Showing posts with label The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AGENT 99!



Barbara Feldon (born Barbara Anne Hall; March 12, 1933) is an American actress primarily known for her roles on television. Her most prominent role was that of Agent 99 in the 1965–1970 sitcom Get Smart.










Would you believe Barbara Feldon is 91 years young today, March 12, 2024?  I confess I had a big crush on her from the very first time I saw her on TV, which was not in her debut as 99 on the GET SMART show but rather as Mandy Stevenson on another spy series: THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

IMDb and WIKIPEDIA can offer you her entire biography and career filmography so I won't dwell into that. All I can say is that Barbara Feldon had the most beautiful and tantalizing eyes I had ever seen and she stole my heart from the very moment I saw her on my TV set. Today, I am thankfully glad she's still with us, although the chance of meeting her in person is extremely remote since she lives in New York and from what I've read, she's a very private and laid back person nowadays. Anyway, I am happy to visit her via my DVD collection...and loving it!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BARBARA FELDON AND LONG LIVE AGENT 99!

Monday, September 25, 2023

RIP ILLYA KURYAKIN


                                      SAD NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT - 
David McCallum, who starred as Illya Kuryakin alongside Robert Vaughn’s Napoleon Solo in the 1960s hit spy drama “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” and had a supporting role as pathologist Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard on the top-rated series “NCIS” decades later, died Monday of natural causes in New York City. He was 90.


                                                  As Ashley-Pitt in THE GREAT ESCAPE


                                                                       Ducky Mallard in NCIS



As Illya Kuryakin with Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo in
                                                         THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.


He was in THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD as Judas Iscariot, THE GREAT ESCAPE, SOL MADRID, AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA, TV's The Invisible Man, Sapphire & Steel TV series, NCIS as Ducky Mallard and many other distinguished roles, but he will always be Illya Kuryakin to me!  - RIP David McCallum -


                          Listen to Hugo Montenegro's recording of the song ILLYA, from the
                                 1965 LP Original Music From The Man From U.N.C.L.E.