Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' in the 1960s and played the eccentric medical examiner in the popular 'NCIS' 40 years later, has died. He was 90.
McCallum returned to television in 2003 in another series with an agency known by its initials — CBS'"NCIS." He played Dr. Donald"Ducky" Mallard, a bookish pathologist for the Naval Criminal Investigation Service, an agency handling crimes involving the Navy or the Marines. Mark Harmon played the NCIS boss.
"He was a scholar and a gentleman, always gracious, a consummate professional, and never one to pass up a joke. From day one, it was an honor to work with him and he never let us down. He was, quite simply, a legend, said a statement from"NCIS" Executive Producers Steven D. Binder and David North. He appeared on Broadway in a 1968 comedy,"The Flip Side," and in a 1999 revival of"Amadeus" starring Michael Sheen and David Suchet. He also was in several off-Broadway productions.
Young David attended the Royal Academy of Music where he learned the oboe. He decided he wasn't good enough, so he turned to theater, studying briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. But"I was a small, emaciated blond with a caved chest, so there weren't an awful lot of parts for me," he commented in a Los Angeles Times interview in 2009.
"It all worked out fine," McCallum said in 2009,"because soon after that I got together with Katherine and we've been very happily married for 42 years."
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