Biografie

Although he worked memorably with Stanley Kubrick on two occasions, he had, like many other actors, a rather edgy relationship with the director. He once told an interviewer that Kubrick's direction of him consisted almost entirely of three sentences - "Do it faster", "Do it slower" and "Do it again". He added that the last of these was by far the most frequently-employed.

Magee had a reputation as a heavy drinker, which may have caused his premature death from a heart attack at 60.

Won Broadway's 1966 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for playing the Marquis de Sade in Peter Weiss' "Marat/Sade," a performance recreated in the film version of the same title, Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean-Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter der Anleitung des Herrn de Sade (1967).

When beginning his stage career, Patrick McGee chose to alter his surname to Magee. It's unclear why he chose to do this, although there have been reports that there was another actor named Patrick McGee, and that Magee wanted to avoid confusion.

Appeared in many TV, radio and stage productions of the works of Samuel Beckett.