Robert CulpFilmography

Santa's Slay

Actors: Bill Goldberg, Douglas Smith, Emilie de Ravin, Robert Culp, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: Jolly old Saint Nick goes from the nice list to the naughty list when an old wager runs up and his promise to be nice takes a backseat to his murderous impulses in this comic tale of terror from first-time director David Steiman. It turns out that the story of Santa Claus as we know it isn't quite Read More

The Dead Zone: The Man Who Never Was

Actors: John L. Adams, Nicole deBoer, Chris Bruno, Kristen Dalton

Synopsis: While trying to escape his adoring fans, Johnny (Anthony Michael Hall) experiences a horrifying vision: himself vanishing into nothingness after making contact with an as-yet-determined item. Soon afterward, Johnny meets a reclusive stranger, Jeffrey Grissom (Robert Culp), who has had a similar Read More

Hunger

Actors: Joseph Culp, Kathleen Luong, Redmond Gleeson

Synopsis: A young writer finds his creative principles pushed to the breaking point in this drama, which updates the story of an acclaimed 19th century novel by Knut Hamsun. Charlie Pontus (Joseph Culp) is a gifted writer who has come to Los Angeles in hope of finding success in the film industry. However Read More

Newsbreak

Actors: Michael Rooker, Judge Reinhold, Robert Culp

Synopsis: In this thriller, John McNamara (Michael Rooker) is an investigative reporter whose desire to root out a juicy story has not endeared him to many of the people he's written about, and he's lost a few jobs in the process. John wants to hold on to his latest job, but when he's assigned to write Read More

Running Mates

Actors: Tom Selleck, Laura Linney, Nancy Travis, Teri Hatcher, Bob Gunton, Bruce McGill, Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stretches his dramatic range by playing a liberal Democrat in this comedy-drama satirizing the underside of party politics. Governor James Pryce (Tom Selleck) is a well-respected politician with a strong reformist streak who is a shoo-in for the Democratic Party's presidential Read More

Dark Summer

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Connie Nielsen, Mia Kirshner, Robert Culp, Anne Archer

Synopsis: Whilst traveling about the Midwestern region of the United States, cellist Gerard Huxley (Jean-Hugues Anglade) meets two young women, sisters Megan (Connie Nielsen) and Dominique (Mia Kirshner). The women learn that their father has passed on and decide to go to Seattle to inform their mother (Anne Archer Read More

Unconditional Love

Actors: John Kennedy Horne, Tracey Ross, Henry Silva, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Leo Rossi

Synopsis: Unconditional Love stars stand-up comic John Kennedy Horne as Joe Kirkman, an investigative reporter for an L.A. newspaper. When his best friend is murdered by underlings of Ted Markham (Henry Silva), a business executive with criminal ties, Kirkman decides to get revenge the best way he knows how Read More

Most Wanted

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jon Voight, Jill Hennessy, Paul Sorvino, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Actor-comedian-talk show host Keenen Ivory Wayans stars in his own action thriller screenplay about a war hero who becomes the fall guy in a frame-up. During the Persian Gulf War, U.S. Marine Sgt. James Dunn (Wayans) refuses to shoot a young shepherd, struggles with a superior officer, and winds Read More

Law & Order: D-Girl

Synopsis: In this opening episode of Law & Order's first (and thus far only) three-part story, a female Hollywood studio executive is found murdered -- and decapitated -- in New York City. Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) head to Tinseltown to check out the suspects, among them Read More

Mercenary

Actors: Olivier Gruner, John Ritter, Robert Culp, Ed Lauter, Martin Kove

Synopsis: When kidnappers murder his wife, business tycoon Jonas Ambler vows to get revenge. He then hires a soldier-of-fortune to find them. Trouble brews when he insists on going with them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Spy Hard

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Charles Durning, Marcia Gay Harden, Barry Bostwick

Synopsis: The first of several sight gag and slapstick-rich comedies he produced without the team of Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, this lowbrow comedy from executive producer and star Leslie Nielsen suffers by comparison to his work with the "ZAZ" team. Nielsen plays Dick Steele, secret Read More

XTRO: Watch the Skies

Actors: Sal Landi, Andrew Divoff, Robert Culp, Karen Moncrieff

Synopsis: In this terrifying science fiction drama, a Marine platoon is assigned to a desert island, where as part of their mission they're told of a terrible secret. The government has not only been aware of visits by creatures from other worlds for years, they have several aliens in captivity and have Read More

Panther

Actors: Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker, Courtney Vance, Tyrin Turner

Synopsis: This controversial political drama semi-fictionalizes the history of the radical Black Panther Party, an African-American organization that polarized America from 1966-70. Huey Newton (Marcus Chong) and Bobby Seale (Courtney B. Vance) are a pair of Oakland, California, men who form a new political Read More

Lonesome Dove: The Series - Down Come Rain

Lonesome Dove: The Series - O Western Wind

Wings: The Wrong Stuff

Synopsis: Robert Culp guests in this episode as legendary former astronaut Ace Calvin. The hero-worshipping Hackett brothers hope to persuade Calvin to be the celebrity spokesman for Sandpiper Airlines. Imagine the siblings' dismay when "golden boy" Ace turns out to be an obnoxious, egocentric creep -- so Read More

I Spy Returns

Actors: Robert Culp, George Newbern, Salli Richardson, Bill Cosby

Synopsis: Though not quite as bad as it might have been, the 1994 "reunion" TV-movie I Spy Returns was some distance removed from great. Written by Michael Norell, this two-hour film is set some 25 years after the conclusion of the original I Spy weekly series. Former secret agent Alexander "Scotty" Scott Read More

Lonesome Dove: The Series - When Wilt Thou Blow

Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. Four

Synopsis: This video is volume four of a four-part series presented by PBS, featuring some of the greatest poets in the English language. In this final volume, selections are read from the pens of Shakespeare, Dryden, Hardy, Lawrence, Eliot, Parker, and Blake. Readings are presented by film celebrities Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Great American Medicine Show

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Dissolute Civil War surgeon Doc Eli (Robert Culp) is now barnstorming with his own "Kickapoo Indian Miracle Elixir" medicine show. At first regarding Eli as a charlatan, Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) is forced to rely on his long-dormant surgical skills when Myra (Helene Udy) falls victim to an ovarian Read More

The Pelican Brief

Actors: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn) Read More

Warren Oates: Across the Border

Actors: Peter Fonda, Stacy Keach, Harry Dean Stanton, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Warren Oates was a well-respected American supporting actor who achieved his greatest success during the 1960s and 70s. He chiefly played villains and losers for such innovative directors as Sam Peckinpah. This documentary, narrated by his friend Ned Beatty gives a good picture of the actor as a Read More

Timebomb

Actors: Michael Biehn, Patsy Kensit, Tracy Scoggins, Robert Culp, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: After he finds himself the target of mysterious assassins, an amnesiac (Michael Biehn) convinces a psychiatrist (Patsy Kensit) to help him remember his past. It would seem he was involved in a CIA operation that the agency does not want him to reveal. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Murderous Vision

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Laura Johnson

Synopsis: This made-for-cable-TV film focuses on a police detective (Bruce Boxleitner) bored by life in the missing-persons bureau. While on the trail of a missing mother, however, he gradually realizes that the clues lead to a gruesome serial killer. The detective gains the reluctant help of a psychic (Laura Johnson Read More

Nameless

The Arrival

Synopsis: This slick-looking but rather dreary science fiction twist on the vampire genre introduces a crash-landed alien who enters the aged, dying body of Max Page (Robert Sampson. Suddenly, Page's health takes an amazing U-turn. Max soon rises from his deathbed and checks out of the hospital with Read More

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

Actors: Eva Marie Saint, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: This made-for-television film Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair chronicles the true story of the 1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship by a group of Palestinians. Voyage of Terror is primarily told through the viewpoint of Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer (Burt Lancaster and Eva Marie Saint Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason listens to the pleas of a 13-year-old girl and helps her father who was falsely accused of murdering a gambler. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Columbo Goes to College

Synopsis: Where Columbo (Peter Falk) goes, can murder be far behind? In Columbo Goes to College, the rumpled TV sleuth shows up on campus as a guest lecturer on criminology. His visit coincides with the machinations of two rich and arrogant frat boys (Justin Rowe and Cooper Redman) who utilize "remote Read More

Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!

Actors: Richard Beymer, Bill Moseley, Samantha Scully, Eric Da Re

Synopsis: It is difficult to believe that this wretched sequel was Monte Hellman's first American film since Cockfighter (1974), and even more difficult to believe that it is the work of the man behind cult classics like Two-Lane Blacktop, The Shooting, and Back Door to Hell. The grown-up Ricky (Bill Read More

Pucker up and Bark Like a Dog

Synopsis: A socially isolated and extremely shy Los Angeles painter finds his dream girl in the form of a struggling actress and finds himself at last finding the confidence to exhibit his work in this off-beat romantic comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

What Price Victory

Big Bad Mama 2

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Robert Culp, Danielle Brisebois, Julie McCullough, Bruce Glover

Synopsis: Angie Dickinson returns as a sexy Depression-era mother who joins forces with her equally attractive daughters for a crime spree through the South as they seek to avenge the death of her husband. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cosby Show: Bald and Beautiful

Synopsis: It's an unofficial I Spy reunion when Bill Cosby's former TV costar Robert Culp shows up as Cliff Huxtable's rambunctious old Navy buddy Scotty Kelly (a composite of the two actors' character names on the earlier series). Cliff and Clair (Phylicia Rashad) are startled by the changes wrought on Read More

Combat High

Actors: Robert Culp, Keith Gordon, Wally Ward, George Clooney, Dana Hill

Synopsis: In this youthful film, to juvenile delinquents must spend a year in a military academy. They immediately begin driving their superior officers crazy. The film is also titled Combat Academy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder by Appointment Only

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) attends a cosmetics convention, where her nephew Grady (Michael Horton) has landed a job with supremely bitchy perfume manufacturer Lila Lee Amberson (Jayne Meadows). Also present is Liz Gordon (Ann Dusenberry), who had been one of Jessica's most promising writing Read More

The Gladiator

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a young Los Angeles man is killed by a drunken driver and his brother attempts to avenge his death by ridding the streets of dangerous drivers. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Blue Lightning

Actors: Robert Culp, Rebecca Gilling

Synopsis: Blue Lightning stars Sam Elliot as an American private eye operating in the Australian outback. Robert Culp is co-starred as a super-criminal in search of a valuable opal. Culp is forced to fight the ethically suspect Elliot for possession of the gem, while Rebecca Gilling vacillates as the Read More

Brothers-In-Law

Synopsis: In this Stephen Cannell-produced pilot for a potential TV detective series, Mac Davis plays an ex-highway patrolman and Joseph Cortese an ex-trucker, related by marriage. Their wives were twin sisters--were, because in addition to all the other "ex" qualifications in their lives, Davis and Cortese Read More

The Key to Rebecca

Actors: Season Hubley

Synopsis: Produced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" anthology, The Key to Rebecca is a two-part adaptation of the Ken Follett novel. Cliff Robertson stars as a British major who is determined to capture an elusive German spy during World War II.The spy in question, played by David Soul, has Read More

Turk 182!

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Robert Culp, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: Timothy Hutton stars in this rabble-rousing movie in the tradition of Rocky, directed by Bob Clark. Hutton plays Jimmy Lynch, the younger brother of New York City firefighter Terry (Robert Urich). Terry is off-duty and has been drinking but rescues a young girl for a dangerous fire. When he Read More

The Calendar Girl Murders

Actors: Sharon Stone

Synopsis: Just guess what this TV movie is about. Yes, that's right, someone is killing the centerfolds of a certain prominent girlie mag. Poor Miss March went out like a lion and now cops are trying to keep disaster from raining down on Miss April. One of the glamour girls in Calendar Girl Murders is none Read More

Her Life As a Man

Synopsis: To land a job as a sports reporter, a young woman must disguise herself as a man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Robert Culp

Actors: Robert Culp, Charlie Daniels Band

Synopsis: This 1982 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Robert Culp and features musical guest Charlie Daniels Band. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Synopsis: In this drama, an attorney tries to prove that his incarcerated client is indeed innocent of murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Greatest American Hero: Season 03

Actors: William Katt, Connie Sellecca, Robert Culp

Synopsis: The third and final season of The Greatest American Hero finds mild-mannered high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley (William Katt) continuing to battle evil and right wrongs on behalf of the FBI with the help of a super-powered flying red suit, presented to him by space aliens in season one. Those Read More

The Greatest American Hero: Season 02

Actors: William Katt, Connie Sellecca, Robert Culp, Michael Paré, Faye Grant

Synopsis: Season two of The Greatest American Hero finds the title character (played by William Katt) reverting to his original character name of Ralph Hinkley, after the March 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan by a loser named John Hinckley prompted the series' producers to hastily (and Read More

The Greatest American Hero

Synopsis: The droll Stephen J. Cannell-produced superhero parody Greatest American Hero began its two-year network run with this two-hour pilot film on March 18, 1981. William Katt stars as Ralph Hinkley, a mild-mannered schoolteacher who happens to be in the proximity of an alien spaceship landing. Also Read More

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

Actors: Peter Riegert, Diane Lane, Candy Clark, Teresa Ganzel, Anne Dusenberry

Synopsis: Originally divided into four segments and now cut to three, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies is a story about a man who is determined to get in touch with himself and sends his wife away so she can do the same thing. The next tale features a female business magnate who wreaks appropriate Read More

The Greatest American Hero: Season 01

Actors: William Katt, Connie Sellecca, Robert Culp, Michael Paré, Faye Grant

Synopsis: Season one of the tongue-in-cheek fantasy adventure series The Greatest American Hero opens with the two-hour pilot episode, wherein high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley (William Katt) and FBI agent Bill Maxwell (Robert Culp) come into possession of a red "super suit" and a book of instructions, both Read More

Who Murdered Joy Morgan?

Synopsis: Set in a city hospital, this film is essentially a whodunit -- with the resident pathologist investigating -- but was quite probably intended as a pilot for a possible series, so it plays more like a murderous version of E.R. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

The Night the City Screamed

Actors: Raymond Burr, Robert Culp, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: A big-city blackout galvanizes the plot of the made-for-TV The Night the City Screamed. Recreating recent events in New York City, the film details a crime spree that runs unchecked throughout the darkened metropolis. Mayor Raymond Burr tries to stem the tide of robberies and rapes, even as he Read More

The Dream Merchants

Actors: Vincent Gardenia, Robert Goulet, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: Old-time Hollywood director Vincent Sherman brings a glossy studio-bound look to The Dream Merchants, a two-part, four-hour adaptation of Harold Robbins' novel. The story follows the career of a pioneer filmmaker (Mark Harmon), who comes to Hollywood in the early 20th century with a pocketful of Read More

Hot Rod

Synopsis: A young racer attempts to win a dragstip competition where the outcome has already been fixed by the local mob, in this film alternately known as Hotrod and Rebel of the Road. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Mrs. Columbo: Word Games

Actors: Kate Mulgrew

Synopsis: Somehow the sleek and sophisticated Kate Mulgrew isn't whom we pictured as the wife of the eternally unkempt Lt. Columbo, but Universal Television was looking for ratings, not credibility (it got neither). Mrs. Columbo: Word Games is the 2-hour pilot for the Mrs. Columbo TV series, which premiered Read More

Roots: The Next Generations

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning Read More

Women in White

Synopsis: In this drama, the new chief of staff at a Florida hospital tries to get the place to run smoothly. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Cry for Justice

Goldengirl

Actors: Susan Anton, James Coburn, Curd Jürgens, Leslie Caron, Robert Culp

Synopsis: The very healthy looking Susan Anton is appropriately cast in Goldengirl. The daughter of a former Olympic athlete, Goldengirl (that's her name!) has been groomed for athletic competition since childhood. Her hero worship of her dad (Curt Jurgens) comes to an abrupt end when she finds out that he Read More

The Last of the Good Guys

Actors: Robert Culp, Dennis Dugan, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: If it hadn't been a TV movie, Last of the Good Guys might have made a good episode of Car 54 Where Are You? The main good guy is rookie cop Dennis Dugan, who is assigned to take over for an ailing veteran police officer. When the replaced officer dies, Dugan realizes that the man's widow will Read More

Greatest Heroes of the Bible [TV Series]

Synopsis: Originally titled Stories from the Bible, Greatest Heroes of the Bible was designed as a seven-part TV miniseries; evidently the specter of low ratings forced the network execs to telescope the presentation into four installments. The series began with the story of David (Roger Kern) and Read More

That's Action!

Synopsis: James R. Silke narrates this 1977 compilation of mayhem in the movies. This Rhino Video release features behind-the-scenes looks at how the stunts are done, and clips from 29 classic films that show heroes riding horses, falling off buildings, blowing up tanks, bare-knuckle fighting, and dodging Read More

Spectre

Actors: Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt

Synopsis: In this pilot for a TV series. Robert Culp stars as a top criminologist and dabbler in the occult. Gig Young is a drunken doctor who is "magically" cured of his alcoholism by Culp's housekeeper. Culp and Young decide to team up as the Holmes and Watson of the exorcist set. Their first assignment Read More

Breaking Point

Actors: Bo Svenson, Robert Culp, John Colicos, Belinda Montgomery, Jeffrey Lynas

Synopsis: Director Bob Clark would graduate from the Canadian Breaking Point to such films as Porky's and A Christmas Story, proving beyond a doubt that it is possible to overcome a bad start. Bo Svenson stars as a mild-mannered teacher--glasses and all. He witnesses a mob murder, whereupon he is put into a Read More

The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday

Actors: Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Elizabeth Ashley, Strother Martin

Synopsis: In this broad comedy-western set in 1908 Colorado, Lee Marvin and Oliver Reed team up as Sam Longwood and Joe Knox, two con-men who once worked as a team. They reunite in order to get revenge upon their third partner, Jack Colby (Robert Culp), who used the trio's ill-gotten gains to become a high Read More

Flood!

Actors: Barbara Hershey

Synopsis: Having already exhausted the dramatic possibilities of fire with The Towering Inferno, producer Irwin Allen turns to water in the made-for-TV Flood! The film is set in a small community, conveniently (for the purposes of the plot) located near a huge earthen dam. As the flood waters rise and the Read More

Sky Riders

Actors: James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Werner Pochath

Synopsis: In Sky Riders, the off-camera tale behind the film cast a more interesting story than the film itself: when a Greek electrician died during an explosion, the film's producer, Terry Morse Jr., was arrested by the Greek government, and executive producer Sandy Howard was detained in Greece for Read More

Inside Out

Actors: Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason, Aldo Ray, Günter Meisner

Synopsis: Telly Savalas, James Mason and Robert Culp join together to discover a hidden cache of $6 million in Nazi gold in this action caper retitled both Hitler's Gold and The Golden Heist. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

End of the Line

Synopsis: When an anonymous girl calls in saying that she is going to commit suicide, a radio announcer must garner the help of all of his radio audience to help find her to prevent her accomplishing it. This is made more difficult by the fact that he is an unpopular announcer. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Read More

A Cry for Help

Synopsis: A Cry for Help (working title: End of the Line) stars Robert Culp as an acerbic, Don Imus-like radio talk show host. When one of his callers, an anxious young woman, threatens to kill herself, Culp laughs it off. Later, however, he realizes that the girl wasn't kidding, and mounts a frantic Read More

Houston, We've Got a Problem

Synopsis: Predating the Oscar-nominated theatrical feature Apollo 13 by over two decades, the made-for-TV Houston, We've Got a Problem dramatized the same real-life crisis in space from a different point of view. It was back in 1970 when an explosion on board Apollo 13 forced Mission Control to scuttle the Read More

The Castaway Cowboy

Actors: Patrick Sullivan Burke, Nephi Hannermann, Kahana, Lee Wood, James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, Eric Shea, Elizabeth Smith

Synopsis: James Garner stars as a genial cowboy in this wholesome slice of Disney family fare. Garner is Lincoln Costain, a cowboy in the 1850s who finds himself shanghaied and shipwrecked on a Hawaiian island. He runs into luckless widow Henrietta MacAvoy (Vera Miles) and helps her turn her struggling Read More

Give Me Liberty

Synopsis: Colonial America provides the backdrop for the adventures of a peddler who comes from the wilderness into the meetings of the founding fathers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Strange Homecoming

Synopsis: A murderous robber returns home to his loving family after he serves 18 years for his crimes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Outrage

Synopsis: In this drama, a doctor becomes a vigilante to keep adolescent gang members from destroying the peace of his neighborhood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Chill Factor

Actors: Robert Culp, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: This talky but ultimately satisfying made-for-TV sci-fi/thriller stars Robert Culp and Eli Wallach as Drs. Jones and Enari, a bickering pair of scientists dispatched to a remote arctic research station to study the behavior patterns in a colony of monkeys after members of the previous research Read More

Columbo: Double Exposure

Synopsis: Double Exposure originated as an episode of the TV series Columbo. Guest star Robert Culp plays Dr. Bart Keppler, a motivational research specialist. Using (and abusing) his expertise in planting subliminal messages in the subconscious mind, Keppler lures a rival to his doom. It's the "perfect Read More

Hickey and Boggs

Crew: Director

Actors: Matt Bennett, Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Rosalind Cash, Carmen, Louis Moreno

Synopsis: The stars of the witty TV series I Spy were reunited for this downbeat crime thriller, which takes a much darker and more violent look at the lives of two detectives for hire. Al Hickey (Bill Cosby) and Frank Boggs (Robert Culp) are a pair of private eyes who are approached by an attorney to find Read More

Little Bear Died Running

Synopsis: When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, the reporter investigates. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

See the Man Run

Synopsis: Most of the "action" in See the Man Run takes place during tense telephone conversations. Robert Culp stars in this TV movie as a failed actor who accidentally intercepts a phoned-in ransom demand for a kidnapped teenage girl. Deciding to cash in on this happenstance, Culp and his wife (Angie Dickinson Read More

Hannie Caulder

Actors: Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, Jack Elam

Synopsis: It's hard to discern the filmmakers' true point of view on Hannie Caulder. On one hand, you've got the heavily somber story of Raquel Welch's efforts to exact vengeance on the men who raped her and killed her husband. On the other hand, you've got the leisurely-paced, lightly amusing sequences in Read More

A Name for Evil

Synopsis: A mid-life crisis takes a strange turn in this horror movie. The terror begins when a city couple decide to escape the hub-bub and crime and start new lives in the husband's great-grandfather's mansion located in the isolated North Woods. They are not there long before the wife finds herself Read More

Cynthia is Alive and Living in Avalon

Synopsis: Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon is a rare comic episode from the usually dead-serious TV series Name of the Game. Cynthia (Barbara Feldon) is an elusive jet-setter who has of late become a political activist. She refuses all interviews and keeps hidden in a rambling house on the island of Read More

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Actors: Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon, Horst Ebersberg

Synopsis: "Consider the possibilities," read the ads for Paul Mazursky's 1969 satirical comedy about what happens when the sexual revolution hits affluent bourgeois life. After a weekend of "beautiful" emotional honesty at an Esalen-type retreat, married wannabe hipsters Bob (Robert Culp) and Carol (Natalie Wood Read More

I Spy: Home to Judgment

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Hotly pursued by enemy agents, Kelly and Scotty head to Idaho, where they hide out on the farm of Kelly's Uncle Harry (Will Geer) and Aunt Alta (Una Merkel). Soon, however, the two spies find that they can trust no one-not even those neighbors and tradespeople whom Harry and Alta regard as their Read More

I Spy: Magic Mirror

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: France Nuyen (aka Mrs. Robert Culp) returns to I Spy as Sam-Than McLean, a role she created in the first-season episode "The Tiger." Now an American secret agent, Sam-Than proves to be a security risk when she apparently becomes the mistress of Soviet-aligned dictator General Vera (Ricardo Read More

I Spy: The War Lord

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In addition to writing the teleplay for this I Spy episode, Robert Culp also essays a dual role: Culp is seen in his tradtional guise as American secret agent Kelly Robinson, and also as powerful Chinese warlord Chuang-Tzu. On assignment in Burma, Kelly and his partner Scotty are ordered to Read More

The Movie Maker

Synopsis: The Movie Maker relates the last days of an old-fashioned Hollywood mogul. Mike Kirsch (Rod Steiger) built his studio from nothing in the 1920s; now, four decades later, he is on the way out, the victim of a corporate takeover. We follow Kirsch as he exercises his waning authority on a Read More

I Spy: Court of the Lion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: I Spy star Robert Culp made his directorial debut with the episode titled "Court of the Lion", which Culp also wrote. This time out, Kelly and Scottie are on the trail of stolen diamonds and highly radioactive isotopes. That trail leads to an oyster farm in a tiny Japanese village held in thrall Read More

I Spy: The Tiger

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Robert Culp doubled as writer and star of the I Spy episode "The Tiger." This time around, agents Kelly and Scotty must rescue famed American medical missionary Dr. Owen McLean (Lew Ayres) from a Southeast jungle. But McLeon refuses to leave with agents unless they save his daughter Sam-Than Read More

I Spy [TV Series]

Synopsis: Robert Culp and Bill Cosby starred in the TV espionage series I Spy as tennis star Kelly Robinson and his trainer, Alexander Scott. Robinson and Scott, however, were also international spies, and used Robinson's globetrotting from one tournament to the next as a cover for their high-risk Read More

I Spy: So Long, Patrick Henry

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Outspoken American Olympic star Elroy Browne (Ivan Dixon) has defected to China. Although the U.S. government would sooner wash their hands of the troublesome Browne, it is forced to go through the motions of persuading him to return to America. Agents Kelly and Scott are given the assignment to Read More

I Spy: The Loser

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Eartha Kitt won an Emmy award for her guest appearance in this tense I Spy installment. Agent Alexander Scott is kidnapped by a Hong Kong heroin-smuggling gang in retaliation for Scott and Kelly's recent $300 million drug bust. The kidnappers agree to release Scotty only when Kelly returns the Read More

The Outer Limits: O.B.I.T.

Synopsis: The seventh volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology series focuses on a surveillance system, popular throughout the globe, which is actually the product of alien technology. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Rhino!

Actors: Harry Guardino, Robert Culp, Shirley Eaton, Harry Mekela, George Lane

Synopsis: Ivan Tors, the man who made dolphins and grizzlies lovable with Flipper and Gentle Ben respectively, tries to make the magic happen for a different species in Rhino! Robert Culp and Harry Guardino play hunters without bullets, armed only with tranquilizer guns to defend themselves from African Read More

The Outer Limits: The Bellero Shield

Synopsis: Richard Bellero (Martin Landau) is a brilliant but frustrated scientist, forever failing to find approval from his wealthy, pacifist-oriented father Richard Sr. (Neil Hamilton), even when he develops a practical high-energy laser. Much to the displeasure of his ambitious wife Judith (Sally Read More

The Outer Limits: Demon with a Glass Hand

Synopsis: In Volume 37 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, the final survivor of Earth travels back in time to learn why he alone outlived the rest of humankind. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Demon with a Glass Hand

Synopsis: While a corrupt people rule the planet, a man travels back in time to 200 years past to defeat the enemy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Hanged Man

Synopsis: Don Siegal directed this made-for-TV remake of the western drama Ride The Pink Horse, in which Robert Culp stars as Harry Pace, who has set out to avenge the violent death of a good friend. Pace's search leads him to New Orleans during the Mardi Gras celebration, where he meets a beautiful woman Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Goodbye, George

Actors: Robert Culp, Stubby Kaye, Patricia Barry, Elliott Reid, Bernie Kopell

Synopsis: Popular movie star Lara Layne (Patricia Barry) is on the verge of wedding handsome Harry Lawrence (Robert Culp) when she is paid a visit by ex-convict George Cassidy (Stubby Kaye) -- who was himself married to Lara back when she was calling herself "Peaches." Lara is stunned by George's arrival Read More

Naked City: The Highest of Prizes

Pt 109

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Ty Hardin, James Gregory, Grant Williams, Lew Gallo

Synopsis: This WW II adventure chronicles the real-life courage of President John F. Kennedy when he was a Navy lieutenant in charge of the illustrious PT 109. Among the adventures they had was the courageous rescue of Marines stranded upon the isle of Choiseul. As they flee, their little boat is split in Read More

The Outer Limits: The Galaxy Being

Synopsis: Engineer Alan Maxwell (Cliff Robertson) is using his commercial radio station's antenna to probe into deep space in experiments of his own, in the course of which he makes contact with a being (William O. Douglas, Jr.) from the great nebula in the constellation Andromeda. Through an accident, the Read More

Combat!: Hill 256

Synopsis: Accused of cowardice in battle by Sgt. John Metcalf (guest star Robert Culp), Pvt. Kirby (Jack Hogan) faces both a court martial and a firing squad. Though Kirby insists that he retreated during a battle on Hill 256 in the face of heavy machine-gun fire, Metcalf claims that no such guns existed. Read More

The Outer Limits: Corpus Earthling

Synopsis: A pair of seemingly inert black crystalline rocks are actually intelligent extraterrestrial viruses planning the invasion and destruction of the Earth. Dr. Paul Cameron (Robert Culp) can hear their thoughts as they discuss their plans, a result of a metal plate in his head from a war injury that Read More

The Outer Limits: The Architects of Fear

Synopsis: The third volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series details the work of a group of scientists who attempt to better global relations by creating a fake space monster in order to frighten the people of Earth into aligning to battle a common enemy. Read More

Sunday in New York

Actors: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Jim Backus, Jo Morrow

Synopsis: Playwright Norman Krasna adapted his hit Broadway sex farce for the screen under the direction of Peter Tewksbury. Adam Tyler (Cliff Robertson) is an airline pilot who rents a pricey Manhattan apartment and has the weekend off. His prim sister Eileen (Jane Fonda), shows up to visit, complaining Read More

The Raiders

Synopsis: In this western, an ex-officer for the confederate Army becomes a Texas cattle rancher. He and his fellow ranchers are dismayed when they learn that the coming railroad intends on bypassing their ranches. The rancher then leaves his land to begin fighting the railroad. Meanwhile the railroad Read More

The Outer Limits: Zanti Misfits

Synopsis: The inhabitants of the planet Zanti establish contact with Earth, and prevail upon its inhabitants to accept custody of their criminals, whom they are incapable of executing. The Zantis demand total seclusion for the prison ship, which the humans grant out of fear that they will use their superior Read More

Sammy, the Way-Out Seal

Synopsis: This Disney family film was originally made as a two-parter for the World of Disney TV show. It is the funny and touching story of two brothers who find a rambunctious but wounded seal and try to hide it from their parents in their beach house while it heals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Death Valley Days: A Gun Is Not a Gentleman

Bonanza: Broken Ballad

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Robert Culp

Synopsis: Robert Culp guest-stars as former gunfighter Ed Payson. When he tries to buy supplies from general store owner Will Cass (Dabbs Greer), he is coldly refused service; it seems that, before hanging up his guns, Ed killed Will's son. Befriending Ed, Adam Cartwright tries to mollify Cass, but things Read More

Now Is Tomorrow

Unaired Pilot Shows / Now Is Tomorrow...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Man Greatly Beloved

Synopsis: This surprisingly warm-and-fuzzy episode is narrated by child actress Evelyn Rudie, here cast as minister's daughter Hildegarde Fell. Against the wishes of her father (Hugh Marlowe), Hildegarde insists upon trying to make friends with crabby old John Anderson (Cedric Hardwicke), an elderly recluse Read More

Robert Montgomery Presents

I Spy: Season 03

Actors: Robert Culp, Bill Cosby

Synopsis: Although the episode plotlines in the third season of I Spy are as adult and cynical as ever, the venerable espionage series has for the most part become a laugh-fest, thanks to the whimsical verbal improvisations of stars Robert Culp and Bill Cosby. Many is the time during season three that all Read More

The Rifleman: Man From Salinas

The Rifleman: The Hero

I Spy: Season 01

Actors: Robert Culp, Bill Cosby

Synopsis: American secret agents Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp) and Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) tackle an exhausting variety of international counterespionage missions while respectively posing as a champion tennis player and his athletic trainer as I Spy embarks upon its first season. Unlike other spy shows Read More

I Spy: Season 02

Actors: Robert Culp, Bill Cosby

Synopsis: Season two of I Spy finds globetrotting secret agents Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp) and Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) plying their trade in such locales as Italy, Spain, and Las Vegas -- all the while posing as a high-priced tennis bum and his athletic trainer. As in season one, the series relies Read More