Patrick McGoohan

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 · Last.fm

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

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 84,951x

2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,186x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,879x

4. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

   · 2009 · cited 18,980x

5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,617x

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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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