THIS WEEK AT our facebook fan page, we rememberd the wonderful actor Patrick Macnee who was born on this day in 1922. He was best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the
British television series The Avengers and The New Avengers.
PATRICK MACNEE and Peter Cushing had the opportunity to work together
several times. In 1968 Patrick was very much established in a superb tv
programme made in the UK called The Avengers...Peter worked with both
Patrick and Diana Rigg on this programme. Later in 1970, they worked together again, Macnee and Cushing both
'landed' in a film called 'Incense For The Damned' aka 'Bloodsuckers' It
received a limited release at the time, but seems to have found
something of a 'cult-status' in the land of '100 Horror Poor and Weird
Films' dvd compilations!! In 1978, the Avengers tv series was rebooted and relaunched and it's
first episode, not only brought us Macnee and Cushing ....but also two
new side -kicks for Macnee...Gareth Hunt as 'Tough man' Gambit and
Joanna Lumley as Purdey.....who not only supplied buckets of sex appeal
to the tea time Sunday evening program, but high kicks and a hair style
that anyone who considered themselves a bit of a catch, were proudly
modeling within days of the first program being broadcast! Lumley had
played Cushing grand-daughter Jessica Van Helsing in Hammer films 'The
Satanic Rites of Dracula' (1973)
MACNEE also shared a close friendship with Christopher Lee, since the pair
attended school together (at Summerfields Preparatory School in Oxford)
and also performed together several times, including playing Sherlock
Holmes and Doctor Watson in two TV movies in the early 1990s, Incident
at Victoria Falls and Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady. Patrick
Macnee died peacefully at his home, in Rancho Mirage, California on 25th
June 2015. He was 93.
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