I Spry? Apparently not.
(Meritorious mention for Mark)
Or
I Die
Robert Culp, half the impetus behind every biracial buddy TV show and movie over the last 40 years, has died of a heart attack at the age of 79. Culp spent 3 years as Kelly Robinson, secret agent posing as a tennis bum, with Bill Cosby as Alexander Scott, posing as his trainer on I Spy from 1965 to 1968. Culp got nominated for Emmys each year, each time losing to Cosby in the start of their twisted relationship – Cosby co-starred with Culp in Culp’s directorial debut, the detective comedy Hickey & Boggs, and Culp guested as Scott Kelly on an episode of The Cosby Show. Culp spent 3 brilliant years as Bill Maxwell, FBI handler for schoolteacher Roy Hinkley, also known as the Greatest American Hero, shepherding him from scenario to scenario. Elsewhere in his career, he and Elliott Gould gave wife-swapping an incredibly creepy name in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, played JFK’s best friend in PT 109, served as Ray Romano’s father-in-law on Everybody Loves Raymond, led the country as the president in The Pelican Brief, and starred in arguably the best episode of The Outer Limits, Demon with the Glass Hand, as a “man” with an incredible secret. Almost as notable were the roles he didn’t get – the lead in Space: 1999, when he advocated his potential to also serve as a producer and a director for the series, and the more pliable Martin Landau got the role, and the floated rumor that he would replace Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing in Dallas during a contract dispute. Coming the summer after the Who Shot JR episode with Dallas ratings at their peak, Hagman thought he had the producers over a barrel. The producers plan: the ambulance taking J.R. to the hospital the night he got shot was in a fiery crash and after the plastic surgery, J.R. gets shorter and has a new face. Culp denies he was contacted and that he loved his gig on GAH, and as someone who loved both Dallas and GAH, things worked out for the best. Culp was also vehemently opposed to Christmas, appearing in both Santa’s Slay and Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!
Or
I Die
Robert Culp, half the impetus behind every biracial buddy TV show and movie over the last 40 years, has died of a heart attack at the age of 79. Culp spent 3 years as Kelly Robinson, secret agent posing as a tennis bum, with Bill Cosby as Alexander Scott, posing as his trainer on I Spy from 1965 to 1968. Culp got nominated for Emmys each year, each time losing to Cosby in the start of their twisted relationship – Cosby co-starred with Culp in Culp’s directorial debut, the detective comedy Hickey & Boggs, and Culp guested as Scott Kelly on an episode of The Cosby Show. Culp spent 3 brilliant years as Bill Maxwell, FBI handler for schoolteacher Roy Hinkley, also known as the Greatest American Hero, shepherding him from scenario to scenario. Elsewhere in his career, he and Elliott Gould gave wife-swapping an incredibly creepy name in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, played JFK’s best friend in PT 109, served as Ray Romano’s father-in-law on Everybody Loves Raymond, led the country as the president in The Pelican Brief, and starred in arguably the best episode of The Outer Limits, Demon with the Glass Hand, as a “man” with an incredible secret. Almost as notable were the roles he didn’t get – the lead in Space: 1999, when he advocated his potential to also serve as a producer and a director for the series, and the more pliable Martin Landau got the role, and the floated rumor that he would replace Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing in Dallas during a contract dispute. Coming the summer after the Who Shot JR episode with Dallas ratings at their peak, Hagman thought he had the producers over a barrel. The producers plan: the ambulance taking J.R. to the hospital the night he got shot was in a fiery crash and after the plastic surgery, J.R. gets shorter and has a new face. Culp denies he was contacted and that he loved his gig on GAH, and as someone who loved both Dallas and GAH, things worked out for the best. Culp was also vehemently opposed to Christmas, appearing in both Santa’s Slay and Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!
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