RIP Diana Rigg

[Waquoit]

Longtime Husky Nan avatar Diana Rigg has just died. Talk about a great run. She began her TV career as an icon and almost 60 years later she was still a TV icon. And inbetween she was a great classical stage actress and played the only character to marry James Bond!

 

[Kaizen]

R.I.P. ............

 

[RockyMTblue2]

RIP Mrs. Peel

 

[ConnecticutBB]

Longtime Husky Nan avatar Diana Rigg has just died. Talk about a great run. She began her TV career as an icon and almost 60 years later she was still a TV icon. And inbetween she was a great classical stage actress and played the only character to marry James Bond!

Couple questions..
Which Bond & which movie?
Just curious.

 

[psconn]

I had such a huge crush on Emma Peel.
At the other end of her career, Game of Thrones' Olenna Tyrell... scheming and plotting till the very end. So good.

 

[NoVaHusky]

On her majesty's Secret service. Bond was George Lazenby- his only Bond rolw

 

[Waquoit]

Couple questions..
Which Bond & which movie?
Just curious.

It was George Lazenby's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Roger Moore laid flowers on her grave in For Your Eyes Only.

 

[Hoops66]

The only one to marry James Bond....trivia.

 

[Waquoit]

The only one to marry James Bond....trivia.

In which movie?

 

[Hoops66]

In which movie?

See "Waquoit" above! Sorry.

 

[psconn]

 

[Ouremblem]

She will always be Emma Peel to me. Sad.

 

[Scud49]

Damn, RIP....a real fine actress and a babe....esp to me in my youthful teen days. RIP Diana....

 

[Bama fan]

RIP Mrs. Peel

Thank you @RockyMTblue2 . That made my day, week and possibly month. One could never have too much Emma Peel. This was my Dad's favorite show and he was enthralled with Ms Rigg. He is gone now, and I am really not sure where he landed. But I hope he runs into her wherever. It will make it all worthwhile!

 

[SimpleDawg]

RIP

A pretty face I've gotten used to through the years.

 

[cohenzone]

Beautiful and talented. The Avengers was great. And the recent deaths of celebs more or less my contemporaries hits home, especially when the image in the mind is of all of them at the height of their fame.

 

[JordyG]

From The Avengers to Game of Thrones, this classy woman graced the screen with her beauty, wit, charm, intelligence and sophistication. Although most here are old enough (as I) to remember her as Mrs. Peel, for me she will always be personified by the shrewd, insightful, smart and elegant Olenna Tyrell. This all when GOT didn't take the viewers intelligence, psyche, emotions, and ability to understand nuance for granted. RIP to a grand Dame...and &%#k 2020.

 

[Zinethar]

I never forgave the producers of the Avengers for letting he go.

 

[Steelerone]

The Avengers. One of the first really great shows to come to us from across the pond. The acting and plots were so far beyond some of the garbage we are subjected to now. Very little violence (the main chacacter's deadly weapon was an unbrella.) Diana Rigg fit her role like a glove and was actually one of the first female heroines in a series.

 

[Steelerone]

I never forgave the producers of the Avengers for letting he go.

Z, the producers did not let her go. That was her decesion. She didn't want to be typecast but I think it was too late for that wish to come true.

 

[Ozimoto]

Ah, Emma Peel. Definitely an influence on my understanding of what the feminine ideal was for me as a kid. Fun fact. George Lazenby was married to Pam Shriver in real life.

 

[Waquoit]

George Lazenby was married to Pam Shriver in real life.

I had forgotten that! Still scratching my head about that one.

 

[Bama fan]

I never forgave the producers of the Avengers for letting he go.

I think she left to play in the Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" She got the Mrs Peel role when Honor Blackman left the Avengers where she played Cathy Gale. Ms Blackman was one of the most famous "Bond girls" and left Steed for Bond playing Ms P. Galore. There is a story that Diana found out she was paid less than the cameraman in her first year as Peel and nearly bolted before getting a huge raise. Needless to say, Patrick McNee had some lovely partners.

 

[Steelerone]

Patrick McNee. Not a "pretty boy". used his umbrella as a weapon, dressed impeccabley , actually spoke the King's english. The exact opposite of today's "leading man". But was memorable in the role.