LOS ANGELES — 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.
1 comment:
I have this entire series in my collection. I really loved the surreal weirdness of this show. The giant bubbles that chased anyone trying to escape, the strange people he encountered in his search for number 1, even the costumes were beautifully odd. It was an artistic masterpiece. RIP Patrick.
Post a Comment