2023-09-26 08:12:21
As a forensic pathologist, he solved the cases of “NCIS” together with his strange colleague Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette). Now the actor David McCallum has died.
The Scottish native passed away peacefully in a New York hospital on Monday (local time) in the presence of his family, broadcaster CBS said. McCallum was 90 years old.
His father was enthusiastic about science and culture, wrote son Peter McCallum in a statement. He could both conduct an orchestra and perform an autopsy thanks to his decades of studying for the NCIS role, the obituary said.
The team from the hit series “Navy CIS”
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In the hit series about the special agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), McCallum played the forensic pathologist Dr. Mark Harmon (as chief investigator Leroy Jethro Gibbs). Donald “Ducky” Mallard.
McCallum was born in Glasgow in 1933, the son of a violinist and a cellist. He later switched from studying music to acting. After theater appearances in England, he moved to the USA in the 1960s, where he had success with the crime series “Solo for ONCEL” in the role of the Russian agent Illya Kuryakin.
He also appeared in several films, including The Damned of the Sea (1962), Broken Chains (1963), The Greatest Story of All Time (1965) and Always in Fear (1970).
Father-of-five McCallum was married to British actress Jill Ireland from 1957 to 1967, who married Hollywood star Charles Bronson shortly after the divorce. McCallum also quickly entered into a new marriage. He was married to Katherine Carpenter for 56 years until his death.
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