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RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: September 25, 2023 04:35PM
.....of natural causes.....news is just breaking....also starred in 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'.......


David McCallum, NCIS‘ Beloved ‘Ducky,’ Dead at 90

....David McCallum, who played Donald “Ducky” Mallard on NCIS for more than two decades, died Monday morning in New York. He was 90.

McCallum — who most recently appeared, remotely, in the final two episodes of NCIS‘ 20th season last spring — passed away at New York Presbyterian Hospital of natural causes.

“For over 20 years, David McCallum endeared himself to audiences around the world playing the wise, quirky, and sometimes enigmatic, Dr. Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard,” said NCIS‘ current exec producers, Seven D. Binder and David North, in a statement. “But as much as his fans may have loved him, those who worked side by side with David loved him that much more. He was a scholar and a gentleman, always gracious, a consummate professional, and never one to pass up a joke. From day one, it was an honor to work with him and he never let us down. He was, quite simply, a legend. He was also family and will be deeply missed.”....



.................RIP.........................?!





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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: September 25, 2023 04:49PM
One of The Men From U.N.C.L.E.

"... David McCallum as Russian agent Illya Kuryakin drew so much enthusiasm from fans, the agents became a team."



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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: JoeH
Date: September 25, 2023 05:10PM
For me he gave 60 years of entertaining roles, almost always good. RIP
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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: rgG
Date: September 25, 2023 05:12PM
sad smiley sad smiley sad smiley





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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: ka jowct
Date: September 25, 2023 05:31PM
Aw, sad news. Loved him in Man From UNCLE and NCIS. I read somewhere that he took his role as medical examiner very seriously, and oddly, the way he dressed for his Ducky role was uncannily like the way a real life NYC medical examiner dressed, including the bow tie, who testified before a grand jury I was on.



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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: RgrF
Date: September 25, 2023 05:50PM
RIP Mr. Kuryakin.
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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: September 25, 2023 06:24PM
Wow, this saddens me.

I too was a big fan of McCallum in U.N.C.L.E and NCIS.

In U.N.C.L.E, he was understated while Vaughn was over the top, and really not as good of an actor as McCallum.

I loved the show nonetheless, and have the trunk of DVDs to prove it.

He was no less entertaining on NCIS, and did a lot of work to portray the role of M.E. accurately.

I will miss him.


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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: September 25, 2023 06:40PM
In The Outer Limits episode The Sixth Finger.

[www.youtube.com]

"Working in a remote Welsh mining town, a rogue scientist, Professor Mathers, discovers a process that affects the speed of evolutionary mutation. Mathers suffers guilt for his role in developing a super-destructive atomic bomb, and hopes his new discovery will better the human race.

A disgruntled miner, Gwyllm Griffiths [McCallum], volunteers for an experiment that will enable the professor to create a being with enhanced mental capabilities. As a man sent forward equal to 20,000 years of evolution, Gwyllm soon begins growing an overdeveloped cortex and a sixth finger on each hand. When the mutation process begins to operate independently of the professor's influence, Gwyllm takes control of the experiment."
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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: Buzz
Date: September 25, 2023 08:49PM
R.I.P. Duckyakin
A life well lived.
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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: Steve G.
Date: September 25, 2023 09:51PM
In one of the NCIS episodes they showed Ducky as a young man...who we all know should look exactly like Ilya Kuryakin.

He didn't. We got a good chuckle out of that.
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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: September 25, 2023 10:25PM
In one episode, a doctor who'd never met Ducky asked Gibbs 'What does Ducky look like?'

Gibbs replied 'Illya Kuryakin'.

That cracked me up.

He grinned as he told her, and that cracked me up again.






I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: wurm
Date: September 26, 2023 09:58AM
Quote
RAMd®d
In one episode, a doctor who'd never met Ducky asked Gibbs 'What does Ducky look like?'

Gibbs replied 'Illya Kuryakin'.

That cracked me up.

He grinned as he told her, and that cracked me up again.

Now, that's good. And I have no idea who Ducky is because I never watched that show, although I did watch U.N.C.L.E.

I love that kind of wink wink stuff.
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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: ka jowct
Date: September 26, 2023 11:17AM
He was very good in an episode of Law & Order, as the neighbor of an ex-supermodel who gets murdered.



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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: Acer
Date: September 26, 2023 11:40AM
It just dawned on me where I know him best. He was the Invisible Man in short-lived TV series, 1975. U.N.C.L.E was before my time, but Invisible Man was iconic to 10 year old me. I still remember some of the scenes.



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Re: RIP: David McCallum at 90 [ actor on 'NCIS' ].....
Posted by: decay
Date: September 27, 2023 08:57AM
I just ordered one of his albums.

It was heavily sampled in many songs:
[www.whosampled.com]



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