From a New York Times obit by Leslie Kaufman headlined “David McCallum. Heartthrob Spy of ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ Dies at 90”:
David McCallum, the Scottish-born actor who became a surprise sensation as the enigmatic Russian spy Illya Kuryakin on “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” in the 1960s and found television stardom again almost 40 years later on the hit series “N.C.I.S.,” died in New York.