https://news.sky.com/story/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-star-david-mccallum-dies-aged-90-12970054
Was sorry to hear this news. I always enjoyed his performances and The Man from Uncle was a staple of my childhood TV viewing along with Top of the Pops. He was good in everything I saw him in including The Great Escape and Frankenstein: The True Story.
I remember having a Man From Uncle lunchbox in grade school.
For me he was Steel from "Saphire And Steel", a show that was far too scary for kids my age, but which we all found unmissable.
Quote from: vandermolen on September 25, 2023, 02:24:57 PMhttps://news.sky.com/story/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-star-david-mccallum-dies-aged-90-12970054
Was sorry to hear this news. I always enjoyed his performances and The Man from Uncle was a staple of my childhood TV viewing along with Top of the Pops. He was good in everything I saw him in including The Great Escape and Frankenstein: The True Story.
Loved him in the classic
Outer Limits episode, "The Sixth Finger," and the eerily romantic "Phantom Farmhouse" in
Rod Serling's Night Gallery.
He almost had a career in music:
David Keith McCallum was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to a father who was first violinist for the London Philharmonic and a mother who was a cellist. Thus he originally pursued a career in music, training on the oboe and studying for a time at the Royal Academy of Music, though he soon left and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After RADA he started performing with repertory theater companies. (source (https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-mccallum-dead-ncis-man-from-uncle-1235734772/))
Quote from: JBS on September 25, 2023, 02:50:30 PMI remember having a Man From Uncle lunchbox in grade school.
Excellent!
Quote from: San Antone on September 25, 2023, 05:52:01 PMHe almost had a career in music:
David Keith McCallum was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to a father who was first violinist for the London Philharmonic and a mother who was a cellist. Thus he originally pursued a career in music, training on the oboe and studying for a time at the Royal Academy of Music, though he soon left and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After RADA he started performing with repertory theater companies. (source (https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-mccallum-dead-ncis-man-from-uncle-1235734772/))
Most interesting! Thanks
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 25, 2023, 03:50:44 PMFor me he was Steel from "Saphire And Steel", a show that was far too scary for kids my age, but which we all found unmissable.
Yes, "Saphire And Steel" was the scariest TV show of my childhood. I even have the show on DVD. Of course nowadays with adult eyes the show is unintentionally funny rather than scary, but it has its charm and feels very nostalgic to me. Assignments II & III are my favorites.
Quote from: 71 dB on September 26, 2023, 01:15:10 AMYes, "Saphire And Steel" was the scariest TV show of my childhood. I even have the show on DVD. Of course nowadays with adult eyes the show is unintentionally funny rather than scary, but it has its charm and feels very nostalgic to me. Assignments II & III are my favorites.
He was also in 'The Invisible Man' and was excellent in 'Frankenstein: The True Story'.
Quote from: vandermolen on September 26, 2023, 01:37:43 AMHe was also in 'The Invisible Man' and was excellent in 'Frankenstein: The True Story'.
I haven't seen those. I was 4-5 years old when The Invisible Man came out in the US and I don't know if it has ever been shown on TV in Finland. Tons of TV show haven't been*. The show is available Blu-ray, but I read the picture quality is really bad. I don't pay for shit.
* For example the classic Doctor Who was never shown in Finland. I didn't know anything about it (I only knew the new Doctor Who that they showed on Finnish TV which I didn't care about because it lacks everything that makes the classic show so lovable, cosy and charming.) until I accidently discovered it on sci-fi pay tv I happened to subscribe to at that time (about 15 years ago) and the show became one of my top favourite TV shows ever (I collected all the DVDs meaning it was quite an expensive discovery!).
Quote from: 71 dB on September 26, 2023, 04:45:13 AMI haven't seen those. I was 4-5 years old when The Invisible Man came out in the US and I don't know if it has ever been shown on TV in Finland. Tons of TV show haven't been*. The show is available Blu-ray, but I read the picture quality is really bad. I don't pay for shit.
* For example the classic Doctor Who was never shown in Finland. I didn't know anything about it (I only knew the new Doctor Who that they showed on Finnish TV which I didn't care about because it lacks everything that makes the classic show so lovable, cosy and charming.) until I accidently discovered it on sci-fi pay tv I happened to subscribe to at that time (about 15 years ago) and the show became one of my top favourite TV shows ever (I collected all the DVDs meaning it was quite an expensive discovery!).
I'm old enough to have grown up with the original 'Dr Who', William Hartnell. You might enjoy a rather moving recent drama about him called 'An Adventure in Space and Time' (it's on DVD).
Rather good Guardian obituary:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/david-mccallum-obituary/ar-AA1hiapv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f62cd3af24c9429e940ce2ea95a4a47c&ei=10
McCallum is memorable as the perhaps back from the dead inventor of a time machine who encounters two murderesses of a sadistic blackmailer in "The Forms of Things Unknown" episode of The Outer Limits (1964). Bizarre and unsettling.
I missed his passing. I remember seeing him first in the best episode that The Outer Limits ever produced, The Sixth Finger. And he was critically important to Frankenstein: The True Story. Was never a super-fan of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but many of his other films were very good including the war movies, as was his appearance in Rod Serling's Night Gallery.
I confess that I didn't know much about him. I remember watching some episodes of "Man from UNCLE" way back when. Love "The Great Escape". Next time that it's on, I'll try and focus more on his character. Quickly reading Wiki, I was intrigued with his musical knowledge and talents!
PD
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on October 09, 2023, 05:02:31 PMI confess that I didn't know much about him. I remember watching some episodes of "Man from UNCLE" way back when. Love "The Great Escape". Next time that it's on, I'll try and focus more on his character. Quickly reading Wiki, I was intrigued with his musical knowledge and talents!
PD
His parents were both musicians I think. His father was the leader of one of the major London orchestras.
Quote from: Scion7 on October 09, 2023, 05:55:00 AMI missed his passing. I remember seeing him first in the best episode that The Outer Limits ever produced, The Sixth Finger. And he was critically important to Frankenstein: The True Story. Was never a super-fan of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but many of his other films were very good including the war movies, as was his appearance in Rod Serling's Night Gallery.
Frankenstein: The True Story was very good indeed.
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on October 09, 2023, 05:02:31 PMI confess that I didn't know much about him. I remember watching some episodes of "Man from UNCLE" way back when. Love "The Great Escape". Next time that it's on, I'll try and focus more on his character. Quickly reading Wiki, I was intrigued with his musical knowledge and talents!
PD
'Eric Ashley-Pitt' (Dispersal) in the Great Escape. He dies heroically.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. had this uniquely irritating earworm theme music, with those tiny bongos. As I remember the show there was an endless series of suspicious looking girls who took off some clothes to reveal their slip dress. I use the word 'girl' advisedly. That's what unmarried women were called back then,
Quote from: Herman on October 11, 2023, 11:38:55 AMThe Man From U.N.C.L.E. had this uniquely irritating earworm theme music, with those tiny bongos.
Without at all doubting you, I don't believe I remember the theme. No doubt I can find it on YouTube.
Tangentially, I've been watching
The Dick van Dyke Show (in the middle of season 2 now) and I just watched the episode on which McCallum's co-star Robt Vaughn was the guest.
Quote from: Herman on October 11, 2023, 11:38:55 AMThe Man From U.N.C.L.E. had this uniquely irritating earworm theme music, with those tiny bongos. As I remember the show there was an endless series of suspicious looking girls who took off some clothes to reveal their slip dress. I use the word 'girl' advisedly. That's what unmarried women were called back then,
Out of curiosity I looked up the theme... wish I hadn't. I'll never get it out of my mind!!
Quote from: DavidW on October 11, 2023, 02:51:16 PMOut of curiosity I looked up the theme... wish I hadn't. I'll never get it out of my mind!!
I thought it was great! I have an old LP of the music (Hugo Montenegro)
I hadn't realized that he had played "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." too. I associate him with the character Ducky from the hit tv show (here in the US at least) "NCIS".
PD
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on October 31, 2023, 06:13:00 AMI hadn't realized that he had played "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." too. I associate him with the character Ducky from the hit tv show (here in the US at least) "NCIS".
PD
That's because you're from a younger generation!
Quote from: vandermolen on October 31, 2023, 09:12:27 AMThat's because you're from a younger generation!
How young can you "make me" be? ;)
PD
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on October 31, 2023, 01:56:30 PMHow young can you "make me" be? ;)
PD
Haha - don't want to speculate but I guess that you can get some idea from people's favourite 'James Bond' (ie the one that they grew up with) or (in the UK) 'their' 'Dr Who' (in my case Sean Connery and William Hartnell - in both cases the first exponents of those roles).