Person Details
Birthday: 1933-09-19 12:59:13
Aliases: Illya Kuryakin , David MacCallum
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Movie Involvements: 62
TV Involvements: 36
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Law & Order
(1990) Craig HollandThe New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1985) Lieutenant CavanaughNCIS
(2003) Donald 'Ducky' MallardPerry Mason
(1957) Phillipe BertainMurder, She Wrote
(1984) Drew GarrisonBatman: The Brave and the Bold
(2008) Merlin (voice)JAG
(1995) Donald MallardBabylon 5
(1994) Dr. Vance HendricksActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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2020 | Self (archive footage) | |
2015 | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | |
2014 | Donald Mallard | |
Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | ||
2011 | N/A | |
2010 | Professor Paradox (voice) | |
2009 | Zeus (voice) | |
2008 | Merlin (voice) | |
Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | ||
2007 | N/A | |
2006 | Self | |
Self (archive footage) | ||
2003 | Donald 'Ducky' Mallard | |
2002 | Eddie | |
2001 | N/A | |
2000 | N/A | |
1999 | Mammy | |
1998 | Duncan | |
Daniel Paterson / Dimitri Petrovsky | ||
Billy Fawcett | ||
1996 | Malius | |
1995 | Donald Mallard | |
Joshua Hayward | ||
N/A | ||
1994 | Self | |
Narrator (voice) | ||
Narrator | ||
Self | ||
Dr. Vance Hendricks | ||
1993 | Self | |
Reggie | ||
Frank Cobb | ||
1992 | Cooper | |
1991 | Jim Abbott | |
Brandon Murphy | ||
1990 | Bernard Dimes | |
Craig Holland | ||
Professor Plum | ||
Gideon Locke | ||
1989 | Inspector Craig | |
Alex Vesey | ||
Charlie Ritz | ||
1988 | The Feverman | |
N/A | ||
1986 | John | |
N/A | ||
1985 | N/A | |
Lieutenant Cavanaugh | ||
Frank Lane | ||
Dr. Giles Dodson | ||
1984 | Cyril Grantham | |
Drew Garrison | ||
N/A | ||
Castile | ||
1983 | Illya Kuryakin | |
Ivan Tregorin | ||
1982 | Self | |
1980 | Paul Curtis | |
1979 | N/A | |
Steel | ||
Sir Henry Curtis | ||
1978 | Alan Breck Stewart | |
1976 | Harlan Thompson | |
1975 | Benedict Van Der Byl | |
N/A | ||
Dr. Daniel Westin | ||
1974 | Dr. Clervall | |
1973 | Dr. Henri Clerval | |
Alexi Kaslov | ||
Luke | ||
1972 | Flt. Lt. Simon Carter | |
Mark Wilson | ||
1970 | Dr. Joel Winter | |
Hillel Mondoro | ||
1969 | Kenneth Canfield | |
Sergeant Stephen Holmann | ||
Hamilton Cade | ||
Squadron Leader Quint Monroe | ||
1968 | Illya Kuryakin | |
Illya Kuryakin | ||
Sol Madrid | ||
1967 | Stanley Thrumm | |
Casino Patron (uncredited) | ||
Illya Kuryakin | ||
Illya Kuryakin | ||
Self | ||
1966 | Illya Kuryakin | |
Illya Kuryakin | ||
Dr. Philip Volker | ||
Self - Host | ||
1965 | Illya Kuryakin | |
Judas Iskarioth | ||
1964 | John Adams | |
Self | ||
Illya Kuryakin | ||
Tone Hobart | ||
Illya Kuryakin | ||
1963 | Capt. Hanning | |
Gwyllm Griffiths | ||
Tone Hobart | ||
Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal' | ||
1962 | Carl von Schlossen | |
Steven Wyatt, Gunnery Officer | ||
Edgar | ||
1961 | Lord Oakeshott | |
Pvt. Sammy Whitaker | ||
Mr. George | ||
1960 | Terry Collins | |
1958 | Eugene Wrayburn | |
Assistant Wireless Operator Harold Bride | ||
Johnnie Murphy | ||
1957 | Phillipe Bertain | |
Jimmy Yately, Tom's brother | ||
N/A | ||
Mike Wilson | ||
Sailor on Pick Up Ship (uncredited bit) | ||
Jim Marston | ||
1951 | Kenneth Canfield | |
Hamilton Cade | ||
Self | ||
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |