The New Number One
“I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.”
–No.6; Arrival
-Roger Langley, biographer/ courtesy of Six of One Prisoner Appreciation Society
Patrick McGoohan dies at 80; TV’s ‘Secret Agent’ and ‘Prisoner’
The actor often played villains on TV and in movies. But he gained his greatest fame as the TV spy John Drake. He also won two Emmys for ‘Columbo.’
By Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times
January 15, 2009
The actor often played villains on TV and in movies. But he gained his greatest fame as the TV spy John Drake. He also won two Emmys for ‘Columbo.’
By Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times
January 15, 2009
Patrick McGoohan, a two-time Emmy award-winning actor who starred as a British spy in the 1960s TV series ‘Secret Agent’ and gained cult status later in the decade as the star of the enigmatic series ‘The Prisoner,’ has died.
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
Los Angeles Times
January 15, 2009
There was always humor in his contrariness, and if Number 6 was fated corporeally to remain a prisoner — caught at the border by Rover, the bouncing ball from hell, or shown that his imagined escape was merely an illusion — he remained himself. As hard as they tried, they could not wash his brain.
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