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Actor, Robert Culp, was born Robert Martin Culp on Aug 16, 1930 in Oakland, CA. Culp died at the age of 79 on Mar 24, 2010 in Los Angeles, CA .

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(August 16, 1930- March 24, 2010).

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At 21, Culp made his Broadway debut in He Who Gets Slapped. Within six years, he was starring in his own TV Western, Trackdown. Culp began writing scripts for The Rifleman and Gunsmoke. He performed on the big screen for the first time in 1963, in the film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1968... Read full article


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Both he and his "I Spy" (1965) co-star, Bill Cosby, were involved in civil rights causes and, when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, the pair traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to join the striking garbage workers King had been organizing.

It was widely reported that Culp would have replaced Larry Hagman as J.R. in "Dallas" (1978) had Hagman decided not to return to the series because of contract negotiations. However, Culp has stated that he was never asked to play the part of J.R. and was not contacted by anyone from "Dallas" (1978). At the time this took place, he was costarring as F.B.I. agent "Bill Maxwell" on ABC's "The Greatest American Hero" (1981). He loved the show and his role and has said that he would not have left the show even if the part had been offered to him.

Wrote a pilot script in 1964 for an espionage series to star himself, but opted for "I Spy" (1965) instead. He went on to write several episodes for "I Spy" (1965), including the first episode.

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