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Patrick McGoohan's death is a sad loss to me, as I think it would have been to Chris Tame. 40 years after The Prisoner, we live in a culture, imposed by The Regime, ever and ever closer to The Village. DRG
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["The Prisoner's Patrick McGoohan dies aged 80
Patrick McGoohan, the creator and star of cult classic The Prisoner, has died aged 80, it was confirmed today.
He died yesterday after a short illness, his son-in-law film producer Cleve Landsberg said.
McGoohan played the title character Number Six in the surreal 1960s show filmed in Portmeirion in Wales.
Actor Patrick McGoohan, who has died aged 80, in a scene from the television series The Prisoner
He also won two Emmy Awards for his work on the Peter Falk detective drama Columbo.
Patrick McGoohan at his Los Angeles home in April last year
In more recent years he appeared as King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart.
McGoohan was a stage actor before landing TV and film roles.
In 1955 he landed a five-year Rank contract and in the early 1960s McGoohan starred in All Night Long, an attempt at re-staging Shakespeare's Othello in the context of a fashionable London jazz party.
The Danger Man star scripted and directed several episodes of The Prisoner in addition to serving as executive producer and starring as the lead.
The cult show tells the story of a man who finds himself trapped in a mysterious and surreal place known as The Village, with no memory of how he arrived.
As he frantically explores his environment, he discovers that its inhabitants are identified by number instead of by name and have no memory of a prior existence or outside civilisation.
Not knowing who[m] to trust, Number Six is driven by the desperate need to discover the truth behind The Village, which is controlled by the sinister and charismatic Number Two.
In the early 1960s series Danger Man Patrick McGoohan starred as British Secret Agent John Drake
In 1972 McGoohan moved to the US, where he continued to work in film and television.
He was born in New York to immigrant parents who soon returned to their native Ireland. McGoohan was then raised in Ireland and England.
He had three daughters, Catherine, Anne and Frances, with wife Joan Drummond and
was also grandfather to Sarah, Erin, Simon, Nina, and Paddy and a great-grandfather to Jack."]
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["The Prisoner's Patrick McGoohan dies aged 80
Patrick McGoohan, the creator and star of cult classic The Prisoner, has died aged 80, it was confirmed today.
He died yesterday after a short illness, his son-in-law film producer Cleve Landsberg said.
McGoohan played the title character Number Six in the surreal 1960s show filmed in Portmeirion in Wales.
Actor Patrick McGoohan, who has died aged 80, in a scene from the television series The Prisoner
He also won two Emmy Awards for his work on the Peter Falk detective drama Columbo.
Patrick McGoohan at his Los Angeles home in April last year
In more recent years he appeared as King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart.
McGoohan was a stage actor before landing TV and film roles.
In 1955 he landed a five-year Rank contract and in the early 1960s McGoohan starred in All Night Long, an attempt at re-staging Shakespeare'
The Danger Man star scripted and directed several episodes of The Prisoner in addition to serving as executive producer and starring as the lead.
The cult show tells the story of a man who finds himself trapped in a mysterious and surreal place known as The Village, with no memory of how he arrived.
As he frantically explores his environment, he discovers that its inhabitants are identified by number instead of by name and have no memory of a prior existence or outside civilisation.
Not knowing who[m] to trust, Number Six is driven by the desperate need to discover the truth behind The Village, which is controlled by the sinister and charismatic Number Two.
In the early 1960s series Danger Man Patrick McGoohan starred as British Secret Agent John Drake
In 1972 McGoohan moved to the US, where he continued to work in film and television.
He was born in New York to immigrant parents who soon returned to their native Ireland. McGoohan was then raised in Ireland and England.
He had three daughters, Catherine, Anne and Frances, with wife Joan Drummond and
was also grandfather to Sarah, Erin, Simon, Nina, and Paddy and a great-grandfather to Jack."]
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