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BIRTHDAY

August 16, 1930

Oakland, CA

RECENT CREDITS

The Almost Guys (FILM) Apr. 21, 2006

Santa's Slay (FILM) Jan. 1, 2004

The Pelican Brief (FILM) Jan. 1, 1998

Most Wanted (FILM) Oct. 10, 1997

Spy Hard (FILM) May. 24, 1996

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BIOGRAPHY

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Robert Culp attended several West Coast colleges while training for a dramatic career. At 21, Culp made his Broadway debut in He Who Gets Slapped. Within six years, he was starring in his own TV Western, Trackdown. During the two-year run of this program, Culp began writing scripts, a habit he'd carry over to other series, notably The Rifleman and Gunsmoke. He made his first film in 1963, thereafter appearing sporadically on the big screen, most memorably as one of the four leads in the satirical Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1968). In 1965, Culp and comedian Bill Cosby were co-starred on the popular TV series I Spy. During the second of I Spy's three seasons, Culp made his directorial debut; he went on to helm episodes for several other TV programs, as well as the 1972 theatrical feature Hickey and Boggs, in which he was reunited with Cosby. He then essayed the semicomic role of CIA chief Bill Maxwell on the weekly TVer The Greatest American Hero (1980-1982), and played such film character roles as the President in The Pelican Brief (1993). Culp co-starred with Cosby for a 1994 I Spy TV-movie reunion. Married four times, Robert Culp's third wife was Eurasian actress France Nuyen.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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'I Spy' Eddie Murphy; the Farrellys Bring Back the Stooges

Mar. 5, 2001

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 4, 2001 -- Two big-screen tributes to popular TV series are on the horizon. Owen Wilson ("Meet The Parents," "Shanghai Noon") has signed a deal to star with Eddie Murphy in Columbia Pictures' comedy "I Spy," directed by Betty Thomas ("The Brady Bunch"). And sibling writer-directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly will create an original story for a Warner Bros. Studios...

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Falling From 'Grace'?

Posted: Nov. 27, 2000

Up, Up and Away!

Posted: Feb. 28, 2000

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