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
Average
7

Law & Order

(1990) Craig Holland
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Average
7

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(1985) Lieutenant Cavanaugh
NCIS
Average
8

NCIS

(2003) Donald 'Ducky' Mallard
Perry Mason
Average
8

Perry Mason

(1957) Phillipe Bertain
Murder, She Wrote
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8

Murder, She Wrote

(1984) Drew Garrison
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
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8

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

(2008) Merlin (voice)
JAG
Average
7

JAG

(1995) Donald Mallard
Babylon 5
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8

Babylon 5

(1994) Dr. Vance Hendricks

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
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

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