Robert Martin Culp was an American film and TV actor, voice actor, and screenwriter. For Disney, he played Chet Loomis in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "Sammy, the Way-Out Seal", Calvin Bryson in The Castaway Cowboy, and a businessman in Spy Hard. He also voiced Halcyon Renard in the animated TV series Gargoyles.
Culp was born on August 16, 1930 in Oakland, California and graduated from Berkeley High School, where he was a pole vaulter and took second place at the 1947 CIF California State Meet. He attended various universities but never completed an academic degree. He received his acting training at HB Studio in New York City.
Culp gained attention on television with western genre shows, such as Trackdown, The Rifleman, Rawhide, and Gunsmoke. However, he was probably best known for his roles as Kelly Robinson in the 60's series I Spy and Bill Maxwell in The Greatest American Hero in the 80's. He also had a recurring role as Warren Whelan in Everybody Loves Raymond. His other television credits included Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Columbo, Police Story, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, Highway to Heaven, The Golden Girls, The Nanny, Wings, Chicago Hope, and The Dead Zone.
His film work included Sunday in New York, Rhino!, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Hickey & Boggs, A Name for Evil, Sky Riders, Flood!, Silver Streak, National Lampoon's Movie Madness as Paul Everest, Panther, Spy Hard, Farewell, My Love, and Santa's Slay.
On March 24, 2010, Culp, at age 79, died after a fall while on a walk near Runyon Canyon Park, and had a heart attack.
