Robert Culp is a Actor and Director American born on 16 august 1930 at Oakland (USA)
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Birth name Robert Martin CulpNationality USABirth 16 august 1930 at Oakland (
USA)
Death 24 march 2010 (at 79 years) at Los Angeles (
USA)
Robert Martin Culp (August 16, 1930 – March 24, 2010) was an American actor, screenwriter, voice actor and director, widely known for his work in television. Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy (1965–1968), the espionage series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played a pair of secret agents. Prior to that, he starred in the CBS/Four Star western series, Trackdown as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman from 1957-1959.
The 1980s brought him back to television. He starred as FBI Agent Bill Maxwell on The Greatest American Hero and also had a recurring role as Warren Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond. In all, Culp gave hundreds of performances in a career spanning more than 50 years. Biography
Culp married five times and fathered three sons - Joshua (1958), Jason (1961), and Joseph (1963) - and two daughters - Rachel (1964) and Samantha (1982). From 1967 to 1970, he was married to Eurasian (Vietnamese-French) actress France Nguyen (known as France Nuyen), whom he had met when she guest-starred on I Spy. She appeared in four episodes, two of them written by Culp himself. His grandson, Elmo Kennedy O'Connor, is a rapper and performs under the alias Bones.
Culp wrote scripts for seven I Spy episodes, one of which he also directed. He would later write and direct two episodes of The Greatest American Hero. He also wrote scripts for other television series, including Trackdown, a two-part episode from The Rifleman, and Cain's Hundred.
He was a friend of Hugh Hefner, with whom he often played poker and frequently visited at the Playboy Mansion.
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