David Keith McCallum was 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.
Did David McCallum have a daughter?
McCallum and his wife, Katherine Carpenter have a daughter named Sophie McCallum. Sophie McCallum is a zoologist and conservationist based in the UK who has a degree in environmental studies and a special interest in endangered animals.
Sophie’s father David McCallum sadly passed away at the age of 90, David Keith McCallum was born on 19 September 1933 in Glasgow, the second of two sons of orchestral violinist David McCallum Sr. and Dorothy, a cellist.
Mr. McCallum became assistant stage manager of the Glyndebourne Opera Company. He began his acting career doing boy voices for BBC Radio in 1947 and taking bit parts in British films from the late 1950s. His first acting role was in Whom the Gods Love, Die Young playing a doomed royal.
