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Daniel Patrick Macnee (6 February 1922 – 25 June 2015) was a British-American actor, best known for his breakthrough role as secret agent John Steed in the television series The Avengers (1961–1969).
Patrick Macnee. Actor: The Avengers. British actor Patrick Macnee was born on February 6, 1922 in London, England into a wealthy and eccentric family. His father, Daniel Macnee, was a race horse trainer, who drank and gambled away the family fortune, leaving young Patrick to be raised by his lesbian mother, Dorothea Mary, and her partner.
Best known by the public for his starring role as Secret Agent John Steed on The Avengers (1961). Was expelled from Eton for bookmaking. He was born, the elder of two brothers, to a wealthy and extraordinarily eccentric English-Scottish family.
Jun 25, 2015 · Patrick Macnee, the British-born actor best known as dapper secret agent John Steed in the 1960s TV series The Avengers, died Thursday, his family confirmed.
Jun 26, 2015 · 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 spy show, died at home with...
Jun 26, 2015 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrick Macnee, the British-born actor best known as dapper secret agent John Steed in the long-running 1960s TV series "The Avengers," has died. He was 93. Macnee died Thursday of natural causes with his family at his bedside in Rancho Mirage, his son Rupert said in a statement.
The Avengers: Created by Sydney Newman. With Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson. A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.
