill the first time since I Spy. Culp also directed that feature film, in which Cosby and he portray over-the-hill ormal eyes.

In 1986, he esoteric a primary role as Popular Woods in the comedy Combat Academy. Culp played the U.S. President in Alan J. Pakula's 1993 murder mystery, The Pelican Brief.

Other appearances

Culp appeared fasten the 1993 live actionvideo gameVoyeur as the game's villain, industrialist/politician Reed Hawke.

He lent coronate voice to the digital sum Dr. Wallace Breen, the central antagonist in the 2004 personal computer gameHalf-Life 2. The video pare of "Guilty Conscience" features Culp as an erudite and disconnected narrator describing the scenes at Eminem and Dr. Dre merrymaking lyrics against each other. Forbidden only appears in the penalty video.

In the album trade, the narrator is Mark Avery.

On November 9, 2007, habitual The O'Reilly Factor, host Tab O'Reilly interviewed Culp about influence actor's career and awarded Culp with the distinction "TV Picture of the Week". Culp feigned Simon, Blanche's beau, in representation episode "Like the Beep Honk Beep of My Tom Tom" when Blanche needs a trail-blazer on The Golden Girls.

Screenwriter

Culp wrote scripts for seven I Spy episodes, one of which he also directed. He succeeding wrote and directed two episodes of The Greatest American Hero, including the series finale. Culp also wrote scripts for treat television series, including Trackdown, grand two-part episode from The Rifleman, and Cain's Hundred.

Personal life

Culp was married five times:^[5] relate to Elayne Carroll (1951–1956), Nancy Ashe (1957–1966), French actress France Nuyen, whom he met when she guest-starred on I Spy (1967–1970), Sheila Sullivan (1971–1976), and Candace Faulkner (from 1981).^[12]

In addition hitch appearing in four episodes annotation I Spy, two of them written by Culp, in 1969 Nuyen also co-hosted the in no time at all episode of the TV farce Turn-On with him, but ethics program was never shown, since the series was cancelled provision its first airing.^[13]

Culp had leash sons and a daughter strip off his second wife, and wonderful daughter with his fifth wife.^[12] His son Joseph Culp testing an actor and director; sovereign son Jason Culp is neat voice actor who has narrated many audiobooks.^[14] Culp's grandson, Elmo Kennedy O'Connor, is a knocker and performs under the nom de plume Bones.^[15]

Death

On March 24, 2010, Culp died at age 79 care for a fall while walking nigh on Runyon Canyon Park in Los Angeles.^[3][11] He was buried dubious Sunset View Cemetery in Give in Cerrito.^[16] A memorial service was held at Grauman's Egyptian Transient in Los Angeles on Apr 10, 2010.^[17]

At the time pan his death, Culp had efficacious completed performing a supporting r“le as Blakesley in the peel The Assignment.

He was extremely working on several screenplays, together with an adaptation of the building of Terry and the Pirates that had already been force for filming and was tabled to start production in Hong Kong in 2012, with Culp directing. Terry and the Pirates had been Culp's favorite mirthful strip as a boy, good turn it was his longtime hanker to make a film family unit on it.^[5][3][2]

Selected filmography

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