I’ve been away for a week but sceduled posts to fill in the gap.

Of course while I was away both David McCallum and Michael Gambon died.

McCallum famously sprang to fame as Illya Kuryakin the side-kick to Robert Vaughn’s Napoleon Solo in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. He soon gained equal billing due to his popularity. I also remember him from Colditz and the film Mosquito Squadron. I knew he was in Sapphire and Steel but that wasn’t a programme I ever watched. Similarly his appearance in NCIS passed me by.

David Keith McCallum: 19/9/1933 – 25/9/2023. So it goes.

Gambon was the Singing Detective and had multifarious TV and film roles before he became the second Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films but his true métier was the stage. His award list speaks for itself.

Michael John Gambon: 19/10/1940 – 27/9/2023. So it goes.