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Author Topic: Number 6 dies at 80. Todd McCracken Master Film Handler Posts: 263 From: Northridge, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 01-14-2009 01:25 PM                    One of my favorite actors died yesterday, Patrick McGoohan. So, here is the entire Prisoner series streaming on AMC. Most of the youngsters would know him better as King Edward in Braveheart.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-14-2009 01:33 PM                     From the BBC, the story below: "Emmy-winning actor Patrick McGoohan, best known for starring in cult 1960s TV show The Prisoner, has died at the age of 80. He died in Los Angeles after a short illness, his film producer son-in-law Cleve Landsberg told Associated Press. McGoohan played the character Six in the surreal 1960s show, filmed in the north Wales village of Portmeirion. He won two Emmy awards for his work on TV detective series Columbo, playing different characters. The first came for an episode of the series in 1974, with another 16 years later. 'I am a free man' The screen star also won a Bafta award for best television actor in 1959 for his role in The Greatest Man In The World, a one-off drama in ITV's Armchair Theatre series. In more recent years, McGoohan played King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart. Patrick McGoohan The actor also starred in ITV series Danger Man, which began in 1960 The actor, who was born in New York and raised in England and Ireland, came to screen prominence in TV series Danger Man, in which he played a secret service agent. The programme later aired as Secret Agent in the US. He was later considered for the role of James Bond for the movie Dr No. But McGoohan was chiefly associated with cult ITV drama The Prisoner, writing some of the episodes himself under a different name. His character spent the entire time attempting to escape from The Village and finding out the identity of his captor, the elusive Number One. He repeatedly declared: "I am not a number - I am a free man!" In 2000, McGoohan reprised his most famous role in an episode of The Simpsons. McGoohan's last role came in 2002, as a voice artist in animated picture Treasure Planet. Last year, ITV confirmed that Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel would take the role of Number Six in a remake of The Prisoner, which will also star Sir Ian McKellen." .............................................................. I use to have "KAR120C" as a username on some extinct chat forums  |  IP: Logged Todd McCracken Master Film Handler Posts: 263 From: Northridge, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 01-14-2009 01:41 PM                    Hehehe, yeah my ebay user name is kar120cc (the one c version was always taken)  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-14-2009 01:59 PM                       Aside from his "Columbo" appearances (of which, he also directed), I'll probably best remember him as Devereau in "Silver Streak".  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 01-14-2009 03:42 PM                        I remember him as Mr. Smith in Ice Station Zebra where is awakened from a sound sleep by an actor calling him Mr. Smith. He shoves a gun in the mans face later the captain of the ship ask him what happened. "It wasn't so much being awakened it was what he called me." McGoohan Rock Hudson "He called you Mr. Smith." McGoohan "I once killed a man called Jones. Though not for that reason, of course. "  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-14-2009 04:09 PM                     So, Number 6 finally escapes The Village. Guess someone has to say it: "Be seeing you!"  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-14-2009 08:05 PM                     Amazing when one does a Google search on "the Prisoner", how many fan based sites that are in respect of this short, 17 episode show... My first experience of "the Prisoner" was in the Summer of 1968 when our local CBS station broadcast this show. as a kid of high school age was totally absorbed in this form of futuristic drama which presented the form of 'dehumanization' that came from "across the pond". I've got the A&E DVD set of these episodes. ..and I have seen a Lotus Super7 car like he drove in the series..and this car is still available in kit form to build. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-15-2009 12:26 AM                  My favorite among his works is "Ice Station Zebra" and of course his "Columbo" stuff. RIP Mr. McGoohan  |  IP: Logged Steve Wilson Expert Film Handler Posts: 109 From: Paoli, IN, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 01-16-2009 09:50 PM                        I remember this guy the most from the early days of Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color. The 3 part movie was, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. WDP just realeased a newly restored version of the miniseries. They put in on the market for 30 days and then pulled it for some unknown reason. I just picked up a copy on Ebay and paid a fairly high price to get a copy.  |  IP: Logged

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