Robert Culp died near his home in Hollywood at age 79 on March 24. According to the BBC, police said he accidentally hit his head.
Culp was a television star in the 1960s and he performed in the classic The Outer Limits science fiction series. Although Mr. Culp was cast in film as well, playing JFK’s good friend in PT109 and opposite Jane Fonda in Sunday in New York, Culp was best known as agent Kelly Robinson, starring with Bill Cosby in I Spy—a groundbreaking show at the time because it was the first television series to feature an African-American main character.
With Culp as Kelly Robinson and Cosby playing Alexander Scott, the show featured wisecracking, swashbuckling spies who hid their identity with a cover story that the two were tennis pros. I Spy ran from 1965 to 1968, during the American Civil Rights Movement.
Culp more recently appeared on Everybody Loves Raymond.
