Patrick MacGoohan
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McGoohan in All Night Long (1962)
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| Born |
Patrick Joseph McGoohan 19 March 1928 Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 13 January 2009 (aged 80) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American, British, Irish |
| Alma mater | Ratcliffe College |
| Occupation | Actor, television writer, producer, director |
| Years active | 1955–2002 |
| Home town |
Mullaghmore, Carrigallen, County Leitrim, Ireland Sheffield, England |
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| Spouse(s) | Joan Drummond (m. 1951) |
| Children | 3, including Catherine McGoohan |
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Patrick Joseph McGoohan (19 March 1928 – 13 January 2009) was an American-born English-Irish actor, writer, and director who was brought up in Ireland and England. He began his career in Great Britain in the 1950s, and relocated to the United States in the 1970s. His career-defining roles were in the British 1960's television series Danger Man (US: Secret Agent) and the surreal psychological drama The Prisoner, which he co-created.
McGoohan was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City, the son of Rose (Fitzpatrick) and Thomas McGoohan, who were living in the United States after emigrating from Ireland to seek work. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic. Shortly after he was born, McGoohan's parents moved back to Mullaghmore, County Leitrim, Ireland, and seven years later, they moved to Sheffield, England.
McGoohan attended St Vincent's School and De La Salle College in Sheffield. During World War II, he was evacuated to Loughborough, Leicestershire. There he attended Ratcliffe College, where he excelled in mathematics and boxing. McGoohan left school at the age of 16 and returned to Sheffield, where he worked as a chicken farmer, a bank clerk, and a lorry driver before getting a job as a stage manager at Sheffield Repertory Theatre. When one of the actors became ill, McGoohan was substituted for him, launching his acting career.
In 1955, McGoohan starred in a West End production of a play called Serious Charge in the role of a priest accused of being homosexual.
Orson Welles was so impressed by McGoohan's stage presence ("intimidated," Welles would later say) that he cast him as Starbuck in his York theatre production of Moby Dick—Rehearsed. Welles said in 1969 that he believed McGoohan "would now be, I think, one of the big actors of our generation if TV hadn't grabbed him. He can still make it. He was tremendous as Starbuck." and "with all the required attributes, looks, intensity, unquestionable acting ability and a twinkle in his eye."
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