#TOOCOOLTUESDAY!
I would guess maybe 98% of you here would be able to name the face
under that all the make up, sitting in the make up chair. For those who
can't there is one big give away, for all of us who have been been part
of a running joke here for months...can you spot it??
TODAY WE REMEMBER 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.
The NAME of the COMPANY. WHY was he asked to make it? It was a MODEL of WHAT? ANSWER THURSDAY!
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