David McLean was an American film and television actor, best known for appearing in many Marlboro television and print advertisements beginning in the early 1960s.

X-15 is a 1961 American aviation drama film that presents a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket aircraft program, the test pilots who flew the aircraft, and the associated NASA community that supported the program. X-15 starred David McLean, Charles Bronson, James Gregory and Mary Tyler Moore. The film marked the feature film directorial debut of Richard Donner, and was narrated by James Stewart.