MUMBAI: Robert Culp, best known for playing a secret agent alongside Bill Cosby in the 1960s cloak-and-dagger hit I Spy died on Wednesday after having a fall when he was on his routine morning walk. He was 79.

Culp, who also starred with Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was pronounced dead at a Los Angeles hospital where he was rushed after the fall.

Culp, born in Oakland, California earned his first major television role in the late 1950s Western Trackdown in which he played a Texas Ranger.

But his most famous TV role was that of Kelly Robinson, a secret agent with a double life traveling the world as a top-seeded professional tennis player in I Spy. Culp was also nominated for a Golden Globe for the film which was shot on location in Hong Kong, Acapulco and Tokyo.