Five things you didn't know about Patrick Macnee

Best known as the urbane, witty and well-dressed Avenger John Steed, Macnee preferred life in the nude

Patrick Macnee
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Patrick Macnee, the debonair star of the 1960s television series The Avengers, has died in California at the age of 93.

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