sfgate.com - 1/14/2009
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McGoohan died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a short illness, his son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, said. 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 ...
amctv.com - 1/16/2009
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latimes.com - 1/14/2009
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'Prisoner' actor Patrick McGoohan dies in LA
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... 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. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/0... Good actor. I was a little to young to ...
Patrick McGoohan, RIP
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The creator, star, and frequent writer and director of The Prisoner, that wonderful '60s pop-surrealist anarcho-paranoid science-fiction TV series, has died at age 80. Number Two: It doesn't matter which side runs the Village. Number Six: It's run by one side or the other. Number Two: Both sides are becoming identical. What in fact has been created? An international community. A perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they'll see that this is the pattern for the future. Number Six: The whole world as the Village? Number Two: That ...
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nytimes.com 1/14/2009 — Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV's ''Fantasy Island,'' died Wednesday morning at his home, his family said. He was 88.
Ricardo Montalban, Actor, Dies at 88
nytimes.com 1/14/2009 — Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV's ''Fantasy Island,'' died Wednesday morning at his home, his family said. He was 88.
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