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Farewell John Steed - Patrick Macnee Dies
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Macnee’s mother took refuge in a circle of friends that included Tallulah Bankhead and the madam Mrs Meyrick, before absconding with a wealthy lesbian, Evelyn. Young Patrick was brought up by the pair and was instructed to call Evelyn “Uncle”. He managed to resist their efforts to dress him as a girl, wearing a kilt as a compromise. His father fled to India, from where he was later expelled for urinating off a balcony onto the heads of the Raj’s elite, gathered below for a race-meeting.
Evelyn financed Macnee’s education, first at Summerfields — where he first acted, playing opposite Christopher Lee — and then Eton. His corruption began when he was introduced to whisky by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, who had escaped into the garden with a bottle when brought in to consecrate Evelyn’s private chapel. Macnee was then expelled from Eton for running a pornography and bookmaking empire.
Patrick Macnee, actor - obituary | via @Telegraph
Evelyn financed Macnee’s education, first at Summerfields — where he first acted, playing opposite Christopher Lee — and then Eton. His corruption began when he was introduced to whisky by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, who had escaped into the garden with a bottle when brought in to consecrate Evelyn’s private chapel. Macnee was then expelled from Eton for running a pornography and bookmaking empire.
Patrick Macnee, actor - obituary | via @Telegraph
Patrick Macnee, actor - obituary | via @Telegraph
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I thought they were both great, partly for the way they played off each other. He was less interesting with Honor Blackman, and I gave up shortly after Joanna Lumley took Rigg's place and it became too self-consciously wacky. In its time it was genuinely groundbreaking though, there was nothing else on TV like it.
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