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Actor David McCallum has died in a hospital in New York. He was 90 years old and died of natural causes.
The born Scot McCallum already had several well-known films to his name, such as a supporting role in The Great Escapewhen he really broke through in the mid-60s thanks to the spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. He played the Russian spy Ilya Kuryakin, who, together with his American colleague Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn), battles criminals who want to take over the world. The TV series was remade in 2015 as feature film.
After four seasons and more than a hundred episodes, the series ended, after which McCallum had all kinds of supporting roles in popular TV shows such as Matlock, Murder She Wrote, Law and Order in Sex and the City.
In the late 1990s, McCallum was naturalized as an American. “I live here and I also want to vote here,” he said in an interview with the AP news agency.
His career received new impetus when he was cast as pathologist Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard in the military police series at the beginning of this century NCIS. That became one of the most watched TV series in the United States. McCallum would appear for twenty seasons and more than 450 episodes.
McCallum got a lot of enjoyment out of that role, he told Entertainment Tonight:
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