BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / RIP Patrick Macnee

**Posted by Harriet** June 26, 2015 9:47 am

I loved you in the The Avengers and had my first fandom moments with you. Thank you so much!

**Posted by tonnaree** June 26, 2015 12:13 pm

Same here. He was my very first definition of suave and dapper.

**Posted by Harriet** June 26, 2015 2:43 pm

And a bonus from wikipedia

Macnee appeared in Magnum, P.I. (1984) as a retired but delusional British agent who believed he was Sherlock Holmes, in a season four episode titled "Holmes Is Where the Heart Is." He played both Holmes and Dr. John Hamish Watson on several occasions. He played Watson three times: once alongside Roger Moore's Sherlock Holmes in a TV film, Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976), and twice with Christopher Lee, first in Incident at Victoria Falls (1991) and then in Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1992). He played Holmes in another TV film, The Hound of London (1993). He is thus one of only a very small number of actors to have portrayed both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on screen. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Macnee)

Last edited by Harriet (June 26, 2015 2:46 pm)

**Posted by Davina** June 26, 2015 4:20 pm

I wanted to be Emma Peel when I was a kid and I had a Purdey haircut. R.I.P. to a true gent!