David McCallum

This is actually a pretty good-looking period set gothic horror movie.

I don't know how they got David McCallum involved in this film.

Uh-huh.

He's too good for this.

Yeah.

yeah sapphire and steel was the big one for me before arthur c clark's mysterious world and and i looked it up the other day when we said about you know catching up and i was only eight when that came really and i was what and i remember the excitement in the household of my dad saying oh there's this new you know series coming out sapphire and steel and he was a big david mccallum fan and He was just like, yeah, we'll sit down and watch it and watch the first episode together.

So I would have only been eight years old when that came out.

And Sapphire and Steel was just a mind melt in terms of what they were trying to achieve with that and those characters.

And I think the same.

I used to watch the...

I used to love The Invisible Man with David McCallum.

I used to watch it with my granddad.

I share a birthday with that guy who was on The Man from UNCLE, Robert Vaughn.

David McCallum? No, the other guy.

I don't know.

I'd have to look and see who I share a birthday with.

And yes, Sean Connery in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. That's right.

And David McCallum from Ace of Wands is also in Helldrivers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I did not.

On CBS, the head coroner on there was an actor named David McCallum, and he was on the show for 20 years until he passed away in 2023.

Well, back in the 60s, he was on a show called The Man from UNCLE.

That was when they had all those spy shows, because that was cool back then.

Well,

when somebody was already hot, why not?

So David McCallum put out a song called The Edge.

Okay.

And you have elements which can poison that.

And a very good TV series, which I think was illustrating that, was a great series involving David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.

It was called, I've forgotten it, Sapphire and Steel.

that was a very good um i actually got a letter from the producer of that he was running that show that was very good uh science fiction tv involving two very esteemed actors uh and that was a lot of deep stuff in now one of them i find was how photographs can come alive and you can come and go through a photograph oh tell me more oh that's that's quite interesting and um I remember taking a bunch of photographs with the cell phone.

And then they have to solve mysteries, but it's awesome.

But she plays Sapphire, and David McCallum was Steel.

But here she plays Jessica- ...

Van Helsing, and she replaces the previous actress.

Almost like for the first time.

yeah literally no no it wasn't almost it was literally for the first time like i like in london the pollution like the the it's called um there's a word i forgot i've forgotten it's like magnum it's like the magnum there's a way to describe like the strength of a star's brightness basically and there was there was the levels of star that i i hadn't never seen before because it was like so clear you could see further away so it was wow so but but like again i don't even think about these i don't i'm not like oh my mom's friends were gay when i was a kid i just with david it was important to me to bring him on stage actually because he was it is he has i think one of the best voices that this country has ever had Yeah, that's him and McCallum and Butler.

That's his big song.

But he actually stepped away from that world because they were trying to force him to sing songs about women and he fancied men.

Right.

My mum told me, I never knew David McCallum was your godfather.

My mum was like, I didn't know David was Jordan's godfather.

I knew that did I.