The NYT article linked above includes many raves from readers who remember him in The Great Escape.
And @Little_Nemo the last time I saw the term tontine was in an Agatha Christie mystery, but supposedly she uses it inaccurately:
Tontine - Wikipedia
@terentii Harold Bride was 22: Harold Bride - Wikipedia
And David McCallum was 24 when he played him.
Noted, thanks for the correction.
The last time I saw the movie, I was surprised by how thin David was in 1958. I don’t know if I would have recognized him if he hadn’t spoken.
Look at you all talking about David McCallum as though you have never even heard of Sapphire And Steel. You guys!
I don’t blame them for not mentioning The Invisible Man, though.
Other than never having seen an episode of NCIS, I could have written this post. He was one of my very first crushes as a young girl. :swoon:
RIP, Mr. McCallum.
Some of us also remember him from The Invisible Man (one-season 1970’s version) and Sapphire and Steel, too.
The truth is, he never stopped working. If you check out his Wikipedia entry you’ll find that he worked steadily in both TV and film, and later voice-over for video games, for decades. He was fortunate to have two roles that were notable to the general US audience forty years apart, but “come-back” isn’t how I’d describe his body of work.
Especially for a second marriage.
He did a small guest role on Law & Order back in the '90s. He’s the guy at the beginning of the episode who finds the dead body.
i remember that show. i enjoyed it.
I was desperately in love with Ilya Kuryakin back in the day. In comparison, Robert Vaughn was a smarmy, oily, dated-looking ‘James Bond Wanna-Be’. I never saw NCIS but am impressed he worked so long! (He was once married to Jill Ireland, who later married Charles Bronson). RIP, Mr. McCallum.
I also kind of remember him from a guest role on Babylon 5. I vaguely recall it not ending well for him.
We’ve heard of it. We were just saving him the embarrassment.
Don’t diss S&S! Why, it had some of the finest BBC special effects of the 1970’s. Do you think a non-existent time-traveling capsule on top of a London roof happens by accident? 
More seriously - S&S was better than The Invisible Man series, which just couldn’t decide if it was a serious drama or a comedy.
This really feels like an end of an era for me. McCallum was on TV and in film all of my life, even when he wasn’t in a starring role he was still a frequent visitor in my entertainment life. He will be missed.
He was a classically trained musician, anyone who listened to 90s hip hop and rap will recognize elements of his 1968 song “The Edge”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9jHiifI74Q
Since looking into my genealogy I have been tuned into David McCallum. I have no reason to think we are related but one branch of my family is from the same clan.
He was married to Jill Ireland for 10 years and 3 kids before that. It put a damper on his friendship with Charles Bronson when she married him less than a year later. It didn’t take McCallum to marry his wife either. That was a man who liked being married.
When you laid them out in order, the backs formed a poster of Illya and Napoleon. I had the complete set, but lost it over time.
When I heard that they were making a movie of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” I thought that he was an obvious choice to play Mr. Waverly, Leo G. Carroll in the TV series. I understand that many people dislike that kind of cameo, but I can’t imagine why. But the movie didn’t do very well, anyway.
Is anyone else who appeared in “The Great Escape” still with us? John Leyton, one of the Tunnel Kings, with Charles Bronson, seems to be still alive at 87.
He reprised his role as Ilya Kuryakin in The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. in 1983, when he was 50 (!) Still did the stunts, too.
Hard to believe that was forty years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Man_from_U.N.C.L.E.
And does anyonme recall his two Outer Limits appearances? He played the Welsh miner who gets mutated into Future Man in “The Sixth Finger”
Didn’t I mention that? ‘The Sixth Finger’ is the one I’ve found most people remembered him from. Most old people anyway, doesn’t seem like many younger had heard of him at all unless they were NCIS fans. That episode is just another reason I think the Outer Limits was a better and more significant show than Twilight Zone.
Doesn’t hold for Robin.
Was it only one poster? I vaguely recall they made up into one each. But maybe they were just at opposite sides of a single picture.
Mine also vanished long ago…