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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Airwolf on March 24, 2010, 07:00:10 PM
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Holy Frak another star of a great TV series is gone.
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=489813>1=28103
Robert Culp, who starred in `I Spy,' dead at 79
March 24, 2010, 4:45 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Robert Culp, the actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the racially groundbreaking TV series "I Spy" and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," died Wednesday after collapsing outside his Hollywood home, his agent said. Culp was 79.
His manager, Hillard Elkins, said the actor was on a walk when he fell. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead just before noon. The actor's son was told he died of a heart attack, Elkins said, though police were unsure if the fall was medically related.
Los Angeles police Lt. Robert Binder said no foul play was suspected. Binder said a jogger found Culp, who apparently fell and struck his head.
Culp had been working on writing screenplays, Elkins said.
"I Spy," which aired from 1965 to 1968, was a television milestone in more ways than one. Its combination of humor and adventure broke new ground, and it was the first integrated television show to feature a black actor in a starring role.
(http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ispy.jpg)
(http://www.ivy-style.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/i-spy-cosby-culp_l.jpg)
He was also on the tv series "Greatest American Hero.
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I am a little too young for I Spy and have never seen it in reruns but I do remember him from Greatest American Hero and the funny I Spy SNL skit around that time.
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I remember all of it. While a youngster, I watched it every week with my parents and thoroughly enjoyed it. I began my love of Bill Cosby during that time and my parents ended up purchasing several of his comedy albums (There is a NUT in every car) because of that show.
RIP Bob, you dun well!
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I am a little too young for I Spy and have never seen it in reruns but I do remember him from Greatest American Hero and the funny I Spy SNL skit around that time.
Aggh! Greatest American Hero was da bomb!
I forgot all about that.
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This guy was all over the place since the 1950's.
RIP Mr. Culp.
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Another great one gone RIP sir
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Sad indeed to see him go. Now it looks like Dennis Hopper is going to be the next one.
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Was Bob, Carol, Ted or Alice?