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Daniel Patrick Macnee (6 February 1922 – 25 June 2015) was a British-American actor best known for his breakthrough role as secret agent John Steed in the television series The Avengers (1961–1969).
Steed was born John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed sometime between 1922 and 1925 (the actor who played him, Patrick Macnee, was born 1922).A scion of a noble family, Steed attended Eton (like Macnee), where he once got into a fight with the school bully, James Bond, and was eventually expelled (like Macnee). [4]
Emma Peel and John Steed were seen among the crowd in a bar scene in Kingdom Come #2 (1996) by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. Emma Peel and John Steed appeared unnamed in Superman #13 (1988) by John Byrne and Karl Kesel. A crossover series, Batman '66 Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel, was launched in June 2016 as a joint effort between DC Comics and Boom ...
"A Touch of Brimstone" is the twenty-first episode of the fourth series of the 1960s British spy television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee as John Steed and Diana Rigg as Emma Peel. It was filmed c. December 1965, and was first broadcast on British television on 15 February 1966.
This is a list of actors who appeared in the British spy-fi television series The Avengers between 1961 and 1969 and its sequel The New Avengers between 1976 and 1977. Many of the actors also appeared in ITC Entertainment productions such as The Saint, Danger Man, The Baron, The Champions, The Prisoner, Man in a Suitcase, Department S, The Persuaders!, The Protectors and Randall and Hopkirk ...
The Avengers is a 1998 American satirical spy action comedy film directed by Jeremiah Chechik, an adaptation of the 1961–1969 British television series of the same name.It stars Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as secret agents John Steed and Emma Peel, and Sean Connery as Sir August de Wynter, a mad scientist bent on controlling the world's weather.
As he was for most of the original Avengers series, John Steed is once again acting without a direct superior—in many ways his character takes on the duties of "Mother" from the Tara King era of that series. Steed is seen to be the mentor to Mike Gambit and Purdey, taking on a paternal role towards them (especially in the episode "Hostage ...
John Dankworth (theme) Production code: 3622 [1] ... Steed finds himself protecting a British defector, formerly Steed's target and now an enemy diplomat, from an ...