Highest rated movie: The Great Escape (1963)
Lowest rated movie: The Haunting of Morella (1990)
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Looking for reviews of David McCallum movies? Cinafilm has a total of 2,586 reviews across 23 movies.
Movies starring David McCallum have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.
The Great Escape - released in 1963 - is David McCallum's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 660 reviews.
The lowest rated film from David McCallum is The Haunting of Morella - released in 1990 - with a score of 39% based on 5 reviews.
David Keith McCallum, Jr. is a Scottish actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Illya Kuryakin, a Russian-born secret agent, in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as interdimensional operative Steel in Sapphire & Steel, and Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard in the series NCIS.
McCallum was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the second of two sons of Dorothy Dorman, a cellist, and orchestral leader David McCallum, Sr. When he was 10, his family moved to London for his father's move to lead the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Early in the Second World War he was evacuated to Scotland, where he lived with his mother at Gartocharn by Loch Lomond.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 oboen 1946 he began doing boy voices for the BBC radio repertory company.Also involved in local amateur drama, at age 17 he appeared as Oberon in an open-air production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Play and Pageant Union. He left school at age 18 and, following military service with the Royal West African Frontier Force, attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (also in London), where Joan Collins was a classmate.
David McCallum has acted in films with Robert Vaughn, Leo G. Carroll, Marianne Stone and Andrea Romano.
David McCallum has worked with these film directors: Boris Sagal, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, John Huston and Jim Wynorski.
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