Michael Callan

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 19571959 Callans 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 12hour day filming schedule with weekends off for the production of the halfhour 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 MD Griff McMillan Wife Barnaby Jones 12 OClock High Quincy ME Charlies 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 OffBroadway musical Bar Mitzvah Boy in 1987 Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Callan licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia