clipped from us.cnn.com Actor Robert Culp dies after fall By Todd Leopold, CNN Robert Culp's career included movies and television and spanned decades. Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Robert Culp, the actor who rose to fame as secret agent Kelly Robinson on the groundbreaking 1960s TV series "I Spy" and later played Ray Romano's father-in-law on "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 79. The versatile Culp not only acted in "I Spy," which aired on NBC from 1965 to 1968, he also wrote several episodes. The series, which also starred Bill Cosby as Robinson's partner (and, as their covers, trainer to Culp's globe-trotting tennis player), was the first to feature an African-American in a lead role; Cosby won three Emmys for his work. Culp and Cosby remained good friends after the series left air. Culp died of a fall in a Los Angeles park, said his publicist, Dick Delson. Delson had no further details.