![]() ![]() But there's that old phrase: 'You buy your ticket and you take your chances'. I know I haven't got certain parts because people have said, 'Don't be silly, we don't want him, he's Ilya Kuryakin'. "International recognition is negative as well as positive. He does admit, however, that being so strongly identified with one part has restricted his subsequent choice of roles. On my gravestone, it will say: 'Here lies David McCallum, also known as Ilya Kuryakin, or vice "I always grin when it happens," the actor tells me. Never a day goes by without him being stopped in the street by someone calling him Ilya Kuryakin, the Russian agent he played in the classically camp 1960s spy series. ![]() Some 30 years after it was made, David McCallum still cannot escape the clutches of The Man From UNCLE. HEADLINE: A relative handicap SMALL SCREEN ![]()
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