Farewell John Steed - Patrick Macnee Dies

[Stephen_G]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33279566

According to his Son. R.I.P.

[Gromit]

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[Gromit]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HifOGIOlZNE

[Buenchico]

Patrick Macnee & Honor Blackman ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-e_T4WRcs

[Ann]

We were only watching an episode last month on holiday abroad on a foreign tv channel we chanced upon. It brought back happy memories of early days in our marriage, when we watched The Avengers every week. We preferred Mrs Peel (Diana Rigg) to any of the other actresses.

[tonyav]

RIP Patrick Mcnee.
Used to love that old Bentley he had in the Avengers.

[Buenchico]

>>>We were only watching an episode last month on holiday

You mean that you've missed all of the episodes shown on True Entertainment? (Channel 61 on Freeview). It's on every weekday evening at 8pm!

[Buenchico]

Which one? There were six of them!
http://www.johnsteedsflat.com/The_Bentleys.html

[baza]

Bought a bowler and umbrella as a teenager, never pulled any ladies in catsuits though, what a gent.

[cupid04]

RIP Patrick. I loved both 'The avengers' and 'The new avengers.'

[cupid04]

I loved the episode where he went round the countryside with his bowler hat on the car to preserve a set of fingerpints!

[tonyav]

Did your brolly have a sneaky sword hidden in it , baza.

[Buenchico]

>>>what a gent

Yes, John Steed was the 'perfect English gentleman' - despite Patrick MacNee being an American citizen!

[Hypognosis]

R.I.P. Patrick.

I could never work out whether 'Steed' involved actual acting or if he was just being himself. I liked to believe the latter but then maybe that's what acting skill is all about?

Christopher Lee, mentioned above, went only the other week, didn't he?

I hate to say "They're all going now" but I guess TV ownership exploded in the 60s so the number of celebrities who -everyone- had heard of really started to grow from then onwards.

[tonyav]

Could that have been for tax purposes, Chris.

[Buenchico]

>>>Could that have been for tax purpose

Not unless he was able to foresee his future success. He became a US citizen in 1959, two years before The Avengers found its way onto our screens.

[tonyav]

Thanks Chris. Looks to me like he tried to make it in hollywood but it didn't happen for him.

[jno]

Wikipedia suggests he kept British nationality alongside US citizenship, though that sounds unlikely to me.

[Buenchico]

The USA doesn't officially accept 'dual nationality' for its citizens. Anyone taking up US citizenship is required to give up any other citizenship.

However the UK does recognise 'dual nationality' (and doesn't recognise that US requirement), so he could have retained his British passport and simply not mentioned it to the US authorities.

[Gromit]

From a 1997 interview...

// When production on the original Avengers ended in 1969, Macnee settled permanently in America. He has dual citizenship and therefore possesses two passports. "I travel to and from the United States on the American one, but throughout Europe of course I travel on the British passport," says Macnee, adding sniffily, "I saw Joan Collins in the paper the other day getting an OBE saying, 'I am proud that I never gave up my British citizenship'. Well neither did I - you don't have to. Elizabeth Taylor hasn't given up her British citizenship - it's very important to her." //

[Berniecuddles2]

Funny enough was watching an old episode of the avengers last night with tara king in it ...R.I.P