Posts: 203
From: Menlo Park, CA
Registered: Sep 2007
posted June 25, 2015 09:02 PM
If anyone were to ask me which actor had the largest effect on my life, that answer would be Patrick Macnee
Words cant adequately describe how much I admire his Style and Class .. ever since I first saw him on television playing John Steed in glorious B/W at the ripe old age of 4 years old ... and yes Emma was the first woman to steal my heart
Patrick Macnee, Robert Culp, Jimmy Doohan - I miss them all and they all made my life a MUCH better place
( and yes you can thank Scotty for all of my mechanical inclination, and therefore Film-O-Clean would not exist had he not )
Ross Gibbs
Junior Posts: 26
From: Blue Mountains, Australia
Registered: Mar 2012
posted June 26, 2015 01:42 AM
RIP Steed.
-------------------- “He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.” ― Philip K. Dick, Ubik
I have all 3 of the 3x400ft that Derann released of the Avengers episodes - I will screen them over the weekend as a tribute - he always came across as a true gentleman.
Posts: 1411
From: Enfield, U.K.
Registered: Aug 2003
posted June 26, 2015 04:37 AM
I think he had one of the most distinctive voices on British television, as well as being a very underrated actor, another stalwart of British TV sadly gone, but not forgotten.
Posts: 540
From: Aldershot, Hampshire, UK
Registered: Nov 2013
posted June 30, 2015 03:40 AM
Sad to miss this news until today. Always an enjoyable actor and a great one on occasion. He held the New Avengers together even when the scripts increasingly let him down. We salute you Patrick.
posted July 01, 2015 03:44 PM
I was fortunately enough to see him some time ago as i found some 35mm outtakes (film rushes) that have not been seen in 44 years.
I think this is included on one of the recently released DVDs of the Avengers with Emma Peel. Some funny moments too.