Career
Acting career Nicknamed "Sonny, McCalman helped form the Front Street Theatre in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. During the Korean War, he served in the United States. Army. Over the course of his acting career McCalman appeared in various film and television guest roles, usually in supporting parts, both dramatic and comedic often as heavies and authoritarian figures.
He got his acting start on Broadway appearing in productions of Lincoln (1971), An Enemy for the People (1971), and a comedy, The Playboy Of the Western World.
= Hollywood film and television roles His first Hollywood film role was in Deliverance (1972). He had supporting parts in Airport "79 (1979), The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), and Falling Down (1993).
He also appeared in the Roger Donaldson directed film Marie (1985). He appeared in guest roles in television shows such as Cheers, Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, Lou Grant, Three"s Company, Murder She Wrote as well as such miniseries and television movies as Roots (1977) and Captains and the Kings (1976).
Death McCalman retired from acting and returned to Memphis in 1997 after suffering a heart attack.
He died in a Memphis hospital in 2005, one month shy of his 73rd birthday, from complications of a series of strokes. = Films Mr. B Ben Doctor Doctor Sam = Television work Saint Gloria Remington Steele Starsky and Hutch.