Patrick McGoohan, R.I.P.

He scowled and appeared to be stewin'
The scenery often he's chewin'
Eschewin' cliché
and all things risque
was thespian Patrick McGoohan

Surly



Village of the Scammed

Number 6, played by Patrick McGoohan

tried to nix what The Village was doin'

So plans he unfurled

to flee from a world

predicted by Marshall McLuhan

Backthrow



Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009)

McGoohan was that rare breed: a man first and an actor second.
From Wikipedia: McGoohan insisted on several conditions in his
contract before agreeing to do the show Danger Man: all the fist-
fights should be different, the character would always use his brain
before using a gun, and, much to the horror of the executives, no
kissing. They hired him anyway.

McGoohan then conceived The Prisoner. Again from Wikipedia:
McGoohan not only produced, he also wrote, directed and starred
in the show. The Prisoner was a completely new, cerebral kind of
series, stretching the limits of the established television formulas.