{"id":786,"date":"2024-12-04T16:37:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:37:12","slug":"pauley-perrette-wilmer-valderrama-remember-david-mccallum-what-a-legend-what-a-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Pauley Perrette, Wilmer Valderrama Remember David McCallum: \u201cWhat A Legend. What A Journey\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pauley Perrette and Wilmer Valderrama have paid tribute to their \u201cNCIS\u201d co-star David McCallum, who passed away on September 25 at the age of 90 in New York.<\/p>\n<p>McCallum, the last remaining original cast member of CBS\u2019 \u201cNCIS,\u201d portrayed Chief Medical Examiner Donald \u201cDucky\u201d Mallard for two decades. Known for his eccentric yet highly efficient investigative skills and his knack for psychological profiling, McCallum\u2019s character became a beloved fixture on the show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-787\" src=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/a2771c8966db1856595f478326a5433f-300x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/a2771c8966db1856595f478326a5433f-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/a2771c8966db1856595f478326a5433f.webp 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pauley Perrette and Wilmer Valderrama have paid tribute to their \u201cNCIS\u201d co-star David McCallum, who passed away on September 25 at the age of 90 in New&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}