David McCallum

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mart
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David McCallum

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He's playing the head honcho in a new(to NZ) TV series called NCIS.
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Re: David McCallum

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very underrated actor, seems to have been around for ever! was once married to jill ireland until she left him for charles bronson. thought he was very good in the colditz tv series.
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Re: David McCallum

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Remember the shit TV series The Invisible Man? Was it shown in England?
I was living in HK then, and the amount of US TV shit I endured.................jesus!!

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Re: David McCallum

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seem to remember a series called sapphire and steel, i think in the late 70's.
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Re: David McCallum

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yeah invisible man there was a girl in it belinda?melinda fee? used to fancy her she reminded me of linda lovelace[to look at]he made a lp in the 60s s batman was on it im sure i read somewhere his dad was in the symphony orchestra.
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Saphire and Steel

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Quality, mature SF series positing time as something sinister and maleable. Scary too. Lumley's hoity mystique stirred many a young loin.

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Re: Saphire and Steel

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funny i thought it was stupid.
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Re: David McCallum

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I don't know what the circumstances were, but a few years back the Beeb showed a clip of the married couples on Juke Box Jury from the early 1960s--- Nina and Frederick and DM and Jill Ireland. "Yes," said the mop-haired one, "I think that was quite groovy." Toe-curlingly bad TV.
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Re: David McCallum

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I would have to say that David Mcallum was one of those big time actors from the late 70s to mid 80s who at that time with his role in the invisible man and before that in the man from uncle (I can still remember him in that polo-neck) he must have shaped a lot of peoples lifes, seeing (no puns please) the invisible man only run for seemingly 13 episodes I find hard to believe, but it just goes to show you how much people are influenced by childhood memories and the price these actors ultimately pay.
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Re: David McCallum

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I saw him in Hell Drivers, a great 1950s gritty film feayuring Stanley Baker. McCallum played a crippled younger brother.
And he was Ashley-Pitt in Great Escape and took a bullet for Big X (Attenborough) at a train station.

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