Wednesday, January 14, 2009

RIP

Patrick McGoohan has died. He was one of my favorite actors and I am a huge fan of his 1960s show, "The Prisoner." I also liked "Secret Agent," episodes which I get from Netflix. He became a star on TV but McGoohan worked a lot in film. He was great as Longshanks in "Braveheart." One of his odder roles is as a rogue G-Man in the 1970-adaption of Elmore Leonard's "The Moonshine War." McGoohan was also in "Scanners." the movie that (arguably) launched David Cronenberg into the mainstream.
Hollywood didn't use McGoohan enough, but he was always fun when they did. Check out his career at IMDB.

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