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Facts About Robert Culp
Does anybody else remember him from “I Spy?”
I have vague recollections of watching Robert Culp team with a then popular Bill Cosby in a TV show called” I Spy.” The show combined action and humor as well as excellent chemistry between Culp and Cosby. In addition, Culp played in a number of westerns, so that helped his visibility, at least with me.
Before I started writing this, I didn’t know a lot about Culp. When I started getting more information about Culp, I was surprised, and not always in a good way. With that said, here some things you didn’t know about Robert Culp.
1: He was a poker buddy of Hugh Hefner, so he spent a lot of time at the Playboy Mansion.
So, did they play Strip Poker at the Playboy Mansion?
2: Perhaps related to that, Culp was known to be very active in Southern California’s swinger subculture.
Is that like in baseball when sometimes there is a swing and a miss?
3: Culp was one of only five actors to play multiple killers in “Columbo.”
So, he was somewhat of an acting serial killer on the show.
