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Patrick Macnee

Patrick Macnee
Patrick Macnee
Born: Feb 06, 1922 in London, England, UK
Occupation: Actor
Active: '60s-'90s
Major Genres: Spy Film
Career Highlights: The Howling, Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady, Sherlock Holmes in New York
First Major Screen Credit: The Fatal Night (1948)
20 Videos for Patrick Macnee
Coming Home (1998) Waxwork (1988) Battlestar Galactica (1979)
Coming Home (1998) A View to a Kill (1985) Les Girls (1957)
Coming Home (1998) This Is Spinal Tap (1984) A Christmas Carol (1951)
The Avengers (1998) This Is Spinal Tap (1984) A Christmas Carol (1951)
Sherlock Holmes and the Incident at Victoria Falls (1991) For the Term of His Natural Life (1983) The New Avengers: Season 01 ()
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) Rehearsal for Murder (1982) The New Avengers: Season 02 ()
The Masque of the Red Death (1989) The Howling (1981)
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Biography:

British actor Patrick Macnee barely had time to earn his Eton school tie when he began training for his career on a scholarship to the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art. While serving with the Royal Navy during World War II, Macnee made his first film appearance with a small role in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (43).

He continued essaying such featured roles as Young Marley in the 1951 Christmas Carol before coming to Broadway with the Old Vic troupe in 1954. He decided to stay in Hollywood a while, appearing in several TV shows and such films as Les Girls (57). He would later describe most of his roles during this period as villainy in a tri-corner hat.

In 1960, Macnee traded his period duds for a bowler and three-piece suit when he began his long run as sophisticated secret agent John Steed on the British TV series The Avengers (incidentally, the murder that Macnee was avenging in the early episodes was that of a woman played by his then-wife Kate Woodville).

He remained the one permanent fixture on The Avengers until its demise in 1968, appearing opposite three different jumpsuit-clad leading ladies: Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson. Macnee also showed up as a supervisor of sort in the 1977 retro series The New Avengers, leaving the karate and gunplay to Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt.

In America, Patrick Macnee appeared regularly on the TV series Gavilan (82), Empire (84), and Lightning Force (91). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.