Robert Martin Culp was an American actor widely known for his work in television.
39 Facts About Robert Culp
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Robert Culp gave hundreds of performances in a career spanning more than 50 years.
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Robert Culp was born on August 16,1930, in either Oakland, California, or Berkeley, California.
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Robert Culp was the only child of Crozier Cordell Culp, an attorney, and his wife, Bethel Martin Culp.
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Robert Culp graduated from Berkeley High School, where he was a pole vaulter and took second place at the 1947 CIF California State Meet.
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Robert Culp attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, but did not graduate.
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Robert Culp later attended Washington University in St Louis, San Francisco State, and the University of Washington School of Drama, but never completed an academic degree.
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Robert Culp received his acting training at HB Studio in New York City.
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Robert Culp played Clay Horne in the series finale, "Cave-In", of the CBS Western Johnny Ringo, starring Don Durant.
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In 1961, Robert Culp played the part of Craig Kern, a morphine-addicted soldier, in the episode "Incident on Top of the World" in the CBS series Rawhide.
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About this time, Robert Culp was cast on the NBC anthology series, The Barbara Stanwyck Show and in the NBC Civil War drama, The Americans.
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In 1964, Robert Culp played Charlie Orwell, an alcoholic veterinarian, in an episode of The Virginian titled "The Stallion".
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Robert Culp then played perhaps his most memorable character, CIA secret agent Kelly Robinson, who operated undercover as a touring tennis professional, for three years on the hit NBC series I Spy, with co-star Bill Cosby.
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Robert Culp wrote the scripts for seven episodes, one of which he directed and an episode earned him an Emmy nomination for writing.
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In 1968, Robert Culp made an uncredited cameo appearance as an inebriated Turkish waiter on Get Smart, the spy-spoof comedy series, in an I Spy parody episode titled "Die Spy".
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Robert Culp played the murderer in three Columbo episodes and appeared in the 1990 episode "Columbo Goes to College" as the father of one of two young murderers.
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Robert Culp played the murderer in the pilot episode of Mrs Columbo starring Kate Mulgrew in the title role.
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In 1973, Robert Culp almost took the male lead in the sci-fi television series Space: 1999.
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Robert Culp co-starred in The Greatest American Hero as tough veteran FBI Special Agent Bill Maxwell, who teams up with a high-school teacher who receives superpowers from extraterrestrials.
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Robert Culp wrote and directed the second-season finale episode "Lilacs, Mr Maxwell", with free rein to do the episode as he saw fit.
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Robert Culp reprised the role in the spin-off pilot The Greatest American Heroine and a voice-over on the stop-motion sketch comedy Robot Chicken.
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However, Robert Culp firmly denied this, insisting he would never leave his role as Bill Maxwell.
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Robert Culp had a recurring role on Everybody Loves Raymond as Warren Whelan, the father of Debra Barone and father-in-law of Ray Barone.
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Robert Culp appeared on episodes of other television 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.
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Robert Culp was the voice of the character Halcyon Renard in the Disney adventure cartoon Gargoyles.
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Robert Culp appeared on Walker, Texas Ranger as Lyle Pike in the episode "Trust No One".
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Robert Culp directed this feature film, in which Cosby and he portray over-the-hill private eyes.
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Robert Culp lent his voice to the digital character Doctor Breen, the prime antagonist in the 2004 computer game Half-Life 2.
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Robert Culp played Simon, Blanche's beau, in the episode "Like the Beep Beep Beep of My Tom Tom" when Blanche needs a pacemaker on The Golden Girls.
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Robert Culp wrote scripts for seven I Spy episodes, one of which he directed.
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Robert Culp later wrote and directed two episodes of The Greatest American Hero, including the series finale.
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Robert Culp wrote scripts for other television series, including Trackdown, a two-part episode from The Rifleman, and Cain's Hundred.
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Robert Culp's son Jason Culp is a voice actor who has narrated many audiobooks.
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Robert Culp was married to French actress France Nuyen, from 1967 to 1970, whom he met when she guest-starred on I Spy.
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Robert Culp appeared in four episodes, two of them written by Culp.
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Robert Culp's grandson, Elmo Kennedy O'Connor, is a rapper and performs under the alias Bones.
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Robert Culp was buried at Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito.
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At the time of his death, Robert Culp had just completed performing a supporting role as Blakesley in the film The Assignment.
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Robert Culp was working on several screenplays, including an adaptation of the story of Terry and the Pirates that had already been accepted for filming and was scheduled to start production in Hong Kong in 2012, with Culp directing.