Other Roles
Macnee's other significant roles have included playing Sir Godfrey Tibbett opposite Roger Moore in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, as Major Crossley in The Sea Wolves (again with Moore), guest roles in Encounter, Alias Smith and Jones, Hart to Hart, Murder, She Wrote, Battlestar Galactica and The Love Boat. He made an appearance in episode 10 of series one of The Twilight Zone in 1959 ("Judgment Night"). Though Macnee found fame as the heroic Steed, the majority of his guest appearances have been in villainous roles. He also presented the American paranormal series, Mysteries, Magic and Miracles. Macnee made his Broadway debut as the star of Anthony Shaffer's mystery Sleuth in 1972 and subsequently headlined the national tour of that play.
On television, in 1975, Macnee co-starred as the ship's captain with Peter Falk and Robert Vaughn in the Columbo episode "Troubled Waters", directed by Ben Gazzarra. In 1983 Mcnee played the role of Major Vickers in the television mini series For the Term of His Natural Life. He had recurring roles in the crime series Gavilan with Robert Urich and in the 1984 satire on big business, Empire, as the menacing M.D. Calvin Cromwell. In the original 1970s version of Battlestar Galactica, Macnee was the voice of the evil Imperious Leader of the Cylons, and appeared onscreen as the evil Count Iblis.
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