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Patrick McGoohan dies in L.A.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:59 pm
by Romulus111VADT
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=347713>1=28101

'Prisoner' actor Patrick McGoohan dies in L.A.
Jan. 14, 2009, 11:49 AM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Patrick McGoohan, an Emmy-winning actor who created and starred in the cult classic television show "The Prisoner," has died. He was 80.

McGoohan died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a short illness, his son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, said Wednesday.

McGoohan won two Emmys for his work on the Peter Falk detective drama "Columbo," and more recently appeared as King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film "Braveheart."

But he was best known as the title character Number Six in "The Prisoner," a surreal 1960s British series in which a former spy is held captive in a small village and constantly tries to escape.

Re: Patrick McGoohan dies in L.A.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:31 pm
by aussiewannabe
Not Patrick McGoohan :(

Re: Patrick McGoohan dies in L.A.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:21 am
by ozzy72
I shall watch Escape From Alcatraz tonight in memory (he was excellent as the gritty warder in that) :'(

Re: Patrick McGoohan dies in L.A.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:10 pm
by beaky
Not many actors could glower the way he did. I loved Number Six, and his other roles... very sad. Another of my childhood icons... pffft!