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Hoby Gilman (Robert Culp) was a Texas Ranger who patrolled during the 1870s. As the show often used actual case files, it had the endorsement of the Texas Rangers and the State of Texas. No other series could claim this.
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"Robert Culp" attended several West Coast colleges while training for a dramatic career. At 21, Culp made his Broadway debut in He Who Gets Slapped. Within six years, he was starring in his own TV Western, "Trackdown". During the two-year run of this program, Culp began writing scripts, a habit he'd carry over to other series, notably The Rifleman and "Gunsmoke". He made his first film in 1963, thereafter appearing sporadically on the big screen, most memorably as one of the four leads in the satirical "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" (1968). In 1965, Culp and comedian "Bill Cosby" were co-starred on the popular TV series "I Spy". During the second of "I Spy"'s three seasons, Culp made his directorial debut; he went on to helm episodes for several other TV programs, as well as the 1972 theatrical feature "Hickey and Boggs", in which he was reunited with Cosby.
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In the early months of 1965, actor and screenwriter Robert Culp undertook a task that would change his life forever. Secretly working without the knowledge of the show's producers, he wrote several scripts for "I Spy." Ultimately these scripts would become some of the series' most popular and acclaimed shows. Now, for the first time, Robert Culp candidly reveals the intriguing story behind the scenes of "I Spy" in unique and exciting commentaries about this groundbreaking television series. Episodes: "So Long, Patrick Henry" - Heavily guarded, Browne and his fiancee, Princess Amara, arrive in Hong Kong, where Browne's endorsement of the proposed Afro-Asian Olympics will result in a propaganda coup for the Reds. Co-Starring Ivan Dixon and Cicely Tyson.
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Robert Culp was born in Berkeley, California, on August 16, 1930. His grandfather set out from Green County Tennessee in 1887 with a donkey, a cart, and another kid, and walked to California, to the gold fields. In his life he became a professional hunter, trapper, gold-miner, carpenter, cabinet-maker, electrician, house-builder, game warden and cowpuncher. By the time Robert was 12, his grandfather had taught him the basics of elemental anthropology, archaeology, geology, ecology, entomology, physics, chemistry, politics, logic, ethics, morality, and history.
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By 1996, Culp's overseas market had taken off with sales to Canada and Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Between 1989 and 1996, international sales increased at a rate of 47 percent annually from $5.3 million to $70 million, or 25 percent of sales. The emphasis on overseas selling meant that even when the domestic market in upholstery fabric was down, Culp could continue to grow. As a group at that time, upholstery manufacturers were among the most prolific exporters in the American textile industry with many companies exporting 15 to 30 percent of their fabrics. Culp was perhaps the segment's largest exporter with exports totaling about 29 percent of sales for fiscal 1998. Estimates for the year put the domestic residential fabric market at about $2.2 billion and the international market at about twice that.
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