Patrick McGoohan
Birthday: 1928-03-19
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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 and Paddy Fitz. He subsequently appeared in several Columbo episodes, winning the Emmy twice, David Cronenberg's Scanners, and in Mel Gibson's Braveheart as King Edward I.
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Braveheart
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...
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Escape from Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...
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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Ind...
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Silver Streak
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murder...
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Jamaica Inn
The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pira...
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Treasure Planet
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand wor...
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Scanners
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by age...
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The Phantom
The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a...
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen....
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All Night Long
Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic par...
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The Three Lives of Thomasina
Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When T...
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Hell Drivers
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money....
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catho...
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Ice Station Zebra
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes i...
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The Man Out There
A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes...
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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to prote...
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Brass Target
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he...
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Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget t...
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The Moonshine War
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sig...
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Brand
Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will ...
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The Hard Way
John Connor is a soon-to-retire hitman that agrees to take on one last job. After years plying his d...
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High Tide at Noon
After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, stru...
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The Gypsy and the Gentleman
A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money....
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The Quare Fellow
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, d...
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Two Living, One Dead
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the superviso...
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The Best of Friends
Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique 25-year friendship shared...
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Hysteria
Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the psy...
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Passage Home
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A youn...
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The Greatest Man in the World
Just after a young unknown American becomes the first on the Moon returns, he dies in an accident. H...
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A Time to Kill
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
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Trespasses
A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes...
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The Dam Busters
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...
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The Prisoner Video Companion
British cult classic The Prisoner has been hailed as the most bizarre, mind-boggling television seri...
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Kings and Desperate Men
A group of terrorists take a radio disk jockey and his wife and child hostage in order to get their ...
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Life for Ruth
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His ...
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Journey Into Darkness
"Journey Into Darkness" is a television movie which consists of two episodes from the UK TV series "...
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Sad?
Set in the mid sixties and shot with more black than white, ‘SAD?’ is a dark ten minute film that ex...
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Nor the Moon by Night
When Alice Lang flies out to Kenya to marry gamekeeper Andrew Miller she is met by his brother Rusty...
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Zarak Khan
A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him....
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Koroshi
Secret agent John Drake (aka Danger Man) goes to Japan to infiltrate a secret society that specialis...
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The Laughing Prisoner
A funny remake of "The Prisoner" - with a 1980's twist to it 'The Laughing Prisoner' is a remake (or...
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Of Pure Blood
A mother investigating her son's mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for. Casting di...
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In My Mind
The film recounts one of Chris' early filmmaking experiences: an attempt to interview Patrick McGooh...
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I Am a Camera
Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets fla...
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In Search of the Prisoner
Sci-Fi Channel production is first shown in 2001, this documentary preceded the channel's premiere o...
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "wi...
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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly...
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The Making of the Prisoner
The story of the making of cult television favorite 'The Prisoner' is told by the people who were th...
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Six Into One: The Prisoner File
After Channel 4 screened the finale of their 1984 repeats of The Prisoner, they broadcast this speci...
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The Dark Avenger
Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English arm...
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