Patrick Macnee
Biography
Patrick Macnee was a British and American actor who became best known for playing the secret agent John Steed on the television series The Avengers, which ran from 1961 to 1969. After a wartime stint in the Royal Navy and early work in British television, he became the lead after Ian Hendry left following the first series, and he played opposite Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, and Linda Thorson. He returned to the part for The New Avengers from 1976 to 1977. His films included The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Les Girls (1957), The Howling (1981), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), and A View to a Kill (1985). He played Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on screen, as Watson in Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) and as Holmes in The Hound of London (1993), and supplied the voice of Invisible Jones in the 1998 film version of The Avengers.
93years old at death
- Born Paddington
- Died Rancho Mirage
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- Daniel Patrick Macnee (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 21
- Career span
- 48 years1955 to 2003
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A first
Macnee played Watson three times, opposite Roger Moore's Holmes in a 1976 television film and twice with Christopher Lee, then took the role of Holmes in two later television films. That makes him one of few actors to have played both parts on screen.
A change of course
Macnee stepped away from acting in the early 1960s, prior to his career-making part in The Avengers, and became one of the London-based producers of The Valiant Years, a documentary series drawn from Winston Churchill's Second World War memoirs.
Big break
Patrick Macnee was cast in The Avengers as the assistant to Ian Hendry's Dr. David Keel, but became the lead after Hendry left at the end of the first series.
Behind the camera
During the 1960s, Macnee worked with a co-author on two original novels tied to The Avengers. The books were titled Dead Duck and Deadline.
Beyond film
In 1990, Patrick Macnee and his Avengers co-star Honor Blackman reached the UK Top 10 with their 1964 song "Kinky Boots", which got new attention after BBC Radio One played it.
Patrick Macnee movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Christopher Lee's page
Roger Moore's page
David Carradine's page
Claude Akins's page
John Gregson's page
Box office
What Patrick Macnee's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$251 million
6 of the 21 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 21 films: 6 worldwide figure; 5 never in cinemas; 10 figure not found.
- 6Worldwide figure
- 5Never in cinemas
- 10Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The six biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$152M60.8% of the total
- 2$49M19.4% of the total
- 3$31M12.2% of the total
- 4$18M7.2% of the total
- 5$750K0.3% of the total
- 6$220K0.1% of the total
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Official profiles and reference pages.