1. Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an Irish-American actor of film, television, and theatre.
40 Facts About Patrick McGoohan
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Patrick McGoohan began his career in England during the 1950s and became well known for the titular role of secret agent John Drake in the ITC espionage programme Danger Man.
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Patrick McGoohan then created, produced, and starred as former British intelligence agent Number Six in the surrealistic ITV series The Prisoner.
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Patrick McGoohan won the 1960 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor for his work on Danger Man, and twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, including its inaugural 1975 entry, for roles on Columbo.
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Patrick Joseph McGoohan was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City on March 19,1928, to Irish Catholic immigrant parents Thomas McGoohan and Rose McGoohan.
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Patrick McGoohan attended St Marie's School, then St Vincent's School, and De La Salle College, all in Sheffield.
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Patrick McGoohan excelled in mathematics and boxing, and left school at the age of 16 to return to Sheffield, where he worked as a chicken farmer, bank clerk, and lorry driver before getting a job as a stage manager for Sheffield Repertory Theatre.
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When one of the actors became ill, Patrick McGoohan substituted for him, which began his acting career.
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In 1955, Patrick McGoohan featured in a West End stage production of Serious Charge, as a Church of England vicar accused of being homosexual.
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Patrick McGoohan had an uncredited role in the movie The Dam Busters, standing guard outside a briefing room.
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Patrick McGoohan had small roles in Passage Home, The Dark Avenger and I Am A Camera.
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Patrick McGoohan could be seen in Zarak for Warwick Films.
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Patrick McGoohan played the lead in "The Makepeace Story" for BBC Sunday Night Theatre.
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Patrick McGoohan did Ring for Catty on stage in 1956.
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Patrick McGoohan had frequent roles in television anthology series such as Television Playwright, Folio, Armchair Theatre, ITV Play of the Week and ITV Television Playhouse.
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Patrick McGoohan was given a leading role in Nor the Moon by Night, filmed in South Africa.
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Patrick McGoohan then did some TV work, winning a BAFTA in 1960.
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Patrick McGoohan played the role in a BBC television production in August 1959.
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Michael Meyer, who translated the stage version, thought Patrick McGoohan's performance was the best and most powerful he had ever seen.
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Patrick McGoohan appeared in the movie Two Living, One Dead, filmed in Sweden.
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Patrick McGoohan featured in two movies directed by Basil Dearden: All Night Long, an updating of Othello, and Life for Ruth.
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Patrick McGoohan featured in an adaptation of The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan.
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Patrick McGoohan was one of several actors considered for the role of James Bond in Dr No While Patrick McGoohan, a Catholic, refused the role on moral grounds, the success of the Bond films is generally cited as the reason for Danger Man being revived.
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Patrick McGoohan spent some time working for The Walt Disney Company on The Three Lives of Thomasina and The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.
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Patrick McGoohan pitched a miniseries about a secret agent who angrily quits and is abducted to a surreal, cheerful holiday resort village.
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Grade asked for a budget, Patrick McGoohan had one ready, and they made a deal over a handshake early on a Saturday morning to produce The Prisoner.
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Patrick McGoohan was meant to follow it with the lead role of Dirk Struan in an expensive adaptation of the James Clavell best-seller Tai-Pan but the project was cancelled before filming.
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Patrick McGoohan played James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray in Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Patrick McGoohan directed Richie Havens in a rock opera version of Othello, entitled Catch My Soul, but disliked the experience.
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Patrick McGoohan received two Emmy Awards for his work for the television series Columbo, with his long-time friend Peter Falk.
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Patrick McGoohan said that his first appearance on Columbo was probably his favourite American role.
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Patrick McGoohan directed five Columbo episodes, one of which he wrote and two of which he produced.
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Patrick McGoohan was involved with the Columbo series in some capacity from 1974 to 2000; his daughter Catherine Patrick McGoohan appeared with him in the episode "Ashes to Ashes".
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Patrick McGoohan had the lead in a Canadian movie, Kings and Desperate Men; then had supporting parts in Brass Target and the Clint Eastwood movie Escape from Alcatraz, portraying the prison's warden.
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Patrick McGoohan was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Best Actor for his performance.
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Patrick McGoohan could be seen in the movies Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend and Of Pure Blood as well as an episode of Murder, She Wrote.
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Patrick McGoohan's name was associated with several aborted attempts at producing a new movie version of The Prisoner.
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Patrick McGoohan was listed as executive producer for the movie, which never came to fruition.
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Patrick McGoohan was not involved with the project that was ultimately completed.
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Patrick McGoohan died following a "short illness" at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, on January 13,2009, at the age of 80.