Born on this day – Robert Culp:

Robert Culp

Actor

Writer

Director

August 16, 1930 – March 24, 2010

Credits:

17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2011); 87th Precinct (1961); A Cold Night's Death (1973); A Cry for Help (1975); A Man Called Sloane (1979); A Name for Evil (1973); A Secret Agent's Dilemma, or A Clear Case of Mind Over Mata Hari (1965); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); American Profile (1967); America's Book of Secrets (2012); An Evening at the Improv (1990); Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection (1978); Ben Casey (1964); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Big Bad Mama II (1987); Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western (1997); Biography (2003); Black and White: Uptight (1969); Blind Eye (2003); Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bonanza (1961); Breakaway (1984); Breaking Point (1976); Brothers-in-Law (1985); Burke's Law (1995); Cain's Hundred (1962); Cain's Hundred (1962); Calendar Girl Murders (1984); Canned Ham: The Dr. Evil Story (1999); Celebrity Bowling (1973–1976); Celebrity Sweepstakes (1974); Changing Scene IV (1971); Chicago Hope (2000); Circus of the Stars #7 (1982); Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001); Columbo (1971–1973); Columbo: Columbo Goes to College (1990); Combat High (1986); Combat! (1963); Comedy Central Canned Ham (2002); Conan the Adventurer (1998); Cosby (1999); Could It Be a Miracle? (1996–1997); Cronkite Remembers (1996); Cybermania '94: Ultimate Gamers Awards (1994); Danny Thomas' the Wonderful World of Burlesque: Third Edition (1966); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Death Valley Days (1961); Della (1969); Diagnosis Murder (1997); Dinah! (1975); Doctor Doctor (1989); Dr. Kildare (1963–1965); Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993); Dream Girl of '67 (1967); Early Bird (2005); Eminem Feat. Dr. Dre: Guilty Conscience (1999); Eminem: E / Segment: Guilty Conscience (2000); Empire (1963); Entertainment Tonight (2010); Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2004); Farewell, My Love (2000); Favorite Deadly Sins (1995); Flood (1976); For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots (2010); From Sea to Shining Sea (1974–1976); Funny You Should Ask (1969); Gargoyles (1995–1996); General Electric Theater (1960); Get Smart (1968); Give Me Liberty (1974); Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration (1994); Goldengirl (1979); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); Gunsmoke (1964); Half-Life 2 (2004); Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006); Half-Life: Through the City (2025); Hannie Caulder (1971); Hardcastle and McCormick (1984); Headliners & Legends (1998–2008); Hennesey (1961); Her Life as a Man (1984); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hickey & Boggs (1972); Highway to Heaven (1987); Historias para no dormir (1966); Holding the Baby (1998); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999); Hollywood Squares (2004); Hollywood, No Sex Please! (2018); Hot Rod (1979); Hotel (1986–1987); Houston, We've Got a Problem (1974); Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009); Hunger (2001); I Spy (1965–1968); I Spy Returns (1994); I'll Bet (1965); Innocents (2000); Inside Out (1975); Inside TV Land (2002); Insight (1963); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1970); Jake and the Fatman (1987–1991); Johnny Ringo (1960); Killjoy (1981); Kraft Theatre (1956–1957); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1956–1958); La tele de tu vida (2007); Last of the Good Guys (1978); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1994); Law & Order (1997); Les Chroniques du Mea (2020); L'Histoire nous le dira (2021); Locos por la tele (1991); Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1995); Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994); Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003); Match Game (1973); Matlock (1987); Mercenary (1996); Most Wanted (1997); Movie Madness (1982); Mr. Novak (1965); Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007); Mrs. Columbo (1979); Murder, She Wrote (1986); Murderous Vision (1991); MythBusters (2003); Naked City (1963); Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020); NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986); NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002); NBC Television Opera Theatre (1955); Newsbreak (2000); Now Is Tomorrow (1958); Operation Breadbasket (1969); Outlaws (1960); Outrage (1973); Panther (1995); Password (1974); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1968); Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter (1990); Personality (1967–1968); Philbin's People (1970); Pioneers of Television (2011–2014); Playboy Mid Summer Night's Dream Party 1985 (1985); Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (2002); Playboy's Playmate Party (1977); Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party (1979); Playwrights '56 (1956); Police Story (1975–1979); PT 109 (1963); Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog (1989); Rawhide (1961); Rhino! (1964); Robert Montgomery Presents (1957); Robot Chicken (2007); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968); Running Mates (2000); Santa's Slay (2005); Saturday Night Live (1982); Saturn Awards (1981); See the Man Run (1971); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen (1996); Shaft (1973); Sheldon Leonard's Wonderful Life (2011); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960); Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989); Silver Streak (1976); Sky Riders (1976); Spectre (1977); Spy Game (1997); Spy Hard (1996); Star Tonight (1956); Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (2005); Strange Homecoming (1974); Studio One (1953–1954); Stump the Stars (1963); Sunday in New York (1963); Tales of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice by Paul Mazursky (2003); Target: The Corruptors (1961); Tate (1960); Tattletales (1974–1977); TCM Remembers 2010 (2010); Television (1985); That's Action (1990); The $10,000 Pyramid (1974); The $25,000 Pyramid (1974–1975); The 13th Annual Genesis Awards (1999); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 2nd Annual American Comedy Awards (1988); The 32th Annual Thalians Ball (1987); The 41st Annual Academy Awards (1969); The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards (2010); The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011); The Alan Thicke Show (1981); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Almost Guys (2004); The Americans (1961); The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Milton Berle (1980); The Assignment (2010); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Big Story (1956); The Blue Lightning (1986); The Castaway Cowboy (1974); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Chris Isaak Show (2002); The Cosby Show (1987); The Dead Zone (2003); The Detectives (1961); The Don Harron Show (1983); The Dream Merchants (1980); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Famous Teddy Z (1990); The Girls Next Door (2008); The Gladiator (1986); The Golden Girls (1990); The Great Adventure (1964); The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976); The Greatest American Hero (1981–1986); The Hanged Man (1964); The Hollywood Palace (1969); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1967–1969); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2007); The Jack Benny Program (1957); The Jerry Lewis Show (1968); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The John Davidson Show (1981); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998); The Key to Rebecca (1985); The Lie (1973); The Love Boat (1980); The Magical World of Disney (1962 / 1977); The Making of 'Golden Girl' (1979); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964); The Match Game (1967); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The Mike Douglas Show (1964–1972); The Movie Maker (1964); The Name of the Game (1970); The Nanny (1994); The Night the City Screamed (1980); The Orange Box (2007); The Outer Limits (1963–1964); The Pat Boone Show (1967); The Pat Sajak Show (1989); The Pelican Brief (1993); The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993); The Raiders (1963); The Ray Bradbury Theater (1990); The Rifleman (1960–1962); The Rosey Grier Show (1969); The Secret Files of the SpyDogs (1998–1999); The Sixties (2014); The Steve Allen Show (1969); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967–1981); The Virginian (1964); The Westerner (1960); Third Annual Tennessee Cerebral Palsy Telethon (1967); Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982); Timebomb (1991); Trackdown (1957–1959); Turk 182 (1985); Turn-on (1969); Unconditional Love (1999); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1975); Viper (1997); Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990); Voyeur (1993); Wagon Train (1962); Walker, Texas Ranger (1995); Wanted (1998); Warren Oates: Across the Border (1993); What Price Victory (1988); Who's the Boss? (1989); Wings (1994); Women in White (1979); Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995); You Are There (1953); You Don't Say (1966); Zane Grey Theatre (1957–1960).

On this day in movie history - The Blue Lightning (1986):

The Blue Lightning

directed by Lee Philips,

written by William Kelley,

was released in the United States on May 7, 1986.
Music by Frank Strangio.

Cast:

Sam Elliott, Rebecca Gilling, John Meillon, Robert Coleby, Max Phipps, Robert Culp, Ralph Cotterill, Jack Davis, Ray Meagher, Michael Carman, Norman Erskine, Gary Waddell, Jeff Truman, Garry Who, Bob Barrett, Chris Pang, Peter Ford, Ernie Dingo, Leo Martin, Kenneth Radley, Dennis Hunt, Glenn Boswell, Bob Hicks, Zev Eleftheriou, Roy Edmunds.

On this day in movie history - The Gladiator (1986):

The Gladiator

directed by Abel Ferrara,

written by William Bleich, Tom Schulman and Jeffrey Walker,

based on a story by William Bleich,

was released in the United States on February 3, 1986.
Music by David Frank.

Cast:

Ken Wahl, Nancy Allen, Robert Culp, Stan Shaw, Rosemary Forsyth, Bart Braverman, Brian Robbins, Rick Dees, Michael Young, Harry Beer, Garry Goodrow, Robert Phalen, Linda Thorson, Mary Baldwin, Thom Bierdz, José Flores, Stephen Anthony Henry, Gary Lev, Jan Merlin, Georgie Paul, Mort Sertner, Jim Wilkey, Royce D. Applegate, Jeannie Epper, Lyle Gold, Helen Kelly, Mark Munski, George A. Sack Jr., Chris Sundlee.