| Robert Culp | |
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| Date of Birth | August 16, 1930 |
| Date of Death | March 24, 2010 |
| Character | Warren Whelen |
| First Appearance | "In-Laws" |
| Number of episodes | 11 |
Robert Martin Culp (August 16, 1930 – March 24, 2010) was an American actor who played Warren Whelen, the father of Debra Barone.
Biography[]
He was born Robert Martin Culp on August 16, 1930, in Oakland, California. The son of attorney Crozie Culp and his wife, Bethel Collins, who was employed at a Berkeley chemical company, he offset his only-child loneliness by playacting in local theater productions. Culp also showed a talent for art while young and earned money as a cartoonist for Bay Area magazines and newspapers in high school, but the fascination with becoming an actor proved much stronger. He attended Berkeley High School and graduated in 1947. The athletically-inclined Culp dominated at track and field events and, as a result, earned athletic scholarships to six different universities. He selected the relatively minor College of the Pacific in Stockton, California primarily because of its active theater department. Transferring to various other colleges of higher learning (including San Francisco State in 1949), he never earned a degree. After performing in some theatre in the San Francisco area, he moved to Seattle and then New York in 1951.