Patrick Macnee

Daniel Patrick Macnee , known professionally as Patrick Macnee, was a BritishAmerican actor. He was best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the British television series The Avengers.

The elder of two sons, Macnee was born in Paddington, London in 1922 to Daniel Macnee and Dorothea Mary Hastings . His father trained race horses in Lambourn, and was known for his dress sense he had served as an officer in the Yorkshire Dragoons in the First World War. His maternal grandmother was Frances Alice Hastings , who was the daughter of ViceAdmiral George Fowler Hastings and granddaughter of Hans Francis Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon. His younger brother James, known as Jimmy, was born five years later.

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