He does have that look to himself whenever you see him past say 1965. He played a great bad guy in Braveheart and was also great in the Columbo TV show. If this and the other interviews on youtube of him are the worse he had I'm still a big fan, he is awesome! At least up to the Prisoner and then it was mostly bad people (Scanners, Braveheart, Columbo, etc). I'm such a fan of Mr McGoohan that I am a fan of the Phantom because he is in it! Be seeing you!
Patrick McGoogan. The man, the lengend. When folks did the Prisoner remake on TV, they went to McGoohan for advise. He told them not to bother making it. They did anyway. It didn't turn out. They should've listened to the guy. They had the potential to make a sequel using McGoohan in a possible cameo. They didn't. The original series still holds as a groundbreaking series of innovative ideas and political intrigue. Long live Number Six.
VERY SELDOM is a "remake" as good as an original and, "The Prisoner" is no exception. Patrick McGoohan was the creative and driving force behind "The Prisoner." He turned out a MASTERPIECE. In 1967, the show coined the phrase "Be seeing you." Now, today, surveillance cameras are everywhere - satellites, in major cities, even drones flying overhead. Number 6 and the residents of "The Village" were monitored 24/7. The "mind games" Number 2 and his - or her - bosses tried on Number 6 were failures. They did not break him. The INDIVIDUAL remained intact.
I am glad that Patrick McGoohan turned down playing James Bond, it was well beneath him. But if he had, it would be his performance that all other Bonds would be compared to, not Connery. He would have made a great Bond villain though
The Prisoner is one of the finest made science ficttion attempts on television from Britian apart from the Doctor Who series. McGoohan was a top notch actor.
Gay Search went on to be very well known for regular appearances on BBC's flagship gardening show 'Gardener's World', as well as a few series of her own.. I was gobsmacked to see her here.
Only he could make America turn up to the reading of an envelope ;-)).....well done to the interviewer for being quick-footed enough to follow the interviewee !!
The greatest actor never to have played Bond -- though he turned it down 3 times. Patrick McGoohan lives on and is one of those actors awesome enough to do what he damn well likes, or in the words of Carly Simon -- 'Nobody does it better.' As for the name ' Gay Search, get over it (okay-I have to admit that at first I thought it was a link to a later subject in the programme running along the bottom of the screen...I am human too you know) In memory of the greatest tv series ever made - B C N U.
He was offered Bond on three or four times but Patrick McGowen turned it down as Bond is with a different woman all the time and McGowen been a strict Roman Catholic did not agree with the idea also he turned down The Saint because of the womanising image of The Saint so Sir Roger Moore got the role
Hear Hear, I second that Sir, best wishes, you are an eccentric kind of man in reflection, but one that made the village a lot more tolerable! Be Seeing you, again Sir.....
Great actor and the only person to play the killer on Columbo an unprecedented 4 times. He became good friends with Peter Falk and also would up directing at least one episode of Columbo.
hehe...there were two people in the Film/TV industry who were strong embassadors of the British English language (and 'neutral' accent): David Niven and Patrick McGoohan.
@eonetim. Quatermass films were brilliant influence in the alien invasion from space format. Torchwood series has good, mature material with a charismastic actor Barrowman. Life On Mars is a brilliant time travel story that is left open ended and Eleventh Hour is an excellent series with Patrick Stewart involving conspiracies. All of them offer an excellent outlet for British S-F. Though I did enjoy the first year of Primeveal before they killed off the main character. Still... some good stuff.
Patrick McGoohan & Michael Caine, could well have been brothers. Pity they never played on screen together. Albeit, when Michael passes, they'll somehow be bound to. ,,
U obviously weren't around in the 80's, morning TV was very slow paced, for good reason, MOST PEOPLE WATCHING THIS would have been stay at home moms or old people or maybe kids. I doubt you tape GMA either. Most people now only watch the news and go out the door to their job. But I do admit the play part was to long, I figure that's because they figured he wouldn't talk about the Prisoner.
@eonetim. I do prefer Doctor Who to Star Trek. As proper science fiction goes, no one in their right minds would send 500 people in a ship into space as in ST. They would prefer sending a probe first. Ask any astronomer or astronaut this. Doctor Who is a science fantasy which isn't constrained by rules or laws of S-F and as a freer format to enjoy their stories. I do like the original Trek series the best for being groundbreaking stuff. The Prisoner series is equally ingenuis in ideas.
I cannot thank you enough for uploading this!!!!! More Patrick, please!!!!!
McGhoohan is a legend! ...BE SEEING YOU!
What a great voice he had.
R.I.P. Patrick McGoohan. He will be sorely missed. :(
He does have that look to himself whenever you see him past say 1965. He played a great bad guy in Braveheart and was also great in the Columbo TV show. If this and the other interviews on youtube of him are the worse he had I'm still a big fan, he is awesome! At least up to the Prisoner and then it was mostly bad people (Scanners, Braveheart, Columbo, etc). I'm such a fan of Mr McGoohan that I am a fan of the Phantom because he is in it! Be seeing you!
Patrick McGoogan. The man, the lengend. When folks did the Prisoner remake on TV, they went to McGoohan for advise. He told them not to bother making it. They did anyway. It didn't turn out. They should've listened to the guy.
They had the potential to make a sequel using McGoohan in a possible cameo. They didn't.
The original series still holds as a groundbreaking series of innovative ideas and political intrigue. Long live Number Six.
VERY SELDOM is a "remake" as good as an original and, "The Prisoner" is no exception.
Patrick McGoohan was the creative and driving force behind "The Prisoner."
He turned out a MASTERPIECE.
In 1967, the show coined the phrase "Be seeing you."
Now, today, surveillance cameras are everywhere - satellites, in major cities, even drones flying overhead.
Number 6 and the residents of "The Village" were monitored 24/7.
The "mind games" Number 2 and his - or her - bosses tried on Number 6 were failures.
They did not break him.
The INDIVIDUAL remained intact.
So glad he died of cancer.
Mark Harrison you're a twisted piece of shit.
I am glad that Patrick McGoohan turned down playing James Bond, it was well beneath him. But if he had, it would be his performance that all other Bonds would be compared to, not Connery. He would have made a great Bond villain though
I'm watching The Prisoner right now. Top show with highly relevant themes about identity and authority. Nice one, Pat.
Where can we stream it? Wait did you have streaming 10 years ago? Lol
The Prisoner is one of the finest made science ficttion attempts on television from Britian apart from the Doctor Who series. McGoohan was a top notch actor.
Gay Search went on to be very well known for regular appearances on BBC's flagship gardening show 'Gardener's World', as well as a few series of her own.. I was gobsmacked to see her here.
Be seeing you Patrick. We'll miss you.
Wow; great to see McGoohan and Pauley, as well as the stage play and a reference to MI-5.
Only he could make America turn up to the reading of an envelope ;-)).....well done to the interviewer for being quick-footed enough to follow the interviewee !!
Very interesting- thank you for posting
RIP McGoohan what a personality and actor he was just tragic
The greatest actor never to have played Bond -- though he turned it down 3 times. Patrick McGoohan lives on and is one of those actors awesome enough to do what he damn well likes, or in the words of Carly Simon -- 'Nobody does it better.' As for the name ' Gay Search, get over it (okay-I have to admit that at first I thought it was a link to a later subject in the programme running along the bottom of the screen...I am human too you know) In memory of the greatest tv series ever made - B C N U.
He was offered Bond on three or four times but Patrick McGowen turned it down as Bond is with a different woman all the time and McGowen been a strict Roman Catholic did not agree with the idea also he turned down The Saint because of the womanising image of The Saint so Sir Roger Moore got the role
Phenomenal Actor!’ RIP!
Hear Hear, I second that Sir, best wishes, you are an eccentric kind of man in reflection, but one that made the village a lot more tolerable!
Be Seeing you, again Sir.....
Patrick is awesome! Love that voice of his. The interviewer was a fox btw!
Pat, here's wishing u a happy and healthy new eightieth year.Love from Robin and Elaine from England."be seeing you"
Great actor and the only person to play the killer on Columbo an unprecedented 4 times. He became good friends with Peter Falk and also would up directing at least one episode of Columbo.
Longshanks.
McGoohan... doing a TV interview?? I guess it fell under his "15 minute" rule...
That voice ---- as I noted before - like M E L T I N G C A R A M E L S.
hehe...there were two people in the Film/TV industry who were strong embassadors of the British English language (and 'neutral' accent): David Niven and Patrick McGoohan.
Nobody mentioned this has the only footage of McGoohan's Broadway performance!
The NY Public Library has a 22 minute video excerpt from Pack of Lies. I don't know if Patrick McGoohan appears in this excerpt.
actually a remake will be brodcasted in 2009. i hope it will be good, i hope the remake will keep the main ideas and wil honor patrick. RIP MASTER
@eonetim. Quatermass films were brilliant influence in the alien invasion from space format. Torchwood series has good, mature material with a charismastic actor Barrowman. Life On Mars is a brilliant time travel story that is left open ended and Eleventh Hour is an excellent series with Patrick Stewart involving conspiracies. All of them offer an excellent outlet for British S-F. Though I did enjoy the first year of Primeveal before they killed off the main character. Still... some good stuff.
Who Is Number One..YOU ARE Number Six
The story of the Kreuger spy ring.
He has the thickest English accent
IRISH!
@@Jacksbox11 a combination of English and Irish. He moved from Ireland when he was 7 to England.
Patrick McGoohan & Michael Caine, could well have been brothers.
Pity they never played on screen together. Albeit, when Michael passes, they'll somehow be bound to. ,,
@jeroid I remember it well! Be seeing you... (Steve Matt) and 'The Jailbird'!
Eccentric comes to mind.
I bet that was a hell of a script to have to learn verbatim.
RAGE, RAGE, RAGE against the dying of the light...
he takes the roles
How's that then? Was that in Oxford?
U obviously weren't around in the 80's, morning TV was very slow paced, for good reason, MOST PEOPLE WATCHING THIS would have been stay at home moms or old people or maybe kids. I doubt you tape GMA either. Most people now only watch the news and go out the door to their job. But I do admit the play part was to long, I figure that's because they figured he wouldn't talk about the Prisoner.
'Gay Search' -- lol, what happens when you find one?
David Niven was a little more grounded me thinks.
Jane Pauley was sooooooo cute....
Yes. I thought so too.
@eonetim. I do prefer Doctor Who to Star Trek.
As proper science fiction goes, no one in their right minds would send 500 people in a ship into space as in ST. They would prefer sending a probe first. Ask any astronomer or astronaut this.
Doctor Who is a science fantasy which isn't constrained by rules or laws of S-F and as a freer format to enjoy their stories. I do like the original Trek series the best for being groundbreaking stuff. The Prisoner series is equally ingenuis in ideas.
Its a british name dufussnout. People have different names in different parts of the world get used to it.
STOP! JUST STOP!
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SERIOUSLY, JUST STOP IT! }:(
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STOP IT RIGHT NOW! }:(
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