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To: dennisw

I fervently watched The Man From Uncle. David McCallam as Illya Kuryakin and Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Waverly.


57 posted on 04/11/2022 10:59:25 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister

“David McCallam as Illya Kuryakin” >>>>> Still alive and kicking at age 88. He has recently had a continuing role on one of those CSI shows.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3228550/Charles-Bronson-stole-wife-man-U-N-C-L-E-returns-original-heartthrob-David-McCallum-speaks-filming-spy-classic-time-around.html
It might have sounded like standard crystal-ball flattery. But decades later, his mother would remind him of this encounter as he was mobbed by screaming female fans from Tallahassee to Tokyo, swamped under the biggest fan mail any actor has received in the history of MGM Studios.

The young British star was dubbed the ‘Blond Beatle’ in the Sixties, for his floppy fringe and boyish good looks but also his alarming effect on young women, who would mob department stores and climb through lavatory windows to get at him.

The Soviets would have loved to have got their hands on him, too, for his portrayal of a Russian agent working alongside the Americans at the height of the Cold War.

And all because he starred in a stylish, but silly, television spy series which became an international phenomenon.


59 posted on 04/11/2022 2:18:34 PM PDT by dennisw
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