Patrick Macnee
Patrick Macnee
Daniel Patrick Macnee, known professionally as Patrick Macnee, was a British-American actor. He was best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the British television series The Avengers...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth6 February 1922
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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We were the first people in popular television to make the woman an equal partner with the man. You won't believe that, but I promise you it's true.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.
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I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.
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I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.
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And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.