Patrick MacNee RIP

[jonsie]

A good friend @perksie has just posted this....halfway through the year and another icon passes. You have to be of a certain age to remember the original Avengers on TV.

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

[Cleoriff]

Oh what a shame. I remember 'John Steed' very well.... R.I.P.

The Avengers gave Joanna Lumley a step up the ladder as well

[Anonymous]

I remember him as a great character called sir Godfrey Tibbet in roger moores last James Bond film a view to a kill released in 1985 & my favourite bond film ever

[perksie]

He had a long and varied career and you couldn't say butter would melt.

He was expelled from Eton for selling pornography and being a bookmaker for his fellow students.

He also served as a sub-lieutenant on motor torpedo boats in 1943.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Macnee

He used to visit his mother who lived in the Methuen Arms Hotel in Corsham, Wiltshire, where the lads I worked with would have a drink on payday.

Others spotted him visiting but I never did.

[gindygoo]

Ah memories!

One of the first things I remember watching as a child was the old avengers!

Him and Joanna Lumley were good, who was the other one, Peel? The actress who played her, with the dark hair?? Oh that's gonna bug me now!

Google is my friend!

[Cleoriff]

Diana Rigg.....

[perksie]

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@gindygoo wrote:


Him and Joanna Lumley were good, who was the other one, Peel? The actress who played her, with the dark hair?? Oh that's gonna bug me now!

 There were also Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) and Tara King (Linda Thorson), the original star in the first series was Dr David Keel (Ian Hendry) with Steed as the assistant back in 1961.

[Anonymous]

Hendry then went on to appear in the original Get Carter with Sir Michael Caine & The Omen