Patrick Macnee is dead – SPIEGEL ONLINE

His most famous role made him the epitome of the British gentleman of the old school. From 1961 to 1969. Patrick Macnee embodied in the series “The Avengers, Avengers” (in the English original “The Avengers”) the agent John Steed.

Now Macnee has died in his adopted home in Rancho Mirage, California, surrounded by his family. The actor was 93 years old.

Even with eleven years was a native of London, together with Christopher Lee on stage. During World War II Macnee fought in the British military after the war he played in smaller film productions before he succeeded in the sixties the breakthrough.

Macnee had more roles on television and in movies, such as “Battlestar Galactica”, “Sherlock Holmes in New York” and “James Bond 007 – In the face of death.” He appeared in 1998 alongside Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in the movie version of “The Avengers, Avengers” with.