David McCallum
David Keith McCallum, Jr. ( born September 19, 1933, Glasgow ) is a Scottish actor, musician and composer.
Life
McCallum, whose father David McCallum Sr. was first violinist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, studied music at the Royal Academy of Music in London, before he later joined a drama studies at the Oxford Playhouse.
From the late 1950s he played small roles in several British films of the Rank Organisation, as in a duel at the wheel with Stanley Baker and Patrick McGoohan, The Farm of the Accursed and 1958 in Roy Ward Baker's drama The last night of Titanic.
At the beginning of the 1960s he was involved in American films, including John Huston's drama about the psychoanalyst Freud, further in Herman Melville 's literary adaptation of Billy Budd and Peter Ustinov. In 1963, he was Hollywood production The Great Escape next to a star-studded international obligation for John Sturges, as in George Stevens ' The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Between 1964 and 1968 he played the Russian Illya Kuryakin secret agent in 105 episodes of the TV series Solo for Oncel, as will be alluded to in the television series NCIS. The success of the series led to several episodes edited together and published as feature films. 1972-1974 McCallum had co-starred in the British series Colditz. To the attention of the German public in 1978 he moved again by the television series The Invisible Man and the ZDF Advent Adventure Vierteiler The Adventures of David Balfour. Between 1979 and 1982 he had one of the title roles of the British television series Sapphire & Steel. In the 1980s and 1990s, McCallum was busy in the UK and U.S. series. Since 2003 he has been one of the main characters of the series NCIS, in which he represents the medical examiner Dr. Donald " Ducky " Mallard.
In the 1960s, played David McCallum, who mastered several instruments, headed by David Axelrod, a number of successful jazz and funk albums for Capitol Records one, such as 1966 Music ... A Part of Me, 1967 Music ... It's Happening Now! and Music ... A Bit More of Me and in 1968 the album McCallum.
As a renowned and successful theater actor McCallum stepped over the decades and over again on to New York and London stages.
McCallum was married from 1957 to 1967 to actress Jill Ireland, with whom he has two sons. Ireland got married in the year of divorce Charles Bronson, McCallum also married in the same year again.