... Another 76 for Robert Culp

Bill Crider reminds us that today also marks the 76th birthday of Robert Culp, the Oakland, California-born actor who played opposite Bill Cosby in the 1965-1968 TV espionage series I Spy. Culp further burnished his crime-fiction credentials by joining the cast of rotating stars on The Name of the Game, appearing as the murderer in three episodes of Columbo, and guesting on such shows as Shaft, Police Story, A Man Called Sloane, and Jake and the Fat Man. In 1994, he reunited with Cosby for the teleflick I Spy Returns, which had them complaining a lot about how they were too old for the espionage game--though that didn’t hurt the movie’s nostalgic appeal one little bit.