David McCallum won a scholarship to University College School, a boys' independent school in Hampstead, London, where, encouraged by his parents to prepare for a career in music, he played the oboe.
28 Facts About David McCallum
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David McCallum left school at age 18 and was conscripted for National Service.
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David McCallum joined the British Army's 3rd Battalion the Middlesex Regiment, which was seconded to the Royal West African Frontier Force.
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In 1951, David McCallum became assistant stage manager of the Glyndebourne Opera Company.
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David McCallum began his acting career doing boy voices for BBC Radio in 1947 and taking bit parts in British films from the late 1950s.
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David McCallum's first acting role was in Whom the Gods Love, Die Young playing a doomed royal.
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However, in an interview with Alan Titchmarsh broadcast on 3 November 2010, David McCallum stated that he had actually held his Equity card since 1946.
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David McCallum took the role of Judas Iscariot in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told.
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David McCallum took the opportunity to construct a complex character whose appeal rested largely in what was shadowy and enigmatic about him.
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David McCallum received two Emmy Award nominations in the course of the show's four-year run for playing the intellectual and introverted secret agent.
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David McCallum appeared on stage in Australia in Run for Your Wife, and the production toured the country.
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David McCallum played supporting parts in a number of feature films, although he played the title role in the 1968 thriller, Sol Madrid.
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David McCallum starred with Diana Rigg in the 1989 TV miniseries Mother Love.
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In 1991 and 1992 David McCallum played gambler John Grey, one of the principal characters in the television series Trainer.
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David McCallum appeared as an English literature teacher in a 1989 episode of Murder, She Wrote.
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Since 2003 David McCallum has starred in the CBS television series NCIS as Dr Donald "Ducky" Mallard, the team's chief medical examiner and one of the show's most popular characters.
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David McCallum appeared at the 21st Annual James Earl Ash Lecture, held 19 May 2005 at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, an evening for honouring America's service members.
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In late April 2012, it was announced that David McCallum had reached an agreement on a two-year contract extension with CBS-TV.
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David McCallum signed an extension in 2016, beginning a limited schedule in 2017 and since then has renewed his contract for each season separately.
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David McCallum did not sing on these records, as many television stars of the 1960s did when offered recording contracts.
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However, David McCallum conducted, and contributed several original compositions of his own, over the course of four LPs.
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In 2016, David McCallum published a crime novel entitled Once a Crooked Man.
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David McCallum has stated that a second novel is in progress.
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On 11 May 1957, David McCallum married English actress Jill Ireland in London.
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Val David McCallum is a guitar player, playing on and off with Jackson Browne since 2002, Lucinda Williams from 2011 to 2016, and many others.
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David McCallum is a member of the faux country band Jackshit.
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David McCallum and his wife are active in charitable organisations that support the United States Marine Corps: Katherine's father was a Marine who served in the Battle of Iwo Jima and her brother was killed in the Vietnam War.
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On 27 August 1999, David McCallum was naturalized as a United States citizen.