Most Recent Role: on Columbo
Alias Name(s): Paddy Fitz, Joseph Serf
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Astoria, New York, USA
Birthday: 3-19-1928
Birth Name: Patrick Joseph McGoohan
Alias Name(s): Paddy Fitz, Joseph Serf
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Astoria, New York, USA
Birthday: 3-19-1928
Birth Name: Patrick Joseph McGoohan
Popular American-born Irish actor Patrick McGoohan was born in New York City, the Astoria district on Long Island on March 19, 1928.
His parents had immigrated to the united States and, within a few months after his birth, decided to return to Ireland. They settled in County Leitrim, and by all accounts his early childhood was a financially impoverished one on a family farm that produced...
Most Recent Appearance
Murder with Too Many Notes
Monday 12 March 2001 on NBC
Findlay Crawford, the awardwinning composer of movie soundtracks, has a very talented apprentice, Gabriel, who wants to leave Crawford´s shadow and get recognition for the music he has written but which Crawford took credit for. This Crawford won´t allow, and he drugs him, and uses his musical...
- external: The joy of 6: A first look at the return of 'The Prisoner' 2007-01-02
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His granddaughter, Sarah, was born in 1979.
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He played two British secret agents whose true names were never revealed: Number Six in The Prisoner and David Jones in Ice Station Zebra.
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Two of the actors who played his murder victims in Columbo also appeared in The Golden Girls: Rue McClanahan played Blanche Devereaux in every episode of the series while Leslie Nielsen played Lucas Hollingsworth in the finale "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1)" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2)".
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Patrick McGoohan: "Freedom is a myth."
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Some people believe that his Danger Man character, John Drake, and his The Prisoner character, Number Six, are intended to the same person. The fact that Christopher Benjamin played the same character, Potter, in both the Danger Man episode "Koroshi" and The Prisoner episode "The Girl Who Was Death" lends credence to this belief.
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Patrick McGoohan: "Marriage is a wonderful thing. It is more important to like the person you marry than it is to love them."
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Other Appearances
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Danger Man
John Drake |
Rafferty
Sid Rafferty M.D. |
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The Prisoner
Number Six |
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Assignment Foreign Legion
The Coward Capt. Valadon |
Columbo
Agenda for Murder Oscar Finch |
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Columbo
Ashes to Ashes Eric Prince |
Columbo
Identity Crisis Nelson Brenner |
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Columbo
By Dawn´s Early Light Col. Lyle C. Rumford |
Disneyland
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (1) Dr. Christopher Syn/The Scarecrow |
| Writer | |
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Columbo
Murder with Too Many Notes |
Columbo
Ashes to Ashes |
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The Prisoner
Fall Out |
The Prisoner
Free for All |
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The Prisoner
Once Upon A Time |
| Director | |
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Columbo
Murder with Too Many Notes |
Columbo
Identity Crisis |
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Columbo
Last Salute to the Commodore |
Columbo
Agenda for Murder |
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Columbo
Ashes to Ashes |
Danger Man
The Paper Chase |
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The Prisoner
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling Executive Producer |
The Prisoner
A Change of Mind Executive Producer |
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The Prisoner
It's Your Funeral Executive Producer |
The Prisoner
Living in Harmony Executive Producer |
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The Prisoner
The Girl Who Was Death Executive Producer |
The Prisoner
Fall Out Executive Producer |
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Danger Man
The Danger Man is back! One of the most popular characters ever introduced to television screens, the original Danger Man swept the world, bringing international fame to the talented and... more Rafferty
Patrick McGoohan ("Secret Agent", "The Prisoner") returned to series television with "Rafferty", after two memorable guest star performances on "Columbo". McGoohan played a retired army doctor who... more The Prisoner
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The Danger Man is back! One of the most popular characters ever introduced to television screens, the original Danger Man swept the world, bringing international fame to the talented and... more Rafferty
Patrick McGoohan ("Secret Agent", "The Prisoner") returned to series television with "Rafferty", after two memorable guest star performances on "Columbo". McGoohan played a retired army doctor who... more The Prisoner
'The Prisoner' is about a man who is kidnapped from his London home, and wakes up in a strange Village, where he is known only by the name Number Six. Various Village Officers-in-Charge,... more

