Sigh, Robert Culp gone

[wraithfodder]

Friend just alerted me, so I went to Google News... Robert Culp, whom I remember mostly from I SPY and GREATEST AMERICAN HERO, has passed away at age 79.

Preliminary reports - http://www.wtaq.com/news/articles/2010/mar/24/robert-culp-79-dies-after-fall/ - are that he fell and struck his head. That may very well be the case, as many older folk may momentarily lose their balance, fall and that's it, game over :(

Comments

[strange-magic.livejournal.com]

I think that makes 3 deaths in a row now right?

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

***sighs***
I always loved Kelly Robinson.......and subsequent things Culp did
He was talented in the dramatic as well as in comedy.
Very versatile.
I recall one film he did, based on a true story, where a guy battled nasty kids in his neighborhood. It is super affluent and when he reports what they are doing e.g. blowing up mail boxes etc.,
they step up the vandalism. He knows who they are
and tries to reason with their parents who are in a 'Not MY son'
mentality..soooooooooooooooooooooooooo he rents a dump truck, fills it FULL of dirt and drives it to his neighborhood and dumps it in their pools.
I still remember that film.........I cheered for him.

[casett.livejournal.com]

So sad. Loved him - one of the world's best straight men and funny on his own.

[mcsheplovers.livejournal.com]

Say it ain't so! I loved him in I Spy. He was awesome.

[mercury973.livejournal.com]

That really sucks.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm still working my way through I Spy on hulu but I remember and love him from Greatest American Hero and Raymond.

P.S. I wandered here via friendsfriends. I've known you were cool for a while, but you own sheltie puppies?! Awwww! Mind if I friend?

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

So sad :(