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What Was Patrick Macnee's Net Worth?
Patrick Macnee was an English actor, producer, and author who had a net worth of $3 million at the time of his death in 2015. Patrick Macnee was best known for playing the role of John Steed on the TV series "The Avengers" (1961–1969), and he reprised his role on "The New Avengers" in 1976.
Macnee had more than 170 acting credits to his name, including the films "A Christmas Carol" (1951), "King Solomon's Treasure" (1979), "The Howling" (1981), "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984), "A View to a Kill" (1985), and "Masque of the Red Death" (1989) and the television series "Tales of Adventure" (1952–1953), "Encounter" (1952–1960), "Battlestar Galactica" (1978–1979), "Gavilan" (1982–1983), "Empire" (1984), "Lime Street" (1985–1986), "P.S.I. Luv U" (1991), "Thunder in Paradise" (1994), and "Nightman" (1997–1998). Patrick also performed on Broadway, playing Demetrius in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1954) and Andrew Wyke in "Sleuth" (1972–1973). He was a producer on the TV series "Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years" in the early '60s, and he published the books "Avengers: Deadline" (1965), "Avengers: Dead Duck" (1966), "Blind in One Ear: The Avenger Returns" (1988), and "The Avengers: The Inside Story" (2008).
Early Life
Patrick Macnee was born Daniel Patrick Macnee on February 6, 1922, in Paddington, London, England. He was the son of Daniel and Dorothea Mabel Macnee, and he had a younger brother named James. Dorothea was a socialite, and Daniel Sr. trained race horses, served in the Yorkshire Dragoons as an officer during World War I, and was the grandson of artist Sir Daniel Macnee. Patrick's maternal grandmother, Frances Alice Hastings, was The 12th Earl of Huntingdon's granddaughter and Vice-Admiral George Fowler Hastings' daughter. Macnee's parents split up due to Dorothea coming out as a lesbian. Daniel Sr. moved to India, and Dorothea moved in with her partner, Evelyn Spottiswoode, who was wealthy because of the Dewar's whisky business. Patrick attended Summer Fields School in Oxford and Eton College in Berkshire. At Eton, he joined the Officer Training Corps and was a guard of honour at St George's Chapel for King George V in 1936. He was expelled from the school for selling pornography. Macnee enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art to study acting, but the Royal Navy called him up just before he was set to take his first leading role on the West End, which he would have performed alongsideVivien Leigh. In October 1942, he entered the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman, and less than a year later, he was promoted to sub-lieutenant, serving as a navigator on Motor Torpedo Boats. Patrick was later reassigned as a first lieutenant, and he came down with bronchitis right before D-Day. He was in the hospital recuperating when his crew and boat were lost in action. When Patrick left the Royal Navy in 1946, he had reached the rank of lieutenant.
Career
Early in his career, Macnee had uncredited roles in the films "Pygmalion" (1938), "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "Hamlet" (1948), and "The Small Back Room" (1949). He also appeared in the films "The Fatal Night" (1948) and "All Over the Town" (1949) and played Edgar Linton in the 1948 BBC adaptation "Wuthering Heights." In the '50s, Patrick was in films such as "The Girl Is Mine" (1950), "Dick Barton at Bay" (1950), "The Fighting Pimpernel" (1950), "The Battle of the River Plate" (1956), and "Les Girls" (1957), and he played Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" (1951). He appeared in 12 episodes of "Tales of Adventure" (1952–1953), and from 1961 to 1969, he starred as John Steed on the ITV spy series "The Avengers" alongsideDiana Rigg. The series aired 161 episodes over six seasons and earned two Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Dramatic Series. Macnee reprised his role in the spin-off "The New Avengers" from 1976 to 1977. In the '70s, Patrick appeared in the films "Incense for the Damned" (1970), "Mister Jerico" (1979), "The Billion Dollar Threat" (1979), and "King Solomon's Treasure" (1979) and guest-starred on "The Virginian" (1970), "Alias Smith and Jones" (1971), "Columbo" (1975), "The Hardy Boys" (1978), and "$weepstake$" (1979).
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