Robert Culp, the actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the racially groundbreaking TV series "I Spy" and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," died Wednesday, March 24, 2010 outside his Hollywood home, his manager said. Culp was 79. "I Spy," which aired from 1965 to 1968, was a television milestone in more ways than one. Its combination of humor and adventure broke new ground, and it was the first integrated television show to feature a black actor in a starring role. Both he and Cosby were involved in civil rights causes, and when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 the pair traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to join the striking garbage workers King had been organizing.
Fess Parker, a television icon to a generation of youngsters as Davy Crockett and later Daniel Boone, has died of natural causes. Parker was every baby boomer's idol in the 1950s when he launched a craze for coonskin caps. Considered "The King of the Wild Frontier", six-foot-six actor turned winemaker Fess (yes, his real name was Fess) Parker, 85, died on March 18, 2010
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