David McCallum Net Worth

David McCallum's Quotes

• I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.
• But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.
• I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
• Sidney James was a great actor and a funny man.

Interesting Facts about David McCallum

1. He has a daughter, Sophie, and son, Peter, from his marriage to Katherine Carpenter. Jill Ireland and he had three children, Paul McCallum, Valentine McCallum, and an adopted son, Jason, who died on 7th November 1989 from an accidental drug overdose.
2. Father was concertmaster and violinist David McCallum Sr.; a black & white photograph from the mid-1960's of David, Sr. and David, Jr. was used during one episode of NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003). The photo can be seen in Victoria's (Ducky's mother's) bedroom in NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: The Meat Puzzle (2005).
3. One of the first Brit actors to study the Method style of acting.
4. His hobbies include golf and computing.
5. Lives on Long Island, New York.
6. Of the three original stars of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), he is the only one who never appeared on the spin-off series The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966).
7. His first wife, Jill Ireland, met her second husband, Charles Bronson, during the filming of The Great Escape (1963).
8. Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Robert Vaughn: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965) and The A-Team (1983).
9. Was stricken with rheumatic fever as a child.
10. Son, Valentine McCallum, is a respected guitarist and session musician, recording and performing with artists Jonatha Brooke, Vonda Shepard and Sheryl Crow.
11. In an interview for a retrospective television special, he told of a visit to the White House during which, while he was being escorted to meet the U.S. president, a Secret Service agent told him, "You're the reason I got this job.".
12. Along with Leonard Nimoy, Cliff Robertson, Barbara Rush and Peter Breck, he is one of only five actors to appear in both The Outer Limits (1963) and The Outer Limits (1995). He played Gwyllim Griffiths in The Outer Limits: The Sixth Finger (1963) and Tone Hobart in The Outer Limits: The Forms of Things Unknown (1964) and Joshua Hayward in The Outer Limits: Feasibility Study (1997).
13. He was diagnosed with Dupuytren's contracture (a common benign condition which involves the thickening and contracture of the fibrous connective tissue beneath the skin of the palm). He underwent surgery in mid-2009 to alleviate the condition. Other sufferers of the condition are Bill Nighy and Ronald Reagan.
14. Became close friends with Donald Pleasence and James Garner, while filming The Great Escape (1963).
15. Best known by the public for his starring roles as secret agent Illya Kuryakin on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) and as chief medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003).
16. At 14 he was a theatre electrician's assistant.
17. Attended RADA 1949 - 1951.
18. He was considered for Joe Dawson in Highlander (1992).
19. He has played the same character (Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard) in three different series: JAG (1995), NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003) and NCIS: New Orleans (2014).
20. With the deaths of James Garner on July 19, 2014 and Richard Attenborough on August 24, 2014, he is one of the two last surviving stars of The Great Escape (1963), along with John Leyton.