Editing Robert Culp

{{short description|American actor (1930–2010)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = 
| image              = Robert Culp 1965.JPG
| caption            = Culp in a publicity photo in 1965
| birth_name         = Robert Martin Culp
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1930|8|16}}
| birth_place        = [[Oakland, California]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2010|3|24|1930|8|16}}
| death_place        = [[Los Angeles]], California, U.S.
| resting_place      = Sunset View Cemetery, [[El Cerrito, California]]
| education          = {{plainlist|
*[[University of the Pacific (United States)|University of the Pacific]]
*[[Washington University in St. Louis]]
*[[San Francisco State University]]
*[[University of Washington School of Drama]]
}}
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actor|screenwriter}}
| years active       = 1953–2010
| spouse             ={{ubl|{{marriage|Elayne Carroll|1951|1956|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Nancy Wilner|1957|1966|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|[[France Nuyen]]|1967|1970|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|[[Sheila Sullivan]]|1971|1976|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Candace Faulkner|1981}}}}
| children           = 5, including [[Joseph Culp]]
| relatives          = [[Bones (rapper)|Elmo Kennedy "Bones" O'Connor]] (grandson)
}}
'''Robert Martin Culp''' (August 16, 1930 – March 24, 2010) was an American actor and screenwriter widely known for his work in television.<ref>{{cite news| title=I Spy star Robert Culp dies after a fall |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/i-spy-star-robert-culp-dies-after-a-fall-twpf6jxfb3x |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=April 5, 2010 |access-date=January 6, 2025}}</ref> Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on ''[[I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy]]'' (1965–1968), the [[espionage]] television series in which he and co-star [[Bill Cosby]] played [[secret agent]]s. Before this, he starred in the [[CBS]]/[[Four Star Television|Four Star]] [[Western (genre)|Western]] series ''[[Trackdown (TV series)|Trackdown]]'' as [[Texas Ranger Division|Texas Ranger]] Hoby Gilman in 71 episodes from 1957 to 1959. The 1980s brought him back to television as FBI Agent Bill Maxwell on ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]''. Later, he had a recurring role as Warren Whelan on ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'', and was a voice actor for various computer games, including ''[[Half-Life 2]]''. Culp gave hundreds of performances in a career spanning more than 50 years.

==Early life and education==
Culp was born on August 16, 1930, in either [[Oakland, California]], or [[Berkeley, California]].<ref name=WaPo>{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=T. Rees |title=Robert Culp dead; actor conveyed charm and wit on TV's 'I Spy' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032403038.html |access-date=January 11, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=March 25, 2010 |quote=Robert Martin Culp was born Aug. 16, 1930, either in Oakland or Berkeley, Calif., according to biographical sources. }}</ref> He was the only child of Crozier Cordell Culp, an attorney, and his wife, Bethel Martin Culp (née Collins). He graduated from [[Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California)|Berkeley High School]], where he was a [[pole vault]]er and took second place at the 1947 [[CIF California State Meet]].<ref name="LA Times Obit">{{cite news |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-25-la-me-robert-culp25-2010mar25-story.html |title=Robert Culp dies at 79; actor starred in 'I Spy' TV series |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=March 25, 2010 |access-date=March 25, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/stateres.htm |title=California State Meet Results-1915 to present |website=Hank Lawson |access-date=December 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006092406/http://www.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/stateres.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Culp attended the [[University of the Pacific (United States)|University of the Pacific]] in [[Stockton, California]], and later [[Washington University in St. Louis]], [[San Francisco State University|San Francisco State]], and the [[University of Washington School of Drama]], but never completed an [[academic degree]].<ref name="NY Times Obit">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/television/25culp.html |title=Robert Culp, Star in 'I Spy,' Dies at 79 |first=William |last=Grimes |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804055303/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/television/25culp.html |archive-date=August 4, 2023 |access-date=February 25, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> He also received acting training at [[HB Studio]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hbstudio.org/about-hb-studio/alumni/ |website=HB Studio |title=Alumni |access-date=August 12, 2023 }}</ref>

==Career==
===Television performances===
[[File:Robert Culp Trackdown 1957.JPG|left|thumb|upright=.9|Culp as Ranger Gilman in the 1957–1959 TV Western ''[[Trackdown (TV series)|Trackdown]]'']]

Culp came to national attention early in his career as the star of the 1957–1959 CBS Western television series ''[[Trackdown (TV series)|Trackdown]]'', in which he played Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman, based in the town of Porter, Texas. It was one of Culp's many appearances in TV Westerns. The pilot for ''Trackdown'' was "Badge of Honor", a 1956 episode of ''[[Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre]]'', in which Culp starred as Gilman.

In 1960, he appeared in two more episodes of ''Zane Grey Theatre'', playing different roles in "Morning Incident" and "Calico Bait".<ref>{{cite web |title=Zane Grey Theatre |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/zane-grey-theatre/episodes-season-4/1000235516/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=[[TV Guide]] |language=en}}</ref> After ''Trackdown'' ended in 1959 after two seasons, Culp continued to work in television, including a guest-starring role as Stewart Douglas in the 1960 episode "So Dim the Light" of CBS's [[anthology series]] ''[[The DuPont Show with June Allyson]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The June Allyson Show |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-june-allyson-show/episodes-season-1/1000252482/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=TV Guide |language=en}}</ref> In the summer of 1960, he guest-starred on [[David McLean (actor)|David McLean]]'s [[NBC]] Western series ''[[Tate (TV series)|Tate]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tate |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/tate/episodes-season-1/1000175117/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=TV Guide |language=en}}</ref>

He played Clay Horne in the series finale, "Cave-In", of the CBS Western ''[[Johnny Ringo (TV series)|Johnny Ringo]]'', starring [[Don Durant]]. In 1961, Culp played the part of Craig Kern, a morphine-addicted soldier, in the episode "Incident on Top of the World" in the CBS series ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]''. About this time, Culp was cast on the NBC anthology series, ''[[The Barbara Stanwyck Show]]'' and in the NBC [[American Civil War|Civil War]] drama, ''[[The Americans (1961 TV series)|The Americans]]''. Culp was cast as Captain Shark in a first-season episode of NBC's ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' (1964). Some of his more memorable performances were in three episodes of the science-fiction anthology series on ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'' (1963–1965), including the classic "[[Demon with a Glass Hand]]", written by [[Harlan Ellison]]. In the 1961 season, he guest-starred in an episode of NBC's Western ''[[Bonanza]]'' titled "Broken Ballad". In the 1961–1962 season, he guest-starred on ABC's [[crime drama]] ''[[Target: The Corruptors!]]'' and that network's ''[[The Rifleman]].'' In the 1962–1963 season, he guest-starred in NBC's modern Western series ''[[Empire (1962 TV series)|Empire]]'' starring [[Richard Egan (actor)|Richard Egan]].

In 1964, Culp played Charlie Orwell, an alcoholic veterinarian, in an episode of ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]'' (NBC 1962–1971) titled "The Stallion". That same year, he appeared in yet another Western, ''[[Gunsmoke]]''. In the series' episode "Hung High", he portrays an outlaw named Joe Costa, who attempts to frame Matt Dillon for lynching a prisoner who had killed the marshal's friend. In 1965, he was cast as Frank Melo in "The Tender Twigs" of [[James Franciscus]]'s NBC education drama series, ''[[Mr. Novak]]''.

Culp then played perhaps his most memorable character, American secret agent Kelly Robinson, who operated [[undercover]] as a touring [[tennis]] professional, for three years on the hit NBC series ''I Spy'' (1965–1968), with co-star [[Bill Cosby]]. Culp wrote the scripts for seven episodes, one of which he also directed and an episode earned him an Emmy nomination for writing. For all three years of the series, he was also nominated for an acting Emmy (Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series category), but lost each time to Cosby.

[[File:Robert Culp Kamala Devi I Spy 1966.JPG|thumb|upright=.9|With [[Kamala Devi (actress)|Kamala Devi]] in ''I Spy'', 1966]]
In 1968, Culp also made an uncredited cameo appearance as an inebriated Turkish waiter on ''[[Get Smart]]'', the spy-spoof comedy series, in an ''I Spy'' parody episode titled "Die Spy". In this, secret agent Maxwell Smart played by [[Don Adams]] in effect assumes Culp's Kelly Robinson character, as he pretends to be an international table-tennis champion. The episode faithfully recreates the ''I Spy'' theme music, montage graphics, and back-and-forth banter between Robinson and Scott, with actor/comedian [[Stu Gilliam]] imitating Cosby.

In 1971, Culp, [[Peter Falk]], [[Robert Wagner]], and [[Darren McGavin]] each stepped in to take turns with [[Anthony Franciosa]]'s rotation of NBC's series ''[[The Name of the Game (TV series)|The Name of the Game]]'' after Franciosa was fired, alternating a lead role of the lavish, 90-minute show about the magazine business with [[Gene Barry]] and [[Robert Stack]]. Also in 1971, he portrayed an unemployed actor, the husband of ambitious [[Angie Dickinson]], in the TV movie ''See the Man Run''. Culp played the murderer in three ''[[Columbo]]'' episodes ("Death Lends a Hand" in 1971, "The Most Crucial Game" in 1972, "Double Exposure" in 1973) and also appeared in the 1990 episode "Columbo Goes to College" as the father of one of two young murderers. He also played the murderer in the pilot episode of ''[[Mrs. Columbo]]'' starring [[Kate Mulgrew]] in the title role.

In 1973, Culp almost took the male lead in the sci-fi television series ''[[Space: 1999]]''. During negotiations with creator and executive producer [[Gerry Anderson]], Culp expressed himself to be not only an asset as an actor, but also as a director and producer for the proposed series. The part instead went to [[Martin Landau]].<ref>''Starburst'' issue 8 (April 1979).</ref>

Culp co-starred in ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'' as tough veteran [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] Special Agent Bill Maxwell, who teams up with a high-school teacher who receives superpowers from extraterrestrials. He wrote and directed the second-season finale episode "Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell", with free rein to do the episode as he saw fit. The show lasted three years from 1981 to 1983.<ref name="LA Times Obit"/> He reprised the role in the spin-off pilot ''The Greatest American Heroine''. During that time, Culp was rumored to replace Larry Hagman as J. R. Ewing in ''Dallas.'' However, Culp firmly denied this, insisting he would never leave his role as Bill Maxwell. 

Culp reunited with Cosby on ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' in the episode "Bald and Beautiful" (1987), playing Dr. Cliff Huxtable's old friend Scott Kelly. The name was a combination of their ''I Spy'' characters' names. In ''[[I Spy Returns]]'' (1994), a nostalgic television movie, Culp and Cosby reprised their roles as Robinson and Scott for the first time since 1968. Culp and Cosby reunited one last time on the television show ''[[Cosby (TV series)|Cosby]]'' in an episode entitled "My Spy" (1999), in which Cosby's character, Hilton Lucas, dreams he is Alexander Scott on a mission with Kelly Robinson. 

Culp appeared on episodes of other television programs, including ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' where he played Simon, Blanche's beau, in the episode "Like the Beep Beep Beep of My Tom Tom" (1990) when Blanche needs a pacemaker, as well as ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'', ''[[Matlock (1986 TV series)|Matlock]]'', ''[[Who's the Boss?]]'', ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]'', ''[[The Nanny]]'', and ''[[Wings (1990 TV series)|Wings]]''. From 1995 to 1996, he was the voice of the character Halcyon Renard in the Disney adventure cartoon ''[[Gargoyles (TV series)|Gargoyles]]''. Culp also appeared on ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'' as Lyle Pike in the episode "Trust No One" (1995). 

From 1996 to 2004, Culp had a recurring role on ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' as Warren Whelan, the father of [[Debra Barone]] and father-in-law of [[Ray Barone]]. He played a CIA agent and the father of Dr. Jesse Travis on ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'' in the episode "Discards" (1997), along with [[Barbara Bain]], [[Robert Vaughn]], and [[Patrick Macnee]]. In 2007, he did a voice-over on the stop-motion sketch comedy ''[[Robot Chicken]]''.

===Film performances===
Culp worked as an actor in many theatrical films,<ref name=CNN/> beginning with three in 1963: As naval officer John F. Kennedy's good friend Ensign George Ross in ''[[PT 109 (film)|PT 109]]'', as legendary [[gunslinger]] [[Wild Bill Hickok]] in ''The Raiders'', and as the debonair fiancé of [[Jane Fonda]] in ''[[Sunday in New York]]''.

He starred in ''[[Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice]]'' in 1969, with [[Natalie Wood]]. Another memorable role came as another gunslinger, Thomas Luther Price, in ''[[Hannie Caulder]]'' (1971) opposite [[Raquel Welch]]. A year later, ''[[Hickey & Boggs]]'' reunited him with Cosby for the first time since ''I Spy''. Culp also directed this feature film, in which Cosby and he portray over-the-hill private eyes. In 1986, he had a primary role as General Woods in the comedy ''[[Combat Academy]]''. Culp played the [[U.S. President]] in [[Alan J. Pakula]]'s 1993 murder mystery, ''[[The Pelican Brief (film)|The Pelican Brief]]''.

===Other appearances===
Culp appeared in the 1993 [[live action]] [[video game]] ''[[Voyeur (video game)|Voyeur]]'' as the game's villain, industrialist/politician Reed Hawke. He lent his voice to the digital character [[Dr. Wallace Breen]], the prime [[antagonist]] in the 2004 [[computer game]] ''[[Half-Life 2]]''. The video clip of "[[Guilty Conscience (song)|Guilty Conscience]]" features Culp as an erudite and detached narrator describing the scenes where [[Eminem]] and [[Dr. Dre]] rap lyrics against each other. He only appears in the music video. In the album version, the narrator is Mark Avery.

On November 9, 2007, on ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'', host [[Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] interviewed Culp about the actor's career and awarded Culp with the distinction "TV Icon of the Week".

===Screenwriter===
Culp wrote scripts for seven ''I Spy'' episodes, one of which he also directed. He later wrote and directed two episodes of ''The Greatest American Hero'', including the series finale. Culp also wrote scripts for other television series, including ''Trackdown'', a two-part episode from ''[[The Rifleman]]'', and ''[[Cain's Hundred]]''.

==Personal life==
Culp was married five times:<ref name="NY Times Obit"/> to Elayne Carroll (1951–1956), Nancy Ashe (1957–1966), French actress [[France Nuyen]], whom he met when she guest-starred on ''I Spy'' (1967–1970), [[Sheila Sullivan]] (1971–1976), and Candace Faulkner (from 1981).<ref name=Ind>{{cite news |first=Anthony |last=Hayward |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/robert-culp-actor-who-played-the-secret-agent-partner-of-bill-cosby-in-i-spy-1928054.html |title=Robert Culp: Actor who played the secret agent partner of Bill Cosby in 'I Spy' |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |location=London |date=March 26, 2010}} <!-- This and a few other sources state he was also divorced from Faulkner. --></ref>

In addition to appearing in four episodes of ''I Spy'', two of them written by Culp, in 1969 Nuyen also co-hosted the second episode of the TV comedy ''[[Turn-On]]'' with him, but the program was never shown, as the series was [[List of television series canceled after one episode|cancelled after its first airing]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Bart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hXojAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Robert+Culp%22+%22+France+Nuyen%22+%22Turn+ON%22 |title=The Worst TV Shows--ever: Those TV Turkeys We Will Never Forget ... (no Matter how Hard We Try) |last2=Dunning |first2=Brad |date=1980 |publisher=Dutton |isbn=978-0-525-47592-7 |page=195 |language=en}}</ref>

Culp had three sons and a daughter with his second wife, and a daughter with his fifth wife.<ref name=Ind/> His son [[Joseph Culp]] is an actor and director; his son Jason Culp is a voice actor who has narrated many audiobooks.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narrators/jason-culp/ |magazine=[[AudioFile (magazine)|AudioFile]] |title=Narrators |access-date=January 6, 2025}}</ref> Culp's grandson, Elmo Kennedy O'Connor, is a rapper and performs under the alias [[Bones (rapper)|Bones]].<ref>{{cite news |title=L.A. rapper Bones has some of the eeriest videos in the music business, and a sound all his own |newspaper=[[LA Weekly]] |url=http://www.laweekly.com/music/la-rapper-bones-has-some-of-the-eeriest-videos-in-the-music-business-and-a-sound-all-his-own-4198954 |access-date=February 27, 2016}}</ref>

==Death==
On March 24, 2010, Culp died at age 79 after a fall while walking near [[Runyon Canyon Park]] in Los Angeles.<ref name="LA Times Obit"/><ref name=CNN>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/24/obit.robert.culp/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325033245/http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/24/obit.robert.culp/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 25, 2010|title=Actor Robert Culp dies after fall |first=Todd |last=Leopold|website=[[CNN]] |access-date=October 29, 2021}}</ref> He was buried at Sunset View Cemetery in [[El Cerrito, California|El Cerrito]].<ref>{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/archaeologyofhol0000bahn/page/220/mode/2up?q=culp| title=The Archaeology of Hollywood| first=Paul G.| last=Bahn| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield| date=April 14, 2014| page=221| isbn=978-0-7591-2379-3}}</ref> A memorial service was held at [[Grauman's Egyptian Theater]] in Los Angeles on April 10, 2010.<ref>{{cite web| title=Sharing Robert Culp's Memorial Service| url=https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/ispytvculpcosby/sharing-robert-culp-s-memorial-service-t1576.html| website=I Spy TV| date=April 13, 2010| access-date=January 6, 2025}}</ref>
 
At the time of his death, Culp had just completed performing a supporting role as Blakesley in the film ''The Assignment''. He was also working on several screenplays, including an adaptation of the story of ''[[Terry and the Pirates (comic strip)|Terry and the Pirates]]'' that had already been accepted for filming and was scheduled to start production in [[Hong Kong]] in 2012, with Culp [[Film director|directing]]. ''Terry and the Pirates'' had been Culp's favorite [[comic strip]] as a boy, and it was his longtime wish to make a film based on it.<ref name="NY Times Obit"/><ref name="LA Times Obit"/><ref name=WaPo/>

==Selected filmography==
{{Div col}}
* 1957 ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' (Season 2 Episode 33: "A Man Greatly Beloved") as Clarence
* 1957–1959 ''[[Trackdown (TV series)|Trackdown]]'' (TV series) (71 episodes) as Hoby Gilman
* 1957–1960 ''[[Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre]]'' (TV series) (3 episodes)
**(Season 1 Episode 27: "Badge of Honor") (1957) as Hoby Gilman 
**(Season 4 Episode 26: "Calico Bait") (1960) as Deputy Sam Applegate
**(Season 5 Episode 12: "Morning Incident") (1960) as Shad Hudson  
* 1960 ''Outlaws'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 1: "Thirty a Month") as Sam Yadkin
* 1960 ''[[The Westerner (TV series)|The Westerner]]'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 10: "Line Camp") as Shep Prescott
* 1960–1962 ''[[The Rifleman]]'' (TV series) (2 episodes)
**(Season 2 Episode 19: "Hero") (1960) as Colly Vane
**(Season 4 Episode 20: "The Man from Salinas") (1962) as Dave Foley
* 1961 ''[[Hennesey]]'' (TV series) (Season 2 Episode 15: "The Specialist") as Dr. Steven Gray
* 1961 ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'' (TV series) (Season 3 Episode 12: "Incident at the Top of the World") as Craig Kern
* 1961 ''[[The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor]]'' (TV series) (Season 2 Episode 23: "Bad Apple") as Herbert Sanders
* 1961 ''[[87th Precinct (TV series)|87th Precinct]]'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 1: "The Floater") as Curt Donaldson
* 1961 ''[[Bonanza]]'' (TV series) (Season 3 Episode 6: "Broken Ballad") as Ed Payson
* 1961 ''[[Target: The Corruptors!]]'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 10: "To Wear a Badge") as Meeker
* 1963 ''[[Empire (1962 TV series)|Empire]]'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 18: "Where the Hawk is Wheeling") as Jared Mace
* 1963 ''[[PT 109 (film)|PT 109]]'' as Ensign George 'Barney' Ross
* 1963 ''[[Sunday in New York]]'' as Russ Wilson
* 1963 ''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]'' (Season 2 Episode 10: "Good-Bye, George") as Harry Lawrence
* 1963–1964 ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'' (TV series) (3 episodes)
**(Season 1 Episode 3: "[[The Architects of Fear]]") (1963) as Allen Leighton
**(Season 1 Episode 9: "[[Corpus Earthling]]") (1963) as Dr. Paul Cameron
**(Season 2 Episode 5: "[[Demon with a Glass Hand]]") (1964) as Trent 
* 1964 ''[[Rhino!]]'' as Dr. Jim Hanlon
* 1964 ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 4: "The Shark Affair") as Captain Shark
* 1964 ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' (TV series) (Season 10 Episode 8: "Hung High") as Joe Costa
* 1965–1968 ''[[I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy]]'' (TV series) (82 episodes) as Kelly Robinson / Chuang Tzu
* 1968 ''[[Get Smart]]'' (TV series) (Season 3 Episode 25: "Die, Spy") as Waiter (uncredited)
* 1969 ''[[Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice]]'' as Bob Sanders
* 1970 ''[[ITV Saturday Night Theatre]]'' (TV series) (Season 2 Episode 39: "Married Alive") as Colonel Peter Jardine
* 1970 ''[[The Name of the Game (TV series)|The Name of the Game]]'' (TV series) (2 episodes) as Paul Tyler
**(Season 3 Episode 3: "Cynthia is Alive and Living in Avalon")
**(Season 3 Episode 8: "Little Bear Died Running")
* 1971 ''[[Hannie Caulder]]'' as Thomas Luther Price
* 1971 ''See the Man Run'' (TV movie) as Ben Taylor
* 1971–1990 ''[[Columbo]]'' (TV series) (4 episodes)
**(Season 1 Episode 2: "Death Lends a Hand") (1971) as Investigator Brimmer 
**(Season 2 Episode 3: "The Most Crucial Game") (1972) as Paul Hanlon
**(Season 3 Episode 4: "Double Exposure") (1973) as Dr. Bart Kepple
**(Season 10 Episode 1: "Columbo Goes to College") (1990) as Jordan Rowe  
* 1972 ''[[Hickey & Boggs]]'' (director) as Frank Boggs
* 1972 ''[[What's My Line?]]'' (TV series)
* 1973 ''[[A Cold Night's Death]]'' (TV movie) as Robert Jones
* 1973 ''[[A Name for Evil]]'' as John Blake
* 1973 ''[[Shaft (TV film series)|Shaft]]'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 1: "The Enforcers") as Marshall Cunningham
* 1973 ''[[Outrage (1973 film)|Outrage]]'' (TV movie) as Jim Kiler
* 1973 ''[[Match Game]]'' (TV series) as himself - Team Captain
* 1974 ''[[Houston, We've Got a Problem]]'' (TV movie) as Steve Bell
* 1974 ''[[The Castaway Cowboy]]'' as Calvin Bryson
* 1975 ''[[A Cry for Help (1975 film)|A Cry for Help]]'' (TV movie) as Harry Freeman
* 1975 ''[[Inside Out (1975 film)|Inside Out]]'' as Sly Wells
* 1975-1979 ''[[Police Story (1973 TV series)|Police Story]]'' (TV series) (3 episodes)
**(Season 2 Episode 14: "Year of the Dragon: Part 1") (1975) as Detective John Darrin
**(Season 2 Episode 15: "Year of the Dragon: Part 2") (1975) as Detective John Darrin
**(Season 6 Episode 1: "A Cry for Justice") as Sergeant Price 
* 1976 ''[[Sky Riders]]'' as Jonas Bracken
* 1976 ''[[Breaking Point (1976 film)|Breaking Point]]'' as Frank Sirrianni
* 1976 ''[[The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday]]'' as Jack Colby
* 1976 ''[[Flood!]]'' (TV movie, Irwin Allen Production) as Steve Brannigan
* 1976 ''[[Silver Streak (film)|Silver Streak]]'' as FBI Agent (uncredited)
* 1977 ''[[Spectre (1977 film)|Spectre]]'' (TV movie) as William Sebastian
* 1979 ''[[Hot Rod (1979 film)|Hot Rod]]'' (TV movie) as T. L. Munn
* 1979 ''[[Goldengirl]]'' as Steve Esselton
* 1980 ''[[The Dream Merchants (miniseries)|The Dream Merchants]]'' (TV mini-series) (2 episodes) (Episode 1 and Episode 2) as Henry Farnum
* 1981–1983 ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'' (TV series) (44 episodes) as Bill Maxwell
* 1983 ''[[National Lampoon's Movie Madness]]'' as Paul Everest (segment "Success Wanters")
* 1985 ''[[Turk 182]]'' as Mayor Tyler
* 1986 ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' (TV series) (Season 2 Episode 12: "Murder by Appointment Only") as Norman Amberson
* 1986 ''[[The Gladiator (1986 film)|The Gladiator]]'' (TV movie) as Lieutenant Frank Mason
* 1986 ''[[The Blue Lightning]]'' (TV movie) as Lester Mclnally
* 1986 ''[[Combat High]]'' as General Woods
* 1987 ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' (TV series) (Season 3 Episode 23: "Bald and Beautiful") as Scott Kelly
* 1987 ''[[Matlock (1986 TV series)|Matlock]]'' (TV series) (2 episodes) as Robert Irwin
**(Season 2 Episode 5: "The Power Brokers: Part 1")
**(Season 2 Episode 6: "The Power Brokers: Part 2")
* 1987 ''[[Highway to Heaven]]'' (TV series) (Season 3 Episode 21: "Parent's Day") as Ronald James
* 1987 ''[[Big Bad Mama II]]'' as Daryl Pearson
* 1989 ''Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog'' as Gregor
* 1989 ''[[Who's the Boss?]]'' (TV Series) (Season 6 Episode 12: "Gambling Jag") as Jason
* 1990 ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' (TV series) (Season 5 Episode 17: "Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom Tom") as Simon
* 1991 ''[[Timebomb (1991 film)|Timebomb]]'' as Mr. Phillips
* 1993 ''[[The Pelican Brief (film)|The Pelican Brief]]'' as The President of The United States
* 1994 ''[[The Nanny]]'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 20: "Ode the Barbra Joan") as Stewart Babcock
* 1994 ''[[Wings (1990 TV series)|Wings]]'' (TV series) (Season 6 Episode 10: "The Wrong Stuff") as 'Ace' Galvin
* 1995 ''[[Panther (film)|Panther]]'' as Charles Garry
* 1995 ''[[Xtro 3: Watch the Skies]]'' as Major Guardino
* 1995 ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'' (TV series) (Season 3 Episode 16: "Trust No One") as Lyle Pike
* 1996 ''[[Spy Hard]]'' as Businessman
* 1996–2004 ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' (TV series) (11 episodes) as Warren Whelan
* 1997 ''[[Most Wanted (1997 film)|Most Wanted]]'' as Dr. Donald Bickhart
* 1998 ''[[Conan the Adventurer (1997 TV series)|Conan the Adventurer]]'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 14: "Red Sonja") as King Vog
* 1998 ''[[Holding the Baby (U.S. TV series)|Holding the Baby]]'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 3: "Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner")
* 1998 ''Wanted'' as Father Patrick
* 1998-1999 ''[[The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs]]'' (TV series) (13 episodes) as Agent Three (voice)
* 1999 ''Unconditional Love'' as Karl Thomassen
* 1999 "[[Guilty Conscience (song)|Guilty Conscience]]" by [[Eminem]] (music video) as narrator
* 2000 ''Innocents'' as Judge Winston
* 2000 ''Newsbreak'' as Judge McNamara
* 2000 ''[[Chicago Hope]]'' (TV series) (Season 6 Episode 18: "Devoted Attachment") as Benjamin Quinn
* 2000 ''[[Running Mates (2000 film)|Running Mates]]'' (TV movie) as Senator Parker Gable
* 2001 ''[[Farewell, My Love]]'' as Michael Reilly
* 2001 ''[[Hunger (2001 film)|Hunger]]'' as Chief
* 2003 ''[[The Dead Zone (TV series)|The Dead Zone]]'' (TV series) (Season 2 Episode 9: "The Man Who Never Was") as Jeffrey Grissom
* 2004 ''[[The Almost Guys]]'' as The Colonel
* 2004 ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' (video game) as Dr. Wallace Breen (voice)
* 2005 ''[[Santa's Slay]]'' as Grandpa Yuleson
* 2006 ''[[Half-Life 2: Episode One]]'' (video game) as Dr. Wallace Breen (voice)
* 2007 ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' (TV series) (Season 3 Episode 7: "Yancy the Yo-Yo Boy") as Bill Maxwell / Sheriff of Nottingham (voice)
* 2010 ''The Assignment'' as Blakesley (final film role)
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