Northern James Calloway (September 10, 1948 – January 9, 1990)[1] was an American actor and singer, best known for playing David on Sesame Street from 1971 to 1989.

Calloway graduated from New York City's High School of Performing Arts and joined the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in 1966.

After being asked to leave the house and refusing to do so, Calloway beat Stagaman with an iron, causing serious head and rib injuries.

He then jumped up and washed his hands and face in the Wrights' birdbath before fleeing the scene, where witnesses reported him wearing only a Superman T-shirt.

Davis also states Calloway once appeared unannounced at Alison Bartlett's ("Gina" on Sesame) high school and proposed to her, despite him being 23 years her senior.

Eventually, in the spring of 1989, Calloway was dismissed from Sesame Street by Singer, following the afore­mentioned incident with music coordinator Danny Epstein.

Shortly after his termination from Sesame Street, Calloway was permanently placed into a mental institution called Stony Lodge Hospital, located in Ossining, New York.

A coroner's report listed Calloway's official cause of death as exhaustive psychosis, now more commonly called excited delirium syndrome (EDS),[13] a "controversial condition"[14] often retrospectively assigned to those who die under restraint in custody.