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Patrick Macnee

1922 - 2015

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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). Starting out as the assistant to David Keel (Ian Hendry), he became the lead when Hendry left after the first series, and was subsequently partnered with a succession of female assistants. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patrick Macnee has received more than 2,419,273 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Patrick Macnee is the 1,339th most popular actor (down from 976th in 2019), the 1,432nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,167th in 2019) and the 197th most popular British Actor.

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  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Patrick Macnee ranks 1,339 out of 9,996Before him are Stefanie Powers, Daniel Stern, Grace Moore, Robert Shaw, Michel Simon, and Bruce Spence. After him are Arnold Vosloo, Don Taylor, Miguel Ferrer, Elsa Pataky, Holly Hunter, and Conrad Bain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Patrick Macnee ranks 119Before him are Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, Miloš Jakeš, Bea Arthur, Juan Antonio Bardem, and Taro Kagawa. After him are Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jonas Mekas, Shigeru Mizuki, Pierre Hadot, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, and Dana Zátopková. Among people deceased in 2015, Patrick Macnee ranks 96Before him are Rose Francine Rogombé, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Philippe Honoré, André Brink, Kenzo Ohashi, and John Guillermin. After him are Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Mizuki, Ieng Thirith, Percy Sledge, Magali Noël, and Tadahiko Ueda.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Patrick Macnee ranks 1,432 out of 7,765Before him are Christopher Isherwood (1904), Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), Sydney Chaplin (1885), Ælle of Sussex (500), David Purley (1945), and Robert Shaw (1927). After him are Alvin Lee (1944), Albert Ketèlbey (1875), Lucinda Riley (1965), Gordon Ramsay (1966), Matthew Flinders (1774), and Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Patrick Macnee ranks 197Before him are Gemma Jones (1942), Peter Mayhew (1944), Frances Fisher (1952), Claire Bloom (1931), Sydney Chaplin (1885), and Robert Shaw (1927). After him are Edward Fox (1937), Frances de la Tour (1944), Marina Berti (1924), Francesca Annis (1945), Paul Bettany (1971), and Emilia Clarke (1986).

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