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Actor Patrick McGoohan Is dead at 80
« on: January 14, 2009, 09:04:55 PM »
'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.

Number 6 has finally escaped The Village
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Re: Actor Patrick McGoohan Is dead at 80
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2009, 09:39:37 PM »
RIP Number Six.

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Re: Actor Patrick McGoohan Is dead at 80
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2009, 10:15:24 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on January 14, 2009, 09:39:37 PM
RIP Number Six.



We lose the greats and re left with the drek that is Hollywood.
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Re: Actor Patrick McGoohan Is dead at 80
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2009, 12:07:19 AM »
That was one wierd TV show. I could not understand it.
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Re: Actor Patrick McGoohan Is dead at 80
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2009, 04:43:00 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on January 14, 2009, 10:15:24 PM
We lose the greats and re left with the drek that is Hollywood.


Sad isn't it. I doubt that Patrick McGoohan really got the credit he deserved for that TV show The Prisoner.
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Re: Actor Patrick McGoohan Is dead at 80
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2009, 04:55:42 PM »
Quote from: Airwolf on January 15, 2009, 04:43:00 PM
Sad isn't it. I doubt that Patrick McGoohan really got the credit he deserved for that TV show The Prisoner.

I just added all the Prisoner DVDs to my Netflix queue.
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