{"id":467375,"date":"2010-03-24T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9719234970b"},"modified":"2010-03-24T17:07:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:07:42","slug":"actor-robert-culp-dies-after-falling-at-his-hollywood-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/467375","title":{"rendered":"Actor Robert Culp dies after falling at his Hollywood home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Culp\"<\/img><\/a> Actor Robert Culp, best known for his role as an international tennis star and globe-trotting secret agent in the hit 1960s television series "I Spy,"\u00a0died Wednesday morning after a fall at his Hollywood home, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The 79-year-old\u00a0actor\u00a0was rushed to Queen of Angels hospital\u00a0shortly after 11\u00a0a.m. after hitting his head while taking a walk outside his home in the 1800 block of El\u00a0Cerrito Place, said LAPD Lt. Bob Binder. He was found by a jogger\u00a0who called 911, and paramedics, patrol officers and detectives responded to the scene. <\/p>\n

He was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later. A preliminary investigation found "that his death is accidental and there appears to be no sign of foul play," Binder said. An autopsy by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office is pending. <\/p>\n

Culp broke into Hollywood\u00a0in the late 1950s but catapulted to fame playing Kelly Robinson\u00a0in the hourlong 1965-68 espionage series "I Spy," which was shot in exotic locales around the world. <\/p>\n

Besides its popularity, the show also broke the color barrier for dramatic television series as the first noncomedy series to star an African American actor, Bill Cosby. <\/p>\n

Off screen, Culp\u00a0has been\u00a0active in civic causes, most recently in his efforts to oppose construction of an elephant exhibit at the Los Angeles\u00a0Zoo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In 2007,\u00a0the actor joined with\u00a0real estate agent Aaron Leider in filing\u00a0a lawsuit\u00a0against\u00a0zoo director\u00a0John Lewis and the city to stop construction of a $42-million elephant exhibit and bar the zoo from keeping elephants there, accusing authorities at the facility of withholding medical\u00a0care from the animals\u00a0and keeping them cramped in small places.<\/p>\n

Last year, after temporarily halting construction on the elephant exhibit amid a fierce debate, the City Council voted to go ahead with the project as planned.<\/p>\n

A full obituary is coming shortly from The Times.<\/p>\n

— Andrew Blankstein <\/p>\n

Photo: Robert Culp in the action-adventure television series "I Spy." <\/em><\/p>\n

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Actor Robert Culp, best known for his role as an international tennis star and globe-trotting secret agent in the hit 1960s television series "I Spy,"\u00a0died Wednesday morning after a fall at his Hollywood home, authorities said. The 79-year-old\u00a0actor\u00a0was rushed to Queen of Angels hospital\u00a0shortly after 11\u00a0a.m. after hitting his head while taking a walk outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}