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David McCallum
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Actor Born: September 19, 1933 in Glasgow, Scotland Biography:"David McCallum"'s parents were both members of the London Philharmonic; his mother was a cellist and his father was first violinist. The young Scots-born McCallum himself planned to pursue a musical career after serving with the Royal West African Frontier Force, but decided instead upon acting. Following his studies at the RADA, McCallum entered films in 1957, where he was usually cast as a troublemaking street punk or callow junior officer. His first American film (albeit lensed principally in England) was "Freud" (1962), in which he played a profoundly mother-obsessed mental patient.
McCallum became the rage of the teeny-bopper set when he was cast as cool-headed Russian secret agent Ilya Kuryakin on TV's "The Man From UNCLE" (1964-68). At one point, McCallum was receiving far more fan mail than the series' ostensible star, "Robert Vaughn"; he took advantage of his celebrity to launch a brief... Full Biography
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