macnee made his movie debut as extra in the movie "pygmalión" (1938), with leslie howard. after world war ii, he started making british television appearances in "morning departure" (1946), "hamlet" (1947), "macbeth" (1947), "the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde" (1950). these were all were movies made ​​for television. in 1950, he was in some episodes of the british series "bbc sunday-night theatre", and in 1952 he starred in his first series "tales of adventure" as roger sudden. "tales of adventure" was a canadian tv series.