Quotes

[on Patrick McGoohan] Patrick is just about the closest to being a stunt man that any actor that I know, apart from Burt Lancaster. Patrick was so good except he can't throw a left hand punch!

[on Patrick Macnee] Patrick Macnee has got fourteen left legs. And seven right hands. He's a great guy, but it's handbags at ten paces. So what happened then was the brolly came in and the 'titfer' came in because you can clunk people on the head with that and, I tell you, it hurt! So that's how it came about because he's not an action man.

[on Honor Blackman] I love [her] to death as well. I think everybody does. She's beautiful and a very good friend of mine because we worked together for many years. On this particular show, one of the live Avengers shows with Ian Hendry - a big fight sequence with Honor in a railway station, in the waiting room. It was the final thing on the show. The final punch on the show was from Honor to me to go backwards over a table. Unfortunately - and this was live television - it connected right there [on the nose] and blood went everywhere. I literally did go backwards and finished up lying across a table with my head upside down and blood pouring out. There was the camera, a fantastic shot, but I didn't appreciate it very much! She was off camera then because it had panned down onto me. I saw the rushes the next day - they weren't rushes then, but I saw the show and there was another camera on her and they said "Cut!" and she flew over and I got the biggest cuddle - how about that, it was worth the blood! She was really, really concerned, but it was a hell of a good fight.