David McCallum, Actor, dead at 90

[Blackadder1916]

David McCallum obituary

Actor who found fame playing Illya Kuryakin in the 1960s television series The Man from UNCLE

www.theguardian.com

From getting rid of dirt to being a Russian heartthrob.

And as a much younger man. National Service, probably before he was commissioned in the Middlesex Regiment.

 

[OldSolduer]

Ilya Kuriakin

 

[medicineman]

Being a big NCIS fan since its inception, I quite enjoyed what "Ducky" Mallard brought to the show.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Being a big NCIS fan since its inception, I quite enjoyed what "Ducky" Mallard brought to the show.

There was

Ilya Kuriakin

 

[Blackadder1916]

By chance I watched The Great Escape (on Tubi) over the weekend. It's one of those movies that never gets old and I had once met (about forty years ago) one of the real escapers. During this re-watching, it occurred to me, of the "fifty" (in the film's version of events), David McCallum's character is the only one who could legitimately have been shot while escaping. If you recall the scene, he struggled with and shot the Gestapo officer on the train platform and then was shot while escaping. While not as cut and dried, the shooting of Donald Pleasance's character could also fall into the same category.

 

[lenaitch]

While broadly following the true events, many details of the movie were fiction, including American actors speaking really bad accents.

 

[mariomike]

While not as cut and dried, the shooting of Donald Pleasance's character could also fall into the same category.

Last op was a one-way trip in Lancaster NE112 .