Patrick Magee
Gender: Male
Born: 31st March 1922
Died: 14th August 1982
TV programs: Beasts
Movies: Dementia 13, A Clockwork Orange, The Birthday Party, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Luther, The Fiend, The Final Programme, The Flipside of Dominick Hide, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Lady Ice, Marat/Sade, The Masque of the Red Death, Demons of the Mind, And Now the Screaming Starts!, Asylum, The Trojan Women, The Black Cat, Die, Monster, Die!, The Bronte Sisters, Samuel Beckett, Silence to Silence, The Monster Club, Barry Lyndon, Cromwell, Anzio, Tales from the Crypt, Hawk the Slayer, Galileo, The Young Racers, Passion, Zulu, Portrait in Terror, The Fiend, The Sleep of Death, King Lear, The Boys, Chariots of Fire
Patrick Magee (31 March 1922 – 14 August 1982) was a Northern Irish actor best known for his collaborations with Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, as well as his appearances in horror films and in Stanley Kubrick's films A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon.
He was born Patrick McGee in Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He was educated at the Roman Catholic St. Patrick's College in Armagh.
McGee changed his name to Magee for the stage. 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. In 1957 he met Beckett and recorded some of his prose for BBC radio. Beckett was so excited with his voice that he wrote Krapp's Last Tape especially for him (it was recorded by the BBC in 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."
In 1964, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, after Pinter, directing his own play The Birthday Party, specifically requested him for the role of McCann,
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