
Michael Callan
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-11-22
Day of Death
2022-10-10 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Michael Callan
Biography
Michael Callan (November 22, 1935 – October 10, 2022) was an American actor.
Born Martin Harris Calinieff in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Callan began his career as Mickey Calin, and it was with this name he appeared on Broadway in The Boy Friend (1954), Catch a Star (1955), and West Side Story (1957-1959).
Callan's film career began in 1959 where he was contracted with Columbia Pictures and had roles in two films, They Came to Cordura and The Flying Fontaines. Although he was unable to reprise his West Side Story role of Riff in the film version due to his contract with Columbia, he did dance in the film Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961). His screen credits include The Interns, The New Interns, with Barbara Eden, Mysterious Island (1961), The Victors (1963), Cat Ballou, (1965) and later Leprechaun 3 and Stuck on You.
In 1966, Callan landed the lead role of Peter Christopher in the NBC sitcom Occasional Wife. At the time Callan was married to the former Carlyn Chapman. The young couple lived in Beverly Hills and had two daughters, Dawn Rachel (born ca. 1961) and Rebecca (born ca. 1964). He engaged in a 12-hour day filming schedule with weekends off for the production of the half-hour television series. Callan soon divorced Carlyn and was married for a time to Patricia Harty, the actress who played his "occasional wife" in the series.
Additional television credits include Breaking Point, That Girl, The Name of the Game, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ironside, Marcus Welby, M.D., Griff, McMillan & Wife, Barnaby Jones, 12 O'Clock High, Quincy M.E., Charlie's Angels, Simon and Simon, Fantasy Island, four episodes of Murder, She Wrote, and eight episodes of Love, American Style. He played Metallo in Superboy.
Callan appeared in the Off-Broadway musical Bar Mitzvah Boy in 1987.
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Acting
(2003)
Stuck on You
as Fox Prexy
(1997)
(1995)
Leprechaun 3
as Mitch
(1993)
Dark Dreams
as RAW / McCarthy
(1988)
Freeway
as Lt. Boyle
(1985)
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
as Hal Wallis
(1984)
Last of the Great Survivors
as Jerry Matson
(1983)
Chained Heat
as Martin
(1982)
Double Exposure
as Adrian Wilde
(1978)
The Cat and the Canary
as Paul Jones
(1978)
Record City
as Eddie
(1978)
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
as William Eddy
(1975)
Lepke
as Robert Kane
(1974)
The Photographer
as Adrian Wilde
(1973)
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
as Marvin Feldman
(1973)
A Gift of Terror
as Steve
(1972)
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
as Noah Forbes
(1969)
In Name Only
as Steve Braden
(1965)
Cat Ballou
as Clay Boone
(1965)
You Must Be Joking
as Lieutenant Tim Morton
(1964)
The New Interns
as Dr. Alec Considine
(1963)
The Victors
as Eldridge
(1962)
Bon Voyage!
as Nick O'Mara
(1962)
13 West Street
as Chuck Landry
(1962)
The Interns
as Dr. Alec Considine
(1961)
Mysterious Island
as Herbert Brown
(1961)
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
as Eddie Horner
(1960)
Because They're Young
as Griff Rimer
(1959)
They Came to Cordura
as Pvt. Andrew L. Hetherington
(1959)
The Flying Fontaines
as Rick Rias
Crew
(2007)
(1982)
Double Exposure
Producer