I put up a picture of his most iconic role because most people didn’t recognize his name. For those not into the nerdy genres, he was also Sir Denis Eton-Hogg in This is Spinal Tap, the English owner of Polydor Records, the band’s latest label.
For me, Patrick will always be the kick-ass operative John Steed. A counter-intelligence investigator who never used a gun but could defeat the villains with his Umbrella Fu when the time for wits was over. This made The Avengers amusing to us Yanks and very English, as if the bowler weren’t enough.
I think I first encountered him on Battlestar Galactica (the heavily Mormon-influenced version) as the voice of Imperious Leader, the Cylon Emperor, and Count Iblis, the Colonial version of the Devil is my guess.
He receives the James Bond tags for being the awful, awful Roger Moore swan song A View to a Kill.