I want to see if we have new, old, or halfway inbetween fans. Where'd you first learn to love him?
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- I first 'met' David in NCIS. But my mom 'knew' him from The Man From U.N.C.LE.You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
Sh0rti4eva wrote: I first 'met' David in NCIS. But my mom 'knew' him from The Man From U.N.C.LE. omg i am probablky about your mom's age, then!
as for myself, i wanna say uncle too but i have a sneaking suspicion i saw him first in outer limits AND in the movie a night to remember. i may have liked him in passing in those; more than in passing, yes, because he was good, and he wasn't too hard on the eyes either. but i didn't fall in love until uncle.
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You must be registered and logged in to post a message.- Definitely UNCLE, in reruns. And I've thought he was hot ever since. Although it kind of creeps me out that in real life he's only a year younger than my Dad (sorry, David!). Kinda cool to find out he was born here, in Glasgow, Scotland, I didn't know that till today.You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
CuteLioness wrote: Definitely UNCLE, in reruns. And I've thought he was hot ever since. Although it kind of creeps me out that in real life he's only a year younger than my Dad (sorry, David!). Kinda cool to find out he was born here, in Glasgow, Scotland, I didn't know that till today. oh a glaswegian! nice to see you! i never made it to glasgow (yet); i did visit edinburgh (and aberdeen, and some points between and not between) once.
i am not quite as old as david or your dad but i did see u.n.c.l.e. in its original run, so that dates me, eh? fell totally in love with illya. i forget whether i've mentioned this and i'm too lazy to check but if i had a child (and i'm too old now to do that) i would name him or her illya.
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You must be registered and logged in to post a message.pirategennie wrote: CuteLioness wrote: Definitely UNCLE, in reruns. And I've thought he was hot ever since. Although it kind of creeps me out that in real life he's only a year younger than my Dad (sorry, David!). Kinda cool to find out he was born here, in Glasgow, Scotland, I didn't know that till today. oh a glaswegian! nice to see you! i never made it to glasgow (yet); i did visit edinburgh (and aberdeen, and some points between and not between) once.
i am not quite as old as david or your dad but i did see u.n.c.l.e. in its original run, so that dates me, eh? fell totally in love with illya. i forget whether i've mentioned this and i'm too lazy to check but if i had a child (and i'm too old now to do that) i would name him or her illya.
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Actually, I'm a bit of a cheat cos I'm not really Glaswegian, but I've lived here ever since university. It's amazing, you should so visit one day, and now you have just the reason - David was born here! LOL Illya is a beautiful name, I think it's Russian for Ian. The character's middle name - Nicovitch - is Russian for son of Nicholas. Just some useless information for you!
You must be registered and logged in to post a message.CuteLioness wrote: pirategennie wrote: CuteLioness wrote: Definitely UNCLE, in reruns. And I've thought he was hot ever since. Although it kind of creeps me out that in real life he's only a year younger than my Dad (sorry, David!). Kinda cool to find out he was born here, in Glasgow, Scotland, I didn't know that till today. oh a glaswegian! nice to see you! i never made it to glasgow (yet); i did visit edinburgh (and aberdeen, and some points between and not between) once.
i am not quite as old as david or your dad but i did see u.n.c.l.e. in its original run, so that dates me, eh? fell totally in love with illya. i forget whether i've mentioned this and i'm too lazy to check but if i had a child (and i'm too old now to do that) i would name him or her illya.
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Actually, I'm a bit of a cheat cos I'm not really Glaswegian, but I've lived here ever since university. It's amazing, you should so visit one day, and now you have just the reason - David was born here! LOL Illya is a beautiful name, I think it's Russian for Ian. The character's middle name - Nicovitch - is Russian for son of Nicholas. Just some useless information for you!
ah not glawegian, from where then? you're right about my wanting to visit glasgow and some day i shall. you're right about the names, too; i have read a lot of russian lit, and love russian names. not useless at all! as ray bradbury once said, you should read everything, even if it seems silly or useless. it comes together in your head and forms a mulch! mulch is very good for growing stuff (like brain cells!) so i think no information is useless!
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You must be registered and logged in to post a message.- From Yorkshire, but I've been here long enough to feel very at home. I've even picked up a bit of an accent! Do you know how on earth David managed to avoid getting a "Weegie" brogue, as it's pretty unavoidable?!You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
CuteLioness wrote: From Yorkshire, but I've been here long enough to feel very at home. I've even picked up a bit of an accent! Do you know how on earth David managed to avoid getting a "Weegie" brogue, as it's pretty unavoidable?! he probably had voice lessons.
i've been to aberdeen as i say... and i helped an electrician rescue a tethered jacob sheep. we had a conversation while i held the muddy animal and he untied her, and at the end of the conversation i wasn't sure whether i had been thanked for helping him or was suddenly engaged!
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You must be registered and logged in to post a message.Sorry to say it was in the Man from U.N.C.L.E - only because it shows my age! but he has kept very well for his age and for us 'older' ones still not bad looking!!!
You must be registered and logged in to post a message.jtstobbs wrote: Sorry to say it was in the Man from U.N.C.L.E - only because it shows my age! but he has kept very well for his age and for us 'older' ones still not bad looking!!!
well i myself have not kept quite as well but i agree he has! as for being sorry... AHEM i earned every gray hair i have (and i PAY for my revlon colorsilk, too -- but only because i am not ALL gray. when i am i will let it show! right now, without dye, i look like a walking saddle shoe!)
not bad looking eh? he's FABULOUS looking!
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You must be registered and logged in to post a message.- UNCLE, I was just crazy about David from the first episode. and in 1987 or so I went to NYC and saw him perform in "GHOSTS" I someow managed to get to the green room and met him after the show. He was incredibly gracious. I got an autograph and a story about when he was in "Billy Budd" And i got a picture with him.You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
gwyllym wrote: UNCLE, I was just crazy about David from the first episode. and in 1987 or so I went to NYC and saw him perform in "GHOSTS" I someow managed to get to the green room and met him after the show. He was incredibly gracious. I got an autograph and a story about when he was in "Billy Budd" And i got a picture with him. wow cool! and i see you have named yourself after a character he played in the outer limits (unless you just happen to be welsh and the name is a complete coincidence) :-))
You must be registered and logged in to post a message.When Noah was building his ark ... and I was a wee girl ... the absolute love of my life ... apart from Davy Jones of The Monkees ... was Illya Kuryakin!! Napoleon Solo didn't get a look in. Of course the ark has long sailed ... but I am glad to see that David McCallum is still making waves!!
You must be registered and logged in to post a message.- yes, you are correct about the Outer Limits link. "the Sixth Finger" You know, in real life( granted i only talked to DMc for 10-15 mins tops) he seemed in many ways alot like Ducky.You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
Sapphire and Steel.
A great show: dark and off-the-wall!
David McCallum looks gorgeous in every shot (he's very brooding and mysterious.) There was such great chemistry between the two leads: David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
I think he's as sexy now as he ever was (I'm only 29 btw.) He's even sexy when he's camping-it-up (As he does so believably in the Michael Winner Flick "Dirty Weekend". The movie was a bit of a howler (as a rule, I tend to avoid anything associated with Michael Winner, I only watched it 'cause David McCallum was in it.)
You must be registered and logged in to post a message.i first met david in a movie but i cant remeber the title ... then NCIS
You must be registered and logged in to post a message.I have been a fan of David's since long before he became famous as Illya Kuryakin. While growing up in England,I used to see him on the BBC quite often (I think he was with the BCC repertory company at that time), but the first thing I can really remember is when he played Edgar Linton in "Wuthering Heights". That was 1962. None of my friends even knew who he was, and I didn't meet anyone else who "liked him" until some time later I happened to mention him to a young woman I met through work (I was working in a London publishers office at that time) and found that she liked him too. This was probably 1964 or 5. We are still friends even though she still lives in England and I in Canada.
By the way, the reason David does not have a Scottish accent (although he did have a pretty good one when he played Alan Breck Stuart in "Kidnapped") is that the family moved to London when his father became first violin of the London Philharmonic orchestra and David went to school in London. When you're young, it doesn't take long to lose your accent!
I think I may qualify as David's "oldest" fan.
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