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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 04:04 AM
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Prisoner Number 6 dies at age 80 (Patrick McGoohan)


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-mcgoohan15-2009jan15,0,1902952.story


Patrick McGoohan was No. 1 as 'Prisoner's' Number 6
The 'Prisoner' actor's indelible, implacable Number 6 lives on.

By ROBERT LLOYD, Television Critic

January 15, 2009

In the summer of 1968, the most important television series of my life premiered on CBS as a summer replacement for "The Jackie Gleason Show." A British import about a spy who, having resigned his position, is drugged and kidnapped and wakes up captive in a fanciful holiday resort, where he is hectored week after week to explain himself, “The Prisoner” starred and was co-created by Patrick McGoohan, who died in Los Angeles on Tuesday at the age of 80.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 04:13 AM
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1. I loved the concept of radio controlled bubbles snatching escapees
Wasn't he also Secret Agent Man?
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 04:15 AM
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2. An All Time Great Actor and Star
Too bad he just got typecast after Secret Agent and The Prisoner in supporting roles...But I remember in Braveheart as King when he suddenly threw his son's lover to his death so matter-of-factly... He was one of those who had a face of instant recognition...
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 07:02 AM
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6. Yes, he was.
He played King Edward so perfectly. His face was very recognizable but so was his voice. Superb.

Julie
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ConsAreLiars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 04:50 AM
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3. "The Prisoner," for those unfortunates who never saw it, is online at
http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner-1960s-series/

He created that short series to tell us something. We didn't hear it. And here we are.

The audio of "Secret Agent Man" is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-8yfFLmQ-c (ignore the graphics) and has stayed with me since the original TV program.

Archetypal in both roles. And we've seen nothing one like the characters he brought to life since then. A great loss. But he gave all of us a great gift.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 04:59 AM
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4. He will be missed, but isn't it telling that a 50+ year career, playing
hundreds, perhaps thousands of roles, is remembered for 1 television series that only lasted one season?

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.


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katmondoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 06:53 AM
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5. I had a secret crush on him for many years
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