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Hello! This is my fist post EVER!
I have my own site and stuff, but it is a bit unloved of late – my own fault.
I’m taking this first post as an opportunity to blow my own trumpet. Here is the frist panel of one of two strips that I completed last month and will be published in the anthology Underground Overkill, and may also get an airing on online comic sites (I’m still not sure about this bit!).
Hope you like it.
More to follow.
With a career spanning a little over 50 years, David McCallum is a face most of us, young and old, recognize. From eccentric coroner Ducky on ‘NCIS’; elemental time-fighter Steel on ‘Sapphire and Steel’; Ilya Kuryakin fighting the sinister group T.H.R.U.S.H in ‘The Man from UNCLE’, and countless other incarnations – he has entertained and enthralled generations, but how many know of his other talents as a musician, composer, and photographer? Hopefully this interview David kindly let us conduct will help shed some light on those unknown depths of his deep artistic skill.
Can I ask what made you change your direction from music to acting?
I was very young and involved in local theatre. In the local school hall, an amateur theatre company produced an evening of recitations, singers and soloists. These were intermingled with one or two scenes from plays. I played the part of the doomed prince in the dungeon in Shakespeare’s ‘King John’. I pleaded – unsuccessfully – with the assassin not to kill me. It is a real tear-jerker and audience applauded loudly at the end. It was in that moment I realized once and for all that my home in this world was on a stage. My efforts didn’t require homework or lengthy musical practice. The oboe took second place from that moment on. I did what was necessary in school and sought work at the earliest opportunity. ‘Whom the Gods Love, Die Young’ was the first part – oddly enough playing another doomed royal. It was on BBC Radio in 1946, the year I joined Equity.
How did your parents take your decision to concentrate your energies on theatre?
Their philosophy was simple. My mother and father gave my brother and I a secure environment that allowed us to go out and achieve our maximum potential. They never interfered, only encouraged. We both made our own decisions and lived by the consequences. I knew my father felt that music would give me a better standard of living than the vicissitudes of the theatre but he didn’t say it openly. When he came to the premier of ‘Robbery Under Arms’ at the Odeon Leicester Square several years later, my name was in large letters on the side of the building. By then I think he realized that I had probably made the right choice.
Even though you moved fully into acting, did music still play a part in your life? Did you still play the oboe in your spare time?
I still have my oboe. When doing ‘The Man from UNCLE’, I conducted several albums at Capitol. Top forty arranged by HB Barnum for woodwind and four French horns. Later, in ‘Motherlove’ on television I played an orchestral conductor and had the pleasure of conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mozart and Prokofiev.
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Chet Zar, dark artist, sculptor, and movie make-up effect artist extrordinaire (well he does design for Guillermo Del Toro), has just updated his website to include lots more goodies for everyone to look at.
Chet in his studio. Image © Kevin Knight
He says “Aside from the cool new design, there is a film section (to see some samples of my film work) and a new web store. Check it out at www.chetzar.com“. You can also keep up-to-date on what he’s up to by following him on Twitter – @chetzar.
“Fiend” - Oil on Canvas - 30X40\
Some of my favourite images are from his movie work, especially Liam Neeson’s make-up from ‘Darkman’, and more tenderly, a prosthetic baby for TV show ‘ER’. Absolutely stunning.
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