Daniel Patrick Macnee (6 February 1922 – 25 June 2015) was a British-American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing the role of secret agent John Steed in the British television series The Avengers throughout the 1960s and in the 1970s revival, The New Avengers. On Battlestar Galactica, he performed the voice of the Imperious Leader and its successor in Saga of a Star World, and was also the narrator heard in the opening credits for the first half of the season (presumably not meant to be the same entity). In War of the Gods, he played the character of Count Iblis.