1933-09-19 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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Charles Bronson, le génie du mâle | Self (archive footage) | 2020-11-29 |
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Batman vs. Robin | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | 2015-04-14 |
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Son of Batman | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | 2014-05-13 |
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Wonder Woman | Zeus (voice) | 2009-03-03 |
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Batman: Gotham Knight | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | 2008-07-08 |
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Doctor Who: Origins | (archival footage) | 2006-01-30 |
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March in Windy City | Daniel Paterson / Dimitri Petrovsky | 1998-05-03 |
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Death Game | Malius | 1996-09-21 |
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Titanic: The Complete Story | Narrator (voice) | 1994-07-24 |
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Dirty Weekend | Reggie | 1993-10-29 |
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Return to The Great Escape | 1993-12-31 | |
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Hear My Song | Jim Abbott | 1991-12-27 |
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Fatal Inheritance | Brandon Murphy | 1991-10-01 |
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The Haunting of Morella | Gideon Locke | 1990-02-09 |
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The Man Who Lived at the Ritz | Charlie Ritz | 1989-06-23 |
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The Return of Sam McCloud | Inspector Craig | 1989-11-12 |
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Wall of Tyranny | 1988-01-11 | |
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The Wind | John | 1987-07-23 |
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92 Grosvenor Street | 1985-12-29 | |
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Terminal Choice | Dr. Giles Dodson | 1985-05-10 |
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The Corvini Inheritance | Frank Lane | 1985-06-08 |
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The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair | Illya Kuryakin | 1983-04-05 |
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The Watcher in the Woods | Paul Curtis | 1980-04-17 |
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King Solomon's Treasure | Sir Henry Curtis | 1979-05-31 |
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Dogs | Harlan Thompson | 1976-11-11 |
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The Kingfisher Caper | Benedict Van Der Byl | 1975-06-30 |
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The Invisible Man | Dr. Daniel Westin | 1975-05-06 |
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Frankenstein: The True Story | Dr. Clervall | 1974-09-19 |
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The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War | Alexi Kaslov | 1973-10-20 |
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The Screaming Skull | Luke | 1973-01-01 |
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She Waits | Mark Wilson | 1972-01-28 |
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Hauser's Memory | Hillel Mondoro | 1970-11-24 |
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La cattura | Sergeant Stephen Holmann | 1969-11-07 |
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The File on Devlin | Kenneth Canfield | 1969-11-21 |
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Teacher, Teacher | Hamilton Cade | 1969-02-05 |
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Mosquito Squadron | Squadron Leader Quint Monroe | 1969-01-18 |
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The Helicopter Spies | Illya Kuryakin | 1968-05-23 |
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How to Steal the World | Illya Kuryakin | 1968-09-18 |
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Sol Madrid | Sol Madrid | 1968-02-07 |
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The Karate Killers | Illya Kuryakin | 1967-04-07 |
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Three Bites of the Apple | Stanley Thrumm | 1967-05-24 |
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Italy's in Season | Self | 1967-01-01 |
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The Spy in the Green Hat | Illya Kuryakin | 1967-02-03 |
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Casino Royale | Casino Patron (uncredited) | 1967-04-13 |
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One Spy Too Many | Illya Kuryakin | 1966-08-05 |
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The Big T.N.T. Show | Self - Host | 1966-01-07 |
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One of Our Spies Is Missing | Illya Kuryakin | 1966-12-01 |
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Around the World Under the Sea | Dr. Philip Volker | 1966-05-21 |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told | Judas Iskarioth | 1965-02-15 |
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The Spy with My Face | Illya Kuryakin | 1965-01-01 |
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To Trap a Spy | Illya Kuryakin | 1964-01-01 |
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The Unknown | Tone Hobart | 1964-05-04 |
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The Great Escape | Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal' | 1963-06-20 |
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Billy Budd | Steven Wyatt, Gunnery Officer | 1962-11-12 |
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Freud: The Secret Passion | Carl von Schlossen | 1962-12-12 |
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Wuthering Heights | Edgar | 1962-05-10 |
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The Long and the Short and the Tall | Pvt. Sammy Whitaker | 1961-02-28 |
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Karolina Riječka | Mr. George | 1961-01-01 |
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Jungle Street | Terry Collins | 1960-01-07 |
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Violent Playground | Johnnie Murphy | 1958-01-14 |
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A Night to Remember | Assistant Wireless Operator Harold Bride | 1958-07-03 |
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The Secret Place | Mike Wilson | 1957-02-06 |
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Robbery Under Arms | Jim Marston | 1957-01-10 |
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Hell Drivers | Jimmy Yately, Tom's brother | 1957-07-23 |
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These Dangerous Years | 1957-07-03 | |
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Ill Met by Moonlight | Sailor on Pick Up Ship (uncredited bit) | 1957-01-31 |
