David McCallum played the character Illya Kuryakin in which TV series?
Illya Kuryakin Illya Kuryakin Illya Nickovitch Kuryakin is a fictional character from the 1960s TV spy series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." The series was remarkable for pairing an American, Napoleon Solo, and the Russian Kuryakin as two spies who work together for an international espionage organisation at the height of the Cold War. Kuryakin was played by Scottish actor David McCallum. Although originally conceived as a minor character, Kuryakin became an indispensable part of the show, achieving co-star status with the show's lead, Napoleon Solo. McCallum's blond good looks and the enigmatic persona he created for the character garnered him a huge
Illya Kuryakin character. The approach he hit upon was to build a persona based on ambiguity and enigma, hiding, rather than revealing, aspects of the character's background and personality. McCallum summed up the character in commenting "No one knows what Illya Kuryakin does when he goes home at night." Kuryakin is consistently referred to as a "Russian"; however, he appears to have spent at least some of his childhood in Kiev, Ukraine ("The Foxes and Hounds Affair"). He is Number Two in Section Two (Operations and Enforcement) at U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in New York City. He seems to be a Soviet citizen of