Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Since David McCallum's father, David McCallum Sr., was first violinist for the London Philharmonic Orchestra and his mother, Dorothy Dorman, was a cellist, it's not surprising that David was originally headed for a career in music, playing oboe. He studied briefly at the Royal Academy of Music. He left that, however, for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and joined Actor's Equity in 1946, his first acting work being for BBC Radio. He made nearly a dozen movies in the United Kingdom before his critically acclaimed work as Lt. Wyatt in Billy Budd (1962).

To the older generation, he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of U.N.C.L.E. agent Illya Kuryakin in the hit TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). To younger audience, he is best known for his superlative portrayal of Dr. Donald "Duckie" Mallard on NCIS (2003).

McCallum was first married to actress Jill Ireland, whom he met while filming Hell Drivers (1957). In 1962 he introduced Ireland to Charles Bronson when both were filming The Great Escape (1963). She eventually left McCallum and married Bronson in 1968. McCallum and Ireland had three sons: Paul, Jason (an adopted son who died from an accidental drug overdose in 1989), and Val (short for Valentine).

He met fashion model Katherine Carpenter during a photo shoot for Glamour in 1965 and married her two years later. The couple had a son, Peter, and a daughter, Sophie. They were together for 58 years and were active with charitable organizations that support the The United States Marine Corps: Katherine's father was a Marine who served in the Battle of Iwo Jima, and her brother lost his life in the Vietnam War. McCallum had eight grandchildren.

David McCallum died on September 25 2023 in New York City from natural causes at the age of 90.

I feel it&#39;s a person&#39;s duty to participate in the governing of the
country in which he lives.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don&#39;t go to a place to see
what&#39;s there, but who is there.

I didn&#39;t want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have
a nice life and enjoy acting.

[on dealing with fame in the &#39;60s]: I lost all degree of privacy. I couldn&#39;t go anywhere. The minute I walked out, people recognized me. There&#39;s a whole new way of going through life when everybody knows who you are.

<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0416228/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Sidney James</a> was a great actor and a funny man.

[on working with Robert Vaughn on &#39;The Man from U.N.C.L.E.&#39;] Robert was an academic. Most of the time we were working, he was reading books. He was writing things down. He was somewhere else slightly, and he was very open to my suggesting things when we were on set. A couple of times he said, &#39;You&#39;re upstaging me.&#39; I said, &#39;Yes, I&#39;m doing it on purpose. I&#39;m sorry you noticed.&#39; But we had a very good working relationship. We were as different as chalk and cheese in our lifestyles, and we went out to dinner, I think, once. We didn&#39;t socialize at all.

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