{"id":1985134,"date":"2025-08-28T18:23:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1985134"},"modified":"2025-08-28T18:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:23:56","slug":"adam-campbell-to-play-young-ducky-on-ncis-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/adam-campbell-to-play-young-ducky-on-ncis-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Campbell to play young Ducky on &#8216;NCIS: Origins&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span class=\"story_dl\">Aug. 28 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Season 2 of<i> NCIS: Origins<\/i> will honor late franchise favorite David McCallum by having Adam Campbell play the younger version of McCallum&#8217;s beloved character Ducky this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We wanted to do this episode to honor the memory of our dear friend David McCallum,&#8221; co-showrunners and executive producers Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He was a beloved member of the <i>NCIS<\/i> family for so many years and we&#8217;re incredibly lucky to have the talented Adam Campbell back to bring the younger version of this iconic character to life once again. We even got to feature David&#8217;s music in the episode. We&#8217;re all very excited and can&#8217;t wait for the fans to see it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McCallum played NCIS chief medical examiner Dr. Donald &#8220;Ducky&#8221; Mallard on the original<i> NCIS<\/i> series for 20 years until his death in 2023 at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Campbell previously played Ducky in flashbacks throughout the main series on CBS.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Adam Campbell will be seen playing young Ducky in Season 2 of &#8220;NCIS: Origins.&#8221; Photo courtesy of CBS<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>Origins<\/i> is set in the early 1990s and follows a younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Shotwell), the character Mark Harmon played on <i>NCIS <\/i>and<i> NCIS: New Orleans <\/i>for 18 seasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 28 (UPI) &#8212; Season 2 of NCIS: Origins will honor late franchise favorite David McCallum by having Adam Campbell play the younger version of McCallum&#8217;s beloved character Ducky this fall. &#8220;We wanted to do this episode to honor the memory of our dear friend David McCallum,&#8221; co-showrunners and executive producers Gina Lucita Monreal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1985135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[357136,357139,357137,315761],"class_list":["post-1985134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-adam-campbell","tag-david-j-north","tag-david-mccallum","tag-ncis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Adam-Campbell-to-play-young-Ducky-on-NCIS-Origins.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}