Robert Culp, the actor who played Warren on Everybody Loves Raymond, died in the fall.

Robert Martin Culp died on March 24, 2010 at the age of 86.I Spy, the espionage television series in which co-star Bill Cosby and he played secret agents, earned Culp an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson.He played Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman in 71 episodes of the CBS/ Four Star Western series Trackdown from 1957 to 1959.He reprised his role as an FBI agent on The Greatest American Hero in the 1980s.He had a recurring role on Everybody Loves Raymond.In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Culp gave hundreds of performances.

On August 16, 1930, Culp was born in either Oakland or Berkeley, California.He was the only child of Crozier Cordell Culp and his wife.He was a pole vaulter at Berkeley High School and took second place at the 1947 California State Meet.[4][5]

He did not graduate from the University of the Pacific.He never completed an academic degree after attending Washington University, San Francisco State, and the University of Washington School of Drama.He received his acting training in New York City.

He was the star of the 1957–1959 CBS Western television series Trackdown, in which he played Ranger Hoby Gilman, based in the town of Porter, Texas, and he is also a Texas Ranger.It was a recurring appearance in TV Westerns."Badge of Honor", a 1956 episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, was the pilot for Trackdown.There is a citation needed.

He appeared in two more episodes of Zane Grey Theater in 1960.After Trackdown ended in 1959 he continued to work in television, including a guest-starring role as Stewart Douglas in the 1960 episode "So Dim the Light".He was a guest on the NBC Western series Tate in the summer of 1960.There is a citation needed.

"Cave-In" was the series finale of the CBS Western Johnny Ringo.In 1961, he played the part of Craig Kern in the episode "Incident on Top of the World" of Rawhide.The Barbara Stanwyck Show and the NBC Civil War drama, The Americans, were two shows that Culp was cast in.In the first season of NBC's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Culp was cast as Captain Shark.The year 1964.The classic "Demon with a Glass Hand", written by Harlan Ellison, was one of his more memorable performances.He was a guest on the NBC show in 1961.He was a guest on ABC's crime drama Target: The Corruptors!He was a guest on NBC's modern Western series Empire.

In 1964, Culp played Charlie Orwell in an episode of The Virginian.He appeared in another Western, Gunsmoke.In the series' episode "Hung High", he plays an outlaw named Joe Costa, who tries to frame Matt Dillon for lynching a prisoner who had killed a marshal's friend.In 1965, he was cast in James Franciscus's NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak.

He played the CIA secret agent Kelly Robinson for three years on the hit NBC series I Spy with Bill Cosby.One of the episodes that Culp directed and wrote earned him an Emmy nomination for writing.He was nominated for an acting Emmy for all three years of the series, but lost each time to Cosby.

In 1968, Culp made an uncredited appearance as a Turkish waiter on Get Smart, the spy-spoof comedy series.Don Adams plays a secret agent who pretends to be an international table-tennis champion in order to impersonate Kelly Robinson.The episode faithfully recreates the I Spy theme music, graphics, and back-and-forth banter between Robinson and Scott, with an actor/comedian imitating Cosby.

After Anthony Franciosa was fired from NBC's series The Name of the Game, four other actors stepped in to take his place.He played the husband of an ambitious woman in the TV movie " See the Man Run".In addition to playing the murderer in three Columbo episodes, he also appeared in the 1990 episode "Columbo Goes to College" as the father of one of two young murderers.Kate Mulgrew played the murderer in the pilot episode of Mrs. Columbo.

The male lead in Space: 1999 was almost taken by Culp.During negotiations with the creator and executive producer of the proposed series, Culp expressed his desire to be more than an actor, but also as a director and producer.Martin Landau got the part.[8]

In The Greatest American Hero, Culp played a tough veteran FBI Special Agent who teams up with a high-school teacher to battle aliens.The second-season finale episode "Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell" was written and directed by him.The show ran for three years.He reprised the role in the spin-off pilot "The Greatest American Heroine" and a voice-over on the Robot Chicken sketch comedy.Larry Hagman was rumored to be replaced by Culp in Dallas.Culp insisted that he would never leave his role as Bill Maxwell.He reprised his role as Scott Kelly on The Cosby Show in 1987.The I Spy characters' names were used in the name.

He played the father of the Barone family on Everybody Loves Raymond.The Golden Girls, The Nanny, and Wings were some of the shows he appeared on.He was the voice of Halcyon Renard in Gargoyles.

For the first time since 1968, Culp and Cosby reprised their roles as Robinson and Scott in I Spy Returns.One last time on the television show Cosby in an episode entitled "My Spy" in 1999, Cosby's character, Hilton Lucas, dreams he is Alexander Scott on a mission with Kelly Robinson."Trust No One" is an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger.He played a CIA agent and the father of a doctor on Diagnosis Murder in 1997.

As a naval officer, John F. Kennedy's good friend, and as a legendary gunslinger, Wild Bill Hickok, he was an actor.

In 1969 he starred with Natalie Wood in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.Another memorable role was that of Thomas Luther Price in Hannie Caulder.He met Cosby for the first time since I Spy a year later.Cosby and he portray over-the-hill private eyes in the film.He played General Woods in the comedy Combat Academy.In the 1993 murder mystery, The Pelican Brief, Culp played the U.S. President.

Voyeur was a live action video game where Culp was the game's villain.In the 2004 computer game Half-Life 2, he lent his voice to the digital character Doctor Breen.The video clip of "Guilty Conscience" features a narrator who is detached and erudite.He is in a music video.Mark is the narrator in the album version.

On November 9, 2007, Bill O'Reilly interviewed Culp about the actor's career and awarded him with the distinction of "TV Icon of the Week".In an episode of The Golden Girls, Culp played "Simon", who was Blanche's beau.

One of the I Spy episodes that Culp directed was a script he wrote.He wrote and directed two episodes of The Greatest American Hero.Trackdown, a two-part episode from The Rifleman, and Cain's Hundred were all written by Culp.