Patrick McGoohan
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Patrick Joseph McGoohan (19 March 1928 – January 9, 2009) was an Irish-American actor, screenwriter, and producer.
He began working in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, before moving to the United States in the 1970s.
Danger Man (US: Secret Agent) and The Prisoner, a forensic drama that he co-created, were two of his career highlights.
He received two Primetime Emmy Awards and a BAFTA during his career.
Early life
Patrick Joseph McGoohan was born in Astoria, New York City's Queens borough, on March 19, 1928, the son of Irish Catholic, immigrant parents Rose (née Fitzpatrick) and Thomas McGoohan. The family migrated to Ireland, where they lived in Carrigallen's Mullaghmore district just short of being born.
They migrated to England and settled in Sheffield seven years ago. McGoohan attended St Marie's School, St Vincent's School, and De La Salle College, all in Sheffield. He was evacuated to Loughborough, where he attended Ratcliffe College at the same time as future actor Ian Bannen during World War II. McGoohan excelled in mathematics and boxing, and left school at the age of 16, becoming a chicken farmer, bank clerk, and lorry driver before starting as a stage manager at Sheffield Repertory Theatre. McGoohan was on hand to support him as one of the actor's became ill, which launched his acting career.
Personal life
Joan Drummond, a 1951 graduate of McGoohan, married Joan Drummond. They had three children, including the eldest and fellow actress Catherine McGoohan.
They lived in a secluded detached house on The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London, for the majority of the 1960s. In the mid-1970s, they settled in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades district. Catherine became an actress later in life.
Career
McGoohan performed in Serious Charge, a West End stage production of Serious Charge, as a Church of England vicar accused of being homosexual.
Orson Welles was so impressed by McGoohan's stage appearance ("intimidated," Welles later claim) that he was cast as Starbuck in his York theatre production of Moby Dick that he directed—Rehearsed. Welles said in 1969 that he thinks McGoohan "would now be one of the top actors of our generation" if television hadn't grabbed him. He can still make it. "With all the right attributes, appearances, vigor, unequivocable leadership ability, and a twinkle in his eye," the singer said.
McGoohan's first television appearance was in "The Fall of Parnell," for You Are There (1954). He had an uncredited role in The Dam Busters (1955), a standing guard outside the briefing room. "Sorry, old boy, it's a mystery," he says; you can't go in.Now, c'mon, hop it!
"This was cut from any of the movie's prints."He appeared in Passage Home (1955), The Dark Avenger (1955), and I Am a Camera (1955). He may have been seen in Zarak (1956), also for Warwick Films. On television, he appeared in "Margin for Error" in Terminus (1955), and The Adventures of Aggie. In "The Makepeace Story" for BBC Sunday Night Theatre (1955), he appeared in "The Makepeace Story." He appeared in Moby Dick Rehearsed's film as well.
In 1956, Ring for Catty appeared on stage for the first time.
McGoohan was signed to a Rank Organisation while working as a stand-in during screen tests. They placed him in mainly villainous roles: High Tide at Noon (1957), a film directed by Philip Leacock; Hell Drivers (1957), directed by Cy Endfield; and The Gipsy and the Gentleman (1958), directed by Joseph Losey;
He had a good time on television in television series such as Television Playwright, Folio, Armchair Theatre, ITV Play of the Week, and the ITV Playhouse. He was given a leading role in Nor the Moon by Night (1958), a South African film shot. The employment was terminated after a series of problems with the company's leadership. He did some television work before winning a BAFTA in 1960.
The lead in Ibsen's Brand was his favorite part of the performance, for which he was given an award. In August 1959, he appeared in a (still extant) BBC television show. McGoohan's appearance was the best and most powerful he's ever seen, according to Michael Meyer, who narrated the stage version. It was McGoohan's last stage appearance in 28 years.
Lew Grade, a production executive, quickly approached McGoohan about a television series in which he would play a spy named John Drake. McGoohan maintained that all the fistfights should be different; the character will always use his brain before using a pistol; and—much to the executives' horror—no kissing. Danger Man, a half-hour program aimed at American audiences, premiered in 1960. It did well, but not as well as expected.
A year and 39 episodes of production were released. An interviewer asked McGoohan if he would have liked it to continue after the first series was over. "Perhaps," he replied, "I suppose so but let me tell you this: I'd rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago, and for which I blame no one but myself."
McGoohan appeared in Two Lives, One Dead (1961), a Swedish film. Basil Dearden's two films directed by him: All Night Long, an update of Othello, and Life for Ruth (both 1962). Brendan Behan's adaptation of The Quare Fellow (1962) appeared in his film "The Quare Fellow (1962).
McGoohan was one of many actors considered for the role of James Bond in Dr. No. 1. Although McGoohan, a Catholic, refused to appear in the role on moral grounds, the Bond films' popularity has often been cited as the reason for Danger Man's revival. (He was originally intended for the same role in Live and Let Die, but it was later turned down).
McGoohan spent some time on Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963) and Romney Marsh's Scarecrow (1963). By night, an English vivacious Dr. Syn (Patrick McGoohan) is a terror on horseback to thwart King George III's taxmen.
Lew Grade, who had already turned down Simon Templar's role in The Saint, begged McGoohan to try John Drake again. McGoohan had even more to say about the series this time. Danger Man (US: Secret Agent) was revived in 1964 as a one-hour program. McGoohan now had more freedom in his acting. He became the country's highest-paid actor thanks to the show's success, and it lasted almost three years.
McGoohan told Lew Grade that he was going to leave for another film after shooting the only two episodes of Danger Man to be shot in color.
Grade wondered if he would at least work on "something" for him in reaction to McGoohan's decision to leave Danger Man. McGoohan gave him a rundown of what would be called a miniseries about a shadow agent who resigns suddenly and awakenes to find himself in a jail disguised as a holiday resort. McGoohan had a budget, McGoohan had one ready, and the two made a deal early Saturday morning over a handshake to produce The Prisoner.
McGoohan wrote and directed several episodes in addition to being the series's actor and establishing Everyman Films with producer David Tomblin. When the first seven episodes were released, there were now seventeen.
The title character, "The Village," is the entire series in which the protagonist, "The Village," is trying to flee from a largely unidentified prison system and discovers Number One's identity. The Village's leaders are trying to compel or coerce him into admitting he resigned as a spy, something he refuses to reveal. The filming location was Portmeirion, an Italianate village in North Wales that had been featured in a few episodes of Danger Man.
MGM cast McGoohan in a British spy film Ice Station Zebra (1968), for which his role as a tightly wound British spy earned critical acclaim.
He hosted Journey into Darkness (1968–69), a television show following the conclusion of The Prisoner. He was supposed to complete it with the actor role of Dirk Struan in an expensive tribute to James Clavell's Tai-Pan, but the shoot was cancelled before filming was completed. Rather, he served MGM in the Moonshine War (1970).
In Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), McGoohan played James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray. Richie Havens was directing a rock-opera version of Othello (1974), but he reacted angrily to the film.
McGoohan and his longtime buddy Peter Falk were given two Emmy Awards for their work on Columbo. McGoohan said that his first appearance on Columbo ("By Dawn's Early Light") was probably his first American role. He produced five Columbo episodes, three of which he appeared, three of which he wrote and three of which he produced), one of which he also wrote and two of which he produced. McGoohan appeared on Columbo from 1974 to 2000, and his daughter Catherine McGoohan appeared with him in his last episode, "Ashes to Ashes" (1998). "Identity Crisis" (1975) and "Agenda For Murder" (1990) were two of Columbo's other two episodes in which he appeared.
McGoohan, a founder of the Rank Organisation, began to specialize in villains, appearing in A Genius, Two Partners, and a Dupe (1977).
He appeared in the television series Rafferty as a retired army doctor who moves to private practice in 1977.
He was in charge of a Canadian film called Kings and Desperate Men (1978) and then appeared in Brass Target (1978) and the Clint Eastwood film Escape from Alcatraz (1979), portraying the prison's warden.
He appeared in The Hard Way, a British television film from 1980 to 1980.
He appeared in the science fiction/horror film Scanners in 1981, as well as in Jamaica Inn (1983) and Trespass (1984).
He appeared on Broadway for his first appearance in 1985, playing Rosemary Harris opposite Rosemary Harris in Hugh Whitemore's Pack of Lies, in which he appeared as another British spy. He was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for his role.
She Wrote that he could be seen on film in Baby: The Lost Legend (1985), Of Pure Blood (1986), and an episode of Murder.
McGoohan appeared in The Best of Friends (1991), which told the tale of an unexpected friendship between a museum curator, a scholar, and a playwright. As Sister Laurentia McLachlan and Sir John Gielburn, McGoohan played George Bernard Shaw alongside Sir John Gield. PBS' drama was seen in the United States as part of Masterpiece Theatre.
In the era of King Edward I (1995), which received five Academy Awards, he appeared as King Edward I. Judge Omar Noose appeared in A Time to Kill (1996) and The Phantom (also 1996), a cinema adaptation of McGoohan's career, and it seemed to revitalize McGoohan's career.
In 2000, he reprised his role as Number Six in "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" episode of The Simpsons. Homer Simpson concocts a news story in order to make his website more popular, and he awakens a prison disguised as a holiday resort. He is dubbed Number Five by Number Five, who betrays him and flees with his boat later on; quoting his numerous attempts to escape on a raft in Number Five, Number Six screams "This is the third time that's happened."
McGoohan's last film role was as Billy Bones' voice in the animated film Treasure Planet, which was released in 2002. He received the Proheus Hall of Fame Award for The Prisoner the year before.
McGoohan's name was linked to several failed attempts to produce a new film version of The Prisoner. Simon West was hired in 2002 to produce a version of the tale. McGoohan was listed as the executive producer for the film, but it never came to fruition. Christopher Nolan was later on confirmed as the film director for a film version. However, the source material was still difficult and elusive to adapt into a feature film. McGoohan was not involved in the project that was eventually completed. In late 2008, a reimagining of the series was shot for the AMC network, with its broadcast taking place during November 2009.
Awards
- 1960: BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor – Won
- 1975: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (for Columbo: By Dawn's Early Light) – Won
- 1990: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (for Columbo: Agenda for Murder) – Won