David McCallum

**David Keith McCallum** (19 Satumba 1933 - 25 Satumba 2023)  ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne kuma mawaƙi na Scotland. Bayan ya sami matsayi daban-daban na fina-finai a cikin asalinsa Burtaniya, ya sami karbuwa sosai a cikin shekarun 1960 don yin wasa da wakilin sirri Illya Kuryakin a cikin jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin na Amurka The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68), rawar da ta ba shi gabatarwa ga biyu na Primetime Emmy Awards da Golden Globe Award.

Sauran shahararrun ayyukansa na talabijin sun hada da Simon Carter a Colditz (1972-74) da Steel a Sapphire & Steel (1979-82). Da farko a shekara ta 2003, McCallum ya sami sabuntawa a duniya saboda rawar da ya taka a matsayin babban likitan likitan NCIS Dokta Donald "Ducky" Mallard  a cikin jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin na CBS NCIS, wanda ya buga na tsawon shekaru 20 har zuwa mutuwarsa a 2023. A cikin rawar fim, McCallum musamman ya bayyana a cikin The Great Escape (1963), kuma a matsayin Yahuza Iskariyoti a cikin The Mafi Girma Labari da aka Told (1965). Wani mawaƙi mai horar da gargajiya kuma mai kida da yawa, McCallum ya kuma rubuta kundin kiɗa na kiɗa da yawa.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi David Keith McCallum a ranar 19 ga Satumba 1933 a Glasgow  na biyu daga cikin 'ya'ya maza biyu na mai kunna violin David Fotheringham McCallum da Dorothy McCallum (née Dorman), mai kunna violins.  Lokacin da yake dan shekara uku, iyalinsa suka koma Landan don mahaifinsa ya yi wasa a matsayin shugaban London Philharmonic Orchestra . A farkon Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, an kwashe shi zuwa Scotland, inda ya zauna tare da mahaifiyarsa a Gartocharn kusa da Loch Lomond . 

McCallum ya sami tallafin karatu a Makarantar Kwalejin Jami'ar, makarantar yara maza mai zaman kanta a Hampstead, London, inda, iyayensa suka karfafa shi ya shirya don aiki a cikin kiɗa, ya buga oboe. A shekara ta 1946, yana da shekaru 13, ya fara yin muryoyin yara don kamfanin rediyo na BBC.  Har ila yau, ya shiga cikin wasan kwaikwayo na gida, yana da shekaru 17, ya bayyana a matsayin Oberon a cikin samar da iska na A Midsummer Night's Dream tare da Play da Pageant Union . Ya bar makaranta yana da shekaru 18 kuma An kwashe su don aikin kasa. Ya shiga rundunar Sojojin Burtaniya ta 3rd Battalion da Middlesex Regiment, wanda aka tura shi zuwa Royal West African Frontier Force .  A watan Maris na shekara ta 1954, an kara shi zuwa mataimakin. Bayan ya bar sojoji ya halarci Royal Academy of Dramatic Art a London, inda Joan Collins ta kasance abokiyar aji.

## Ayyukan wasan kwaikwayo

### Matsayi na farko
A shekara ta 1951, McCallum ya zama mataimakin manajan mataki na Kamfanin Glyndebourne Opera. Ya fara aikinsa na wasan kwaikwayo yana yin muryoyin yara don Rediyon BBC a 1947 kuma yana ɗaukar ƙananan sassa a fina-finai na Burtaniya daga ƙarshen shekarun 1950. Matsayinsa na farko ya kasance a cikin Whom the Gods Love, Die Young yana wasa da sarauta. Hoton da ke dauke da taken James Dean na McCallum ya ja hankalin kungiyar Rank, wanda ya sanya hannu a kansa a shekarar 1956.  Koyaya, a cikin wata hira da Alan Titchmarsh da aka watsa a ranar 3 ga Nuwamba 2010, McCallum ya bayyana cewa ya riƙe katin Equity tun daga shekara ta 1946.

Matsayinsa na farko sun haɗa da ɗan fashi a cikin Robbery Under Arms (1957) (inda ya sadu da matarsa ta gaba Jill Ireland ), ƙaramin mai ba da rediyo na RMS Titanic Harold Bride a cikin A Night to Remember (1958), da kuma ɗan fashi mai laifi a cikin Violent Playground (1958). Fim dinsa na farko na Amurka shi ne Freud: The Secret Passion (1962),  wanda John Huston ya jagoranta, wanda ba da daɗewa ba ya biyo bayan rawar da ya taka a cikin *Billy Budd* na Peter Ustinov . McCallum ya buga Lt. Cmdr. Eric Ashley-Pitt a cikin The Great Escape, wanda aka saki a 1963. Ya ɗauki matsayin Yahuza Iskariyoti a cikin Labarin Mafi Girma da aka taɓa Tunawa na 1965. Sauran rawar da ya taka a talabijin sun hada da bayyanar sau biyu a kan The Outer Limits a cikin abubuwan da suka faru "The Sixth Finger" (1963) da "The Forms of Things Unknown" (1964), da kuma bayyanar baƙo a kan *Perry Mason* a 1964 a matsayin wanda ake tuhuma Phillipe Bertain a cikin "The Case of the Fifty Millionth Frenchman".

## Manazarta