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David McCallum

David McCallum

Birthday: 1933-09-19 | Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

David Keith McCallum, Jr. is a Scottish actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Illya Kuryakin, a Russian-born secret agent, in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as interdimensional operative Steel in Sapphire & Steel, and Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard in the series NCIS. McCallum was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the second of two sons of Dorothy Dorman, a cellist, and orchestral leader David McCallum, Sr. When he was 10, his family moved to London for his father's move to lead the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Early in the Second World War he was evacuated to Scotland, where he lived with his mother at Gartocharn by Loch Lomond.McCallum won a scholarship to University College School, a boys' independent school in Hampstead, London, where, encouraged by his parents to prepare for a career in music, he played the oboen 1946 he began doing boy voices for the BBC radio repertory company.Also involved in local amateur drama, at age 17 he appeared as Oberon in an open-air production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Play and Pageant Union. He left school at age 18 and, following military service with the Royal West African Frontier Force, attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (also in London), where Joan Collins was a classmate.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2015
Batman vs. Robin

as    Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

2014
Son of Batman

as    Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

2006
The Replacements

as    C.A.R. (voice)

1996
Death Game

as    Malius

1991
Hear My Song

as    Jim Abbott

1990
Lucky Chances

as    Bernard Dimes

1990
The Haunting of Morella

as    Gideon Locke

1988
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

as    Charlie Ritz

1986
The Wind

as    John

1985
Terminal Choice

as    Dr. Giles Dodson

1980
The Watcher in the Woods

as    Paul Curtis

1979
Kidnapped

as    Alan Breck Stewart

1978
Kidnapped

as    Alan Breck

1976
Dogs

as    Harlan Thompson

1974
Frankenstein: The True Story

as    Dr. Clervall

1972
Colditz

as    Flt. Lt. Simon Carter

1972
She Waits

as    Mark Wilson

1970
Hauser's Memory

as    Hillel Mondoro

1970
Mosquito Squadron

as    Quint Monroe

1969
Teacher, Teacher

as    Hamilton Cade

1968
How to Steal the World

as    Illya Kuryakin

1968
The Helicopter Spies

as    Illya Kuryakin

1968
Sol Madrid

as    Sol Madrid

1967
The Karate Killers

as    Illya Kuryakin