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Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed MC OM [2] usually known as John Steed, is a fictional character and the central protagonist on the 1960s British spy series The Avengers and its 1970s sequel The New Avengers, played by Patrick Macnee in both; by Donald Monat in the South-African radio series adaptation of The Avengers; by ...
May 5, 2017 · The Avengers followed the golden rule of role-playing: Men want to be Steed and want Emma; and, remarkably, women want to be Emma and want Steed. Yet it is doubtful that all of this was planned—some of it just happened, which is all part of the magic.
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Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed MC, OM is usually known as John Steed, is a secret agent working for an unnamed branch of British intelligence. He was teamed with a variety of partners, including Dr. David Keel, Venus Smith, Dr Martin King, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel, Tara King, Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney, Purdey, and Mike Gambit.
Steed was born John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed sometime between 1922 and 1925 (the actor who played him, Patrick Macnee, was born 1922). A scion of a noble family, Steed attended Eton (like Macnee), where he once got into a fight with the school bully, James Bond, and was eventually expelled (like Macnee). Steed's best friend was Mark Crayford who later followed him into British Intelligence. However Crayford was always secretly jealous of Steed and later defected to the Soviet Union and attempted to destroy Steed and his legacy He was a distinguished veteran of World War II (like Macnee—but here their bios begin to diverge), training with the Coldstream Guards and then transferring to the Intelligence Corps. He spent the early part of his war service posted at RAF Camp 472 Hamelin, which was a jumping-off point for British spies on the continent. He received the Military Cross for single-handedly taking a German machine-gun post. Before leaving the British Army to join "The Ministry" in 1945, Steed achieved the rank of Major.
He maintained a modest mews flat in London during the 1960s (first at 5 Westminster Mews, later at 3 Stable Mews) and drove a variety of elaborate, old-fashioned cars, including a Rolls Royce and several different models of Bentley, one of which he calls Fido. In one episode also a Vauxhall 30/98 can be seen.
One of Steed's trademarks was his impeccable dress, often consisting of a three-piece suit with bowler hat and ever-present umbrella. His bowler and umbrella were in fact his favourite weapons. Steed's umbrella, with its distinctive whangee handle, was known for containing a sword, though there were other versions, including one that featured a sound recorder and one with a camera hidden under the handle for covert photography ("The Cybernauts"), and one that contained measures of whisky.
The bowler was metal plated and very hard, it could stop bullets and knock down opponents.
John Steed is an agent for the Ministry of Elite Intelligence. He is assigned to work with Dr Emma Peel to discover the true identity of who sabotaged the Prospero Program. Steed suspects that former ministry agent Sir August de Wynter is behind the attack due to his fascination with the weather and vast resources. Steed worked with Peel to stop Wy...
May 5, 2017 · Weight: 175 lbs. John Wickham Gascoyne Berresford Steed was born in the mid-twenties to a noble British family. Educated at Eton, he joined the armed forces prior to World War II.
The New Avengers. The Avengers is a British espionage television series, created in 1961, that ran for 161 episodes until 1969. It initially focused on David Keel (Ian Hendry), [5] aided by John Steed (Patrick Macnee).
Patrick Macnee portrayed John Steed for ten years from 1960 to 1969, returning in The New Avengers (1976 - 1977), a follow-up which was made by the producers of the final series of the original version.
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John Steed is based on the character originally portrayed by Patrick Macnee for the 1960s TV series The Avengers.
