Hot on the heels of yesterday's obit for author Allan Asherman comes word of another passing: actor David McCallum has died at age 90.
Among Baby Boomers, McCallum is best remembered for his portrayal of secret agent Illya Kuryakin on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in the 1960s, while modern TV audiences knew him as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (a character he played for 20 years) on NCIS.
Whenever I think of McCallum, it's usually for his science-fiction & horror roles on TV, such as the two stellar Outer Limits episodes he starred in: The Sixth Finger and The Forms of Things Unknown, an atmospheric Night Gallery entitled The Phantom Farmhouse, a short-lived 1975 NBC series, The Invisible Man, and—years after its original run ended on British TV—I enjoyed MaCallum's pairing with Joanna Lumley in their proto X-Files show, Sapphire and Steel.
In the YouTube video embedded above, you can listen to Henry Mancini's classy theme to NBC's The Invisible Man, which starred McCallum, Melinda Fee, and Craig Stevens.
David McCallum (1933-2023) R.I.P.
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