US: 'Prisoner' actor Patrick McGoohan dies in US
By Andrew Dalton15 Jan 2009 4:13 AM
LOS ANGELES, Jan 14 AP - Patrick McGoohan, an Emmy-winning actor who created and starred in the cult classic television show The Prisoner, has died. He was 80.
McGoohan died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after a short illness, his son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, said Wednesday.
McGoohan was best known as the title character Six in The Prisoner, a surreal 1960s British series in which a former spy is held captive in a small village and constantly tries to escape.
He won two Emmys for his work on the Peter Falk detective drama Columbo, and more recently appeared as King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart.
