David McCallum

David McCallum portrayed the ultra-cool spy Illya Kuryakin, on the TV show Man from U.N.C.L.E . During the early to mid 1960s, McCallum was considered a teenybopper sex symbol. He had a mop of blond hair and talked with a Russian accent, during a Cold War period with Russia. To adolescent pre-teenybopper girls, he was mysterious and sexy.  Posted below is a comic book ad for the Illya Kuryakin ( Man from UNCLE ) LIFE-SIZE PIN-UP poster. The advertisement "claims" that the poster is...Read Full Story

The legendary Bob Newhart took on an unexpected role on Tuesday's "NCIS" as Dr. Walter Magnus, who preceded David McCallum's character, Ducky, as Chief Medical Examiner for the service. 81-year-old Newhart, who we've become accustomed to seeing in comedic parts, was seen in a different light as Magnus, an aging doctor who revisits his old workplace to try to jog his rapidly failing memory. Newhart, who says that Mark Harmon helped him to set the more poignant tone for the episode, first took...Read Full Story

Bob Newhart, David McCallum unite on ‘NCIS’: What did you think? – Zap2it.com (blog) By Carina Adly MacKenzie      January 18, 2011 11:27 PM ET The legendary Bob Newhart took on an unexpected role on Tuesday’s “NCIS” as Dr. Walter Magnus, who preceded David McCallum ‘s character, Ducky, as Chief Medical Examiner for the service. 81-year-old Newhart, who we’ve become accustomed to seeing in comedic parts, was seen in a different light as Magnus, an aging doctor who...Read Full Story

Bob Newhart, David Mccallum Ncis Cast: The legendary Bob Newhart took an unexpected role on Tuesday of "NCIS" as Dr. Walter Magnus, which preceded the character of David McCallum, Ducky, as Chief Medical Examiner for the service. Newhart was 81 years old, we are accustomed to seeing in some parts of comedy, was seen in a different light as Magnus, an aging doctor who returns to his former place of work to try to quickly refresh your memory failing . Bob Newhart, Ncis Cast Newhart, who says...Read Full Story

Shooting a scene in the autopsy lab on the NCIS set, Bob Newhart looks a bit absentminded, and an interloper might not know whether to chuckle. The TV legend is playing Dr. Walter Magnus, who preceded Ducky (David McCallum) as the unit's medical examiner. Looking over a corpse with Gibbs (Mark Harmon), Ducky suggests their old colleague add his forensic two cents. "Walter, why don't you jump into some scrubs? ...Walter?" Newhart's hesitancy in responding isn't far off from the trademark...Read Full Story