Patrick Magee

Patrick Magee was born on Mar 31, 1922 in UK. Patrick Magee's big-screen debut came with The Green Man directed by Robert Day in 1956, strarring Police Officer arresting Hawkins at end (uncredited). Patrick Magee is known for Chariots of Fire directed by Hugh Hudson, Nicholas Farrell stars as Aubrey Montague and Nigel Havers as Lord Andrew Lindsay. The upcoming new movie Patrick Magee plays is The Black Cat which will be released on Feb 10, 1984.

Born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, Patrick Magee is a classic example of how certain actors rate the stage far more highly than the screen. Magee was well aware that the vast majority of the films that he appeared in were dreadful (he mostly played sinister villains in horror films), but the money came in very handy in financing his distinguished stage work (he was a favorite actor of Samuel Beckett one of whose greatest plays, 'Krapp's Last Tape', was written specifically for him). However, he did do some outstanding work on film, most notably in Stanley Kubrick's Orange mécanique (1971) as the crippled writer Mr. Alexander, and in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), as the chevalier. He also appeared in Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963), Peter Brook's Marat/Sade (1967) and William Friedkin's The Birthday Party (1968). He also appeared in films by such cult directors as Roger Corman, Lucio Fulci and Walerian Borowczyk.