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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy fiction television series [1] produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and first broadcast on NBC.The series follows secret agents Napoleon Solo, played by Robert Vaughn, and Illya Kuryakin, played by David McCallum, who work for a secret international counterespionage and law-enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and ...
David Keith McCallum (19 September 1933 – 25 September 2023) [1] was a Scottish actor and musician, based in the United States. [2] [3] He gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E (1964–1968).
[22] [23] [24] Elizabeth Debicki was cast in a femme fatale role on July 31, 2013; Rose Byrne and Charlize Theron were earlier considered for the same part. [25] On August 8, 2013, Hugh Grant joined the cast as Alexander Waverly, the head of United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E). [26]
Napoleon Solo is a fictional character from the 1960s TV spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The series format was notable for pairing the American Solo, played by Robert Vaughn, and the Russian Illya Kuryakin, played by David McCallum, as two spies who work together for an international espionage organisation at the height of the Cold War.
The James Bond-influenced "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," in which Vaughn's Solo and David McCallum's Illya Kuryakin battled the evil forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. around the globe (thanks to the glories of ...
Scottish actor played Illya Kuryakin alongside Robert Vaughn’s Napoleon Solo in the Sixties spy drama, ‘The Man From UNCLE’
Alexander Waverly is a fictional character from the 1960s television show The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,its spin-off series The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and the 2015 film version.. The original series was remarkable for pairing an American Napoleon Solo and a Russian Illya Kuryakin as two spies who work together for an international espionage organization at the height of the Cold War.
An off-broadway actress is murdered during a phone call to U.N.C.L.E., and Solo and Illya investigate a connection between the show and a sudden malfunction in U.N.C.L.E.'s communications. The understudy, Janet Jarrod (Shari Lewis), takes over the lead role, and Illya joins the cast to find the jamming device.