Patrick McGoohan - DEAD!

[Furtherman]

Longshanks is dead. He is no longer a prisoner of this life.

'Prisoner' actor Patrick McGoohan dies in LA

Jan 14, 11:49 AM (ET)

By ANDREW DALTON

LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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.

[KingGeno]

Ah man. He's one of those actors that were powerful on-screen, but not a lot of people knew him by name here in the states.

Nothing better than when he threw that mo military strategist out the window in Braveheart.

[JustJon]

Number 6 has left the village...

[celery]

Who?

How old are you people?

[Judge Smails]

I hear he's going to be burried in a Zorbing coffin.

(Just Google it and you'll get it)

[Freakshow]

Who?

How old are you people?

you weren't alive in 2000? Some of us are simpsons fans...

http://www.rickmcgrath.com/not_a_number/simpsons1.jpg

[Misteriosa]

i will miss you #6

http://tvbacon.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/prisoner460.jpg

[NYHCmikeX]

you weren't alive in 2000? Some of us are simpsons fans...

http://www.rickmcgrath.com/not_a_number/simpsons1.jpg

You know, once you get used to the constant druggings, this place isnt so bad.

[Misteriosa]

He has revolted. Resisted. Fought. Held fast. Maintained. Destroyed resistance. Overcome coercion. The right to be a person, someone or individual. We applaud his private war, and concede that despite materialistic efforts, he has survived intact and secure!”
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/88/6488-004-96D89FFF.jpg

[jonyrotn]

Great...Now his gay son is gonna make Boy George and Clay Aiken Knights..

[Freitag]

Cause of death?

Gas flooding his apartment after he resigned.

[Kublakhan61]

I will now make my pilgrimage to Portmeirion. Rest in Peace, Number 6.

[pennington]

Born in Queens, NYC.

R.I.P.

[AnnoyedGrunt]

I hear he's going to be burried in a Zorbing coffin.

(Just Google it and you'll get it)

When you do a search for a Zonbing coffin this post is the first thing that pops up.

[Judge Smails]

When you do a search for a Zonbing coffin this post is the first thing that pops up.


Oofa!

Zorbing:

http://www.jimcarroll.com/weblog/archives/pictures/zorbing.jpg



The Prisoner - Rover:

http://teachingtolkien.org/myPictures/_41030784_prisoner203.jpghttp://www.acbm.com/concours/prisoner/images/rover/etouff.jpg

[A.J.]

Be seeing you.

[PD]

I saw this; it was a bit overshadowed by Montalban in the press.

I loved the Prisoner; I used to catch it on PBS.

Not everyone realizes that the Prisoner was a sequel to "Secret Agent Man" - also not a bad show, but not at the same level.

RIP