Thursday, June 25, 2015

Patrick Macnee, R. I. P.

BBC News: Actor Patrick Macnee, star of The Avengers TV series, has died in California at the age of 93. The Briton, best known for playing John Steed in the 1960s television series, died at home with his family at his bedside, his son Rupert said.

7 comments:

Matthew said...

Terrible shame. I only recently got to see the Avengers when they put the episodes on Hulu.

Matthew said...

Terrible shame. I only recently got to see the Avengers when they put the episodes on Hulu.

Kevin R. Tipple said...

Man.....love that series. Sad news.

Deb said...

And let's never forget his performance as Sir Dennis Eaton-Hogg, Polymer Records President, in "This Is Spinal Tap".

Jeff Meyerson said...

He played the young Jacob Marley opposite George Cole (still alive at 90) as young Scrooge in the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol (aka Scrooge), starring Alastair Sim.

But he'll always be John Steed to me.

RIP


Jeff

lastromantic49 said...

One of the good ones. Sigh. It was such a lark to see him turn up as Bond's valet in one of the Roger Moore Bond films. Forget which. RIP!

George Kelleyw said...

I want to drop everything and watch an old AVENGERS episode with Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg.