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He is perhaps best known for his role as the victimised writer Frank Alexander, who tortures Alex DeLarge with Beethoven 's music, in Stanley Kubrick 's film A Clockwork Orange (1971). His other role for Kubrick was as Redmond Barry's mentor, the Chevalier de Balibari, in Barry Lyndon (1975).
Patrick Magee. Born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, Patrick Magee is a classic example of how certain actors rate the stage far more highly than the screen. He was a favorite actor of Samuel Beckett, one of whose greatest plays, 'Krapp's Last Tape', was written specifically for him.
Patrick Joseph Magee (born 1951) is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, best known for planting a bomb in the Brighton Grand Hotel targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet, which killed five people.
Actor: A Clockwork Orange. Born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, Patrick Magee is a classic example of how certain actors rate the stage far more highly than the screen. He was a favorite actor of Samuel Beckett, one of whose greatest plays, 'Krapp's Last Tape', was written specifically for him.
Mar 21, 2021 · Patrick Magee. As a member of the Irish Republican Army, I planted a time bomb at the Tory Party conference in 1984 and tried to kill Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Here’s what led me to that point — and why I believe in the peace process today.
Jul 28, 2017 · A drunk, gambler and hell-raiser, but a towering acting talent ... remembering Patrick Magee. The Northern Ireland-born actor was a ground-breaking stage and screen star who is almost forgotten...
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.
Magee, Patrick (1924–82), actor, was born on 31 March 1924 in Edward Street, Armagh town, eldest of five children of Patrick McGee, schoolteacher and eventually principal of St Patrick's primary school.
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May 27, 2022 · Patrick Magee is the blind patient George Carter who, despite his dearth of sight, is keenly aware of the inequality that he and his fellow men are suffering because of the new strict superintendent Major Rogers.
Nimbus-haired, scowling character actor who made his film debut in the savage gangster film, "The Criminal" (1960) and is probably best known as the vengeful scribe in the nightmarish masterpiece, "A Clockwork Orange" (1971)....
