Patrick Macnee
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London, England, UK
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 (1943). 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 (1957). 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 (1982), Empire (1984), and Lightning Force (1991). Macnee continued working through the 2000s, including a voice appearance in the 1998 Avengers movie. Patrick Macnee passed away in 2015, at age 93.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Winter's Tale |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Angels and Demons Revealed |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Unlocking Da Vinci's Code |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Men of Valor |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Unlocking Da Vinci's Code |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Men of Valor |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Galacticon |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Spacebabes Meet the Monsters |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Nancherrow |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Hollywood Spies on Spies |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Exploring the Supernatural |
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— | 1998 |
5% | The Avengers |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Thunder in Paradise II |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Sherlock Holmes And The Leading Lady |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Waxwork II: Lost in Time |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Chill Factor |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Super Force |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Around the World in 80 Days |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Lobster Man from Mars |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Sorry, Wrong Number |
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— | 1989 |
67% | The Masque of the Red Death |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Search for Haunted Hollywood |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Dick Francis Mysteries |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | The Return of Sam McCloud |
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— | 1988 |
56% | Waxwork |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Transformations |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Shadey |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Club Med |
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— | 1986 |
37% | A View to a Kill |
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— | 1985 |
95% | This Is Spinal Tap |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Down Under |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Sweet Sixteen |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | The Creature Wasn't Nice |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
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— | 1983 |
27% | Young Doctors in Love |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Rehearsal for Murder |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | The Sea Wolves |
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— | 1981 |
70% | The Howling |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Hot Touch |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Spaceship |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Naked Space |
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— | 1981 |
35% | Battlestar Galactica |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Dead of Night |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Sherlock Holmes in New York |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | King Solomon's Treasure |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Mister Jerico |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Incense for the Damned (Bloodsuckers)(Doctors Wear Scarlet)(Freedom Seekers) |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Veil |
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— | 1958 |
67% | Until They Sail |
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— | 1957 |
100% | Les Girls |
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— | 1957 |
82% | The Battle of the River Plate (Pursuit of the Graf Spee) |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Three Cases of Murder |
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— | 1955 |
85% | A Christmas Carol |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Elusive Pimpernel |
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— | 1950 |
95% | Hamlet |
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— | 1948 |
97% | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
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— | 1943 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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No Score Yet |
Coach
1989-1997
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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No Score Yet |
House Calls
1979-1982
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33% |
Battlestar Galactica
1978-1980
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No Score Yet |
Columbo
1968-2003
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No Score Yet |
Night Gallery
1970-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Avengers (1961)
1969
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No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
Super Force
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No Score Yet |
The Avengers [DELETED]
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Quotes from Patrick Macnee's Characters
Tibbett: | (watching from a distance as we see Stacey for the first time in the film) Another wealthy owner? |
Tibbett: | Another wealthy owner? |
James Bond: | Who knows? But she certainly bear closer inspection. |
Tibbett: | We're on a mission! |
James Bond: | Sir Godfrey, on a mission I am expected to sacrifice myself. |
Dr. George Waggner: | Repression. Repression is the father of neurosis, of self-hatred. Now, stress results when we fight against our impulses. We've all heard people talk about animal magnetism, the natural man. The noble savage, as if we'd lost something valuable in our long evolution into civilized human beings. Now there's a good reason for this. |
Dr. George Waggner: | We should never try to deny the beast - the animal within us. |
Dr. George Waggner: | (after being shot) - Thank God! [he drops dead] |