Mourning Patrick Macnee “a true gentleman” – STERN

When psychedelic hit series “The Avengers, Avengers” (1961-1969) he was allowed one after flirting with two women who were shortly afterwards to Bond girl Honor Blackman (“Goldfinger”) and Diana Rigg (“Secret Service Her Majesty “) started fighting with Macnee by the agents series. It was the role of his life. The Scot has since been the epitome of British coolness.

Now fans mourn the cult performer worldwide. The man who so often dodging deadly missiles in the TV died, with 93 years peacefully in a bed in California.

Roger Moore mourns publicly

Macnee was “a true gentleman” Roger Moore recalls on Twitter to his longtime friend. “We were friends since the ’50s.”

Macnee and Moore (“The Saint”) belong to Tony Curtis (“The Two”) and Peter Wyngarde (“Department S”) to the big 60s TV heroes. Macnee, who also wrote novels and played on Broadway is likely to have been one of the most versatile of his generation. Ironically, remained barely remembered

Stylish Bee drone from the upper class

“I’ve even tried to work but that was nothing -.. Too much work”. The cheerful coquetry with Macnee such sentences in “The Avengers, Avengers” (original title: “The Avengers”) sprinkled, was beside Diana Riggs sex appeal and excellent scriptwriting one of the good reasons why the series to date a classic is. Macnee was especially in combination with a sympathetic Rigg Pasha (“When we ate, skim please the police reports on this murder. I’m interested in some facts.”). He was a stylish Bee drone from the upper class and was always there when it was necessary to defuse a bomb or to free the tethered on railway tracks partner

Macnees colorful resume fit perfectly to:. On 6 February. 1922 born, he experienced as a young child his parents’ divorce. His father, a racing horse trainer, was a dandy. The mother of the family of Huntington’s, descendants of Robin Hood, was living with a woman. The lesbian couple moved the little Patrick large. Initially wanted his stepmother raise him as a girl and just “uncle Evelyn” are called. Macnee visited the posh Eton College – and promptly flew out when he outed himself as “a leading bookmaker and pornographer” on campus.

When he was sick in bed, the ship his troops was sunk, almost all died “England has an icon lost”

After: During World War II a bronchitis saved his life. many theater and TV appearances in the United States he had around 1960 before actually becoming a producer, but ended up with “The Avengers, Avengers” and rose to become the main actor. Last Linda Thorson was his series partner. After a television revival of the format in the 70s, Macnee was more often seen in TV and cinema, but rather in supporting roles, such as in “Battlestar Galactica”, where he played the Cylon ruler Count Iblis. Also in “The Sea Wolves” and “James Bond 007 – In the face of death.” He stepped on

“England has lost an icon and a role model,” mourns the television critic Oliver lime kiln. “. No one wore the melon with more style and coolness as John Steed He was, is and always will be. The perfect British gentleman – charming, ironic, warm and cool until the screen tip” For Kalkofe John Steed was “the most important and most inspiring hero of my childhood.”