Patrick Magee (actor)
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Patrick Magee (on left) and William Campbell in Dementia 13 (1963)
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Patrick George McGee 31 March 1922 Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, U.K. |
| Died | 14 August 1982 (aged 60) London, England, U.K. |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Occupation | Actor and director |
| Years active | 1959–1982 |
| Spouse(s) | Belle Sherry (1958–1982; his death); 2 children |
Patrick George McGee (31 March 1922 – 14 August 1982), known professionally as Patrick Magee, was a Northern Irish actor and director known for his collaborations with Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, as well as creating the role of the Marquis DeSade in the original stage and screen productions of Marat/Sade and his appearances in horror films and in two Stanley Kubrick films, A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon.
He was born in Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Born into a middle-class family, McGee was the first born of five children and was educated at St. Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh.
His first stage experience in Ireland was with Anew McMaster's touring company, performing the works of Shakespeare. It was here that he first worked with Pinter. He was then brought to London by Tyrone Guthrie for a series of Irish plays. He met Beckett in 1957 and soon recorded passages from the novel, Molloy, and the short story, From an Abandoned Work, for BBC radio. Impressed by "the cracked quality of Magee's distinctly Irish voice," Beckett requested copies of the tapes and wrote Krapp's Last Tape especially for the actor. First produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 28 October 1958, the play starred Magee directed by Donald McWhinnie. A televised version with Magee directed by McWhinnie was later broadcast by BBC2 on 29 November 1972. Beckett's biographer Anthony Cronin wrote that "there was a sense in which, as an actor, he had been waiting for Beckett as Beckett had been waiting for him."
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