RIP: David McCallum

Jesus, I don't remember him being that old.

I thought he'd disappeard years ago

His life was well covered on  radio Scotland the other day, didn't know he made music as well as act

I forgot he was in the Great Escape even though I've seen it so many times although as a youngster growing up everyone wanted to be like Steve McQueen

I liked him in the WW2 classic film Mosquito Squadron, the director wanted him to have a period haircut, but he was still filmimg The man from UNCLE so insisted on keeping his 60's mop top hairdo.

His life was well covered on radio Scotland the other day, didn’t know he made music as well as act

I had no idea until this popped up on Twitter a few days ago

https://twitter.com/MikeBeauvais/status/1706441312910639292

Ah above best me to it.

Still working quite recently as Ducky in NCIS.

His dad was a orchestral violinist and I think he gave arrangement advice to/trained John Paul Jones.

Ah Illya Kuryakin - quite possibly the coolest secret agent ever...

My mother was at RADA with him 😁

I thought he’d disappeared years ago

Unless you were a regular viewer of NCIS, you wouldn’t have seen him, but I followed the series for years, and it was a great delight when he popped up, and at that time, he hadn’t been on tv for ages. He was a great character, and I loved the fact that there was a model of the Mallard locomotive on a shelf; I often wondered what American viewers would think of it.

He was good in ‘Sapphire and Steel’, too, which was weirdness personified.

RIP, David.

I recall that there was a throw-away line in one NCIS episode where Ducky commented that in his youth he was occasionally told that he looked like Ilya Kuryakin.  Cue blank looks from the younger characters...

I recall that there was a throw-away line in one NCIS episode where Ducky commented that in his youth he was occasionally told that he looked like Ilya Kuryakin. Cue blank looks from the younger characters…

I remember that moment well. Thought it was hilarious.