January 14, 2009

Now This One Stings

From CBS News:
Patrick McGoohan, an actor who created and starred in the cult classic TV show "The Prisoner," died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a short illness. He was 80.
More info:
McGoohan starred in the 1960s CBS series "Secret Agent," and won two Emmys for his guest appearances on the detective drama "Columbo." Most recently he appeared as King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson Academy Award-winning film "Braveheart."

But he was most famous as the character known only as Number Six in "The Prisoner," a 1968 British series about a spy who resigns from the intelligence service, only to be abducted and held captive in a mysterious haven known as The Village. There his overseers strip him of his identity in their attempts to glean information, while thwarting his attempts to escape.
Number 6 was my hero. I am sad the actor who played him has passed on.

In his honor:
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2009 at 11:09 PM

    And, of course, he was also the father/veterinarian who put his daughter's cat, "Thomasina." Wonderful World of Disney showed it at least twice a year.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2009 at 11:12 PM

    "To sleep." "Who put his daughter's cat, Thomasina, to sleep."

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  3. EdHeathJanuary 15, 2009 at 5:58 AM

    In fact, McGoohan also had a great role in the guilty pleasure "Ice Station Zebra".

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  4. Social Justice NPC Anti-Paladin™January 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM

    Isn't the village/community in "The Prisoner" the goal/society that progressives are working for.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 15, 2009 at 2:32 PM

    What? Warrantless wiretaps? Eavesdropping? Monitoring daily movements? "Enhanced Interrogation?" All in the name of protecting the State?

    Sounds much more like Dick Cheney's dream, than that of any progressive I know.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM

    Heir, you've never seen the Prisoner, have you? You know, sometimes there's a place for making political cracks; this is not one of them.

    Patrick McGoohan was a great actor. I discovered him in Braveheart and eventually got round to watching some of his classic TV series from the 60s(Danger Man, The Prisoner). Very cool stuff.

    Also, Ricardo Montalban has passed away. I knew him as the Fantasy Island guy and Khan from Star Trek. Another great actor from the classic era gone - not too many left these days.

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  7. Clyde WynantJanuary 16, 2009 at 7:01 AM

    "I am not a number, I am a free man."

    Numbah 6

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