File dated 27.9.65 of actor Patrick Macnee, as John Steed, and Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, in the sixties hit series The Avengers. Award-winning actor Ralph Fiennes is to play pinstriped hero John Steed, opposite Sean Connery as the diabolical villain Sir August de Wynter, with Uma Thurman playing Emma Peel, in a film remake of the classic series, it was announced today (Friday
