Patrick McGoohan

Also known as Patrick MacGoohan, Patrick Joseph McGoohan, Patrick Joseph MacGoohan

Irish-American actor (1928–2009)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1928
Died: 2009
Works: 0

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Film & TV

Acting · New York City, New York, USA

Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an American-born actor, raised in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage and film career, most notably in the 1960s television series Danger Man (renamed Secret Agent when exported to the US), and The Prisoner. McGoohan wrote and directed several episodes of The Prisoner himself, occasionally using the pseudonyms Joseph Serf…

Known for

In My Mind — Self (archive footage)2017
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh — Dr. Christopher Syn / The Scarecrow (archive footage)2008
The Making of the Prisoner2007
Treasure Planet — Billy Bones (voice)2002
In Search of the Prisoner — Number Six (archive footage)2001
Hysteria — Dr. Harvey Langston1997
The Phantom — Phantom's Dad1996
A Time to Kill — Judge Omar Noose1996
Sad? — Number Six (archive footage)1996
Braveheart — King Edward1995

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1928
Active to: 2009

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Listeners: 629
Total plays: 2,192

Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an American-born actor, brought up in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage and film career, most notably in the 1960s television series Danger Man (renamed Secret Agent when exported to the US), and The Prisoner, which he co-created. McGoohan wrote and directed several episodes of The Prisoner himself, occasionally using the pseudonyms Joseph Serf and Paddy Fitz. He subsequently appeared in several Columbo episodes, twice wi

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,549x
The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,804x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,819x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,518x

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Quotes

“Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number.”
“The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. [...] And this is the one rebel that they can't break.”
“When they did finally see it, there was a near-riot and I was going to be lynched. And I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks, until things calmed down. That's really true!”

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Key facts

Born: Patrick Joseph McGoohan , ( 1928-03-19 ) March 19, 1928, New York City , New York , U.S.
Died: January 13, 2009 (2009-01-13) (aged 80), Santa Monica , California , U.S.
Other name: Paddy Fitz
Citizenship: Ireland United States
Occupations: Actor director screenwriter producer
Years active: 1948–2002
Spouse: Joan Drummond ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 )
Children: 3, including Catherine
Awards: BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor (1960) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (1975, 1990)

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date of birth: 1928-03-19
date of death: 2009-01-13
Commons category: Patrick McGoohan
start of work period: 1955-00-00

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Patrick Joseph McGoohan (/məˈɡuː.ən/; March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an Irish-American actor, director, producer, and writer of film, television, and theatre. Born in New York City to Irish parents, he was raised in Ireland and England. He began his career in Britain during the 1950s and became well known for the titular role of secret agent John Drake in the ITC espionage programme Danger Man (1960–68). He then created and produced the surrealistic ITV series The Prisoner (1967–68), in which he starred as former British intelligence agent Number Six.

Beginning in the 1970s, McGoohan maintained a long-running association with the television series Columbo, writing, directing, producing and appearing in several episodes. His notable film roles included David Jones in Ice Station Zebra (1968); James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray in Mary, Queen of Scots (1971); the Warden in Escape from Alcatraz (1979); Dr. Paul Ruth in Scanners (1981); King Edward I in Braveheart (1995); Judge Omar Noose in A Time to Kill (1996); and the voice of Billy Bones in Treasure Planet (2002).