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.
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 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.
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 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.
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