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Patrick McGoohan....No6....Dies aged 80!.....

Prisoner Star McGoohan Dies At 80



Patrick McGoohan, the creator and star of cult television classic The Prisoner, has died aged 80. Skip related content
Related photos / videos Prisoner Star McGoohan Dies At 80 He died on Tuesday after a short illness, his son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, told the Associated Press in Los Angeles.

McGoohan played the title character Number Six in the surreal 1960s show filmed in Portmeirion in Wales.

He also won two Emmy Awards for his work on the Peter Falk detective drama Columbo.

In more recent years he appeared as the villainous King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart.

The Prisoner, which first aired in 1967, followed the adventures of a secret agent who resigns his job before being kidnapped and taken to a beautiful but sinister prison, called The Village, where all the inmates are known only by a number.

Anyone trying to escape was chased by a large white globe.

The show gave rise to the famous phrase: "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

McGoohan reportedly created The Prisoner in a period of frustration after resigning from his long-running role as a secret agent on Danger Man.

There has often been talk of a feature film of The Prisoner, with McGoohan himself apparently keen on Mel Gibson taking the lead role, but it has never been developed.

James Caviezel and Sir Ian McKellen have also been linked to a television remake.

McGoohan also had parts in the 1996 screen adaptation of John Grisham's A Time To Kill and in Don Siegel's 1979 Clint Eastwood thriller Escape From Alcatraz, in which he played a fearsome prison warder.

McGoohan is survived by his wife of 57 years and three daughters.



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Reply #1 posted 01/15/09 7:39am

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Reply #2 posted 01/15/09 7:52am

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I read this news yesterday

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Reply #3 posted 01/15/09 10:48am

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Reply #5 posted 01/16/09 12:06am

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sad I remember watching that show when I was very little and being terrifed of that white ball.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire


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noimageatall said:

sad I remember watching that show when I was very little and being terrifed of that white ball.


They used around 2,000 weather balloons in the filming of all episodes.

From a selfish point of view I'm sorry I never got to meet the man...

... I've met those who worked with him.. but never the man himself.


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Reply #7 posted 01/16/09 2:11pm

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Steadwood said:

noimageatall said:

sad I remember watching that show when I was very little and being terrifed of that white ball.


They used around 2,000 weather balloons in the filming of all episodes.

From a selfish point of view I'm sorry I never got to meet the man...

... I've met those who worked with him.. but never the man himself.


dove


So that's what I was so terrified of? lol





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