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Patrick Magee (actor)
Northern Irish actor (1922–1982) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick George Magee (né McGee, 31 March 1922 – 14 August 1982) was a Northern Irish actor.[2] He was noted for his collaborations with playwrights Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, sometimes called "Beckett's favourite actor,"[3] as well as creating the role of the Marquis de Sade in the original stage and screen productions of Marat/Sade.
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![]() Magee in Dementia 13 (1963) | |
Born | Patrick George McGee (1922-03-31)31 March 1922[1] Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland |
Died | 14 August 1982(1982-08-14) (aged 60) London, England |
Education | St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh |
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Years active | 1959–1982 |
Spouse |
Belle Sherry (m. 1958) |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play 1966 Marat/Sade |
Known for his distinctive voice, he also appeared in numerous horror films and in two Stanley Kubrick films[4] – A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Barry Lyndon (1975) – and three Joseph Losey films – The Criminal (1960), The Servant (1963) and Galileo (1975). He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964 to 1970.
Critic Antonia Quirke posthumously described him as "a presence so full of strangeness and charisma and difference and power,"[5] while scholar Conor Carville wrote that Magee was an "avant-garde bad-boy" and "very important and unjustly forgotten figure who represents an important aspect of the cultural ferment of the 1960s and 1970s in Britain."[6]