FTA-TV RIP Patrick McGoohan

[Dry Rot]

The Prisoner is one of my favourite shows. RIP Mr Smooth of the sixties.

Patrick McGoohan

Actor who turned down the roles of James Bond and The Saint to find fame instead as the anonymous Number Six in The Prisoner.

Last Updated: 12:17AM GMT 15 Jan 2009

Patrick McGoohan, who died on January 13 aged 80, starred in two of the most memorable British television series of the 1960s, Danger Man and The Prisoner.

If Danger Man was somewhat typical of 1960s espionage drama and derring-do, The Prisoner was a more cerebral affair in which McGoohan played a character known only as Number Six. The series, which was made in Britain and drew on elements of science fiction, concerned a former spy who was incarcerated in a small enclave called The Village. Attempts to escape were consistently frustrated by the mysterious Number One. It was McGoohan himself who came up with the idea for the show, and he himself directed several episodes. Indeed, many aspects of the series were based on his own life: for example, the birth date of Number Six, revealed in one episode, was the same as his own....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4242255/Patrick-McGoohan.html

 

[DB10]

RIP.

He was a truly great actor and brilliant in Braveheart.

 

[Bomber32]

Very sad news about Patrick McGoohan.

Excellent actor. One of his more memorable performances was as the Warden in Escape From Alcatraz.

 

[CF]

wow he was a really good actor RIP.

 

[Asgardian]

RIP Patrick

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[Dry Rot]

RIP Patrick

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Thanks for that - still one of the best intros.

 

[lenny&carl]

It's got a permanent place in my top 10 tv shows - and that's allowing space for 6 I haven't seen yet.

It was such a rational-conspiratorial show... but it was psychedelic too.... and was made in the years before there even WAS such a thing.

But the buildings and machines and hairstyles are clearly from an earlier age - essentially before plastic.

But the characters' drives & mannerisms were all from WW2 imho.... noone behaves or thinks like that anymore - hey, unless they're secretive military iq fellows living on a pretend island..... Porbably lots of that going on everyday, FAIK.


I beseech yee to at least watch the 2:30 intro that was on every week. The intro was not a 30 seconds here's the stars and directors etc... The Prisoner intro was an electric story in film clip form all by itself- back 44 years ago but.