Actor Robert Culp, star of the television series I, Spy and The Greatest American Hero, as well as about a zillion other things, has died at age 79 after reportedly falling during a walk and hitting his head.Culp also had starring roles in such films as "The Castaway Cowboy," "Golden Girl," "Turk 182!" and "Big Bad Mama II."It's a fairly reliable generational predictor whether one recalls Culp more vividly as CIA Agent Kelly Robinson or FBI Agent Bill Maxwell. Believe it or not, it's just meeeeee...
His teaming with Cosby, however, was likely his best remembered role.
Cosby won Emmys for actor in a leading role all three years that "I Spy" aired, and Culp, who was nominated for the same award each year, said he was never jealous.
"I was the proudest man around," he said in a 1977 interview.
Both he and Cosby were involved in civil rights causes, and when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 the pair traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to join the striking garbage workers King had been organizing.
[Note: If there are less flattering things to be said about Culp, they have been excluded because I am unaware of them, not as the result of any deliberate intent to whitewash his life. Please feel welcome to comment on the entirety of his work and life in this thread.]
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