David McCallum
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McCallum at the 8th Annual Marine Corps Historic Half (MCHH) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, 17 May 2015.
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David Keith McCallum, Jr. 19 September 1933 Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| Alma mater | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
| Occupation | Actor, musician |
| Years active | 1947–present |
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| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
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| Children | 5 |
David Keith McCallum, Jr. (born 19 September 1933) is a Scottish actor and musician. He first gained recognition in the 1960s for playing Russian spy Illya Kuryakin in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and as interdimensional operative Steel in Sapphire & Steel.
In recent years, McCallum has gained renewed international recognition and popularity for his role as NCIS medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard in the American television series NCIS.
McCallum was born in Kirkland Street, Maryhill, Glasgow, the second of two sons of Dorothy Dorman, a cellist, and orchestral violinist David McCallum Sr. When he was three, his family moved to London for his father to play as concertmaster in the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Early in World War II, he was evacuated back to Scotland, where he lived with his mother at 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 oboe. In 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. McCallum next did his National Service, for which he was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment and seconded to the Ghana Regiment. In March 1954 he was promoted to full Lieutenant.
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