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'Braveheart' Actor Patrick McGoohan Dies

January 14th, 2009 12:28pm EST  Post a comment    Add to My News

Patrick McGoohan LOS ANGELES (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 Tuesday in Los Angeles after a short illness, his son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, said Wednesday.

McGoohan 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." But he was best known as the title character Number 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.

Patrick McGoohan as Longshanks in Braveheart

By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press Writer

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