David Keith McCallum Jr. passed away on September 25, 2023, at the age of 90, and was surrounded by his family. He was best known as a Scottish actor and musician. He gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. His other notable television roles include Carter in Colditz and Steel in Sapphire & Steel.
McCallum won a scholarship to University College School, a boys’ independent school in Hampstead, London, where, encouraged by his parents to prepare for a music career, he played the oboe. In 1946, at the age of 13, 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.
David McCallum siblings: Meet Iain McCallum
Iain McCallum is the older brother of David McCallum. Much is not recorded about his brother.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
