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Screenwriter, Actor
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August 16, 1930 in Oakland, CA
Biography:"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... Full Biography
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