Another great one gone

The BBC reports the death of actor Patrick McGoohan, known for his role on The Prisoner and other things:

McGoohan played the character Six in the surreal 1960s show, filmed in the north Wales village of Portmeirion. He won two Emmy awards for his work on the television detective series Columbo, playing different characters. The first came for an episode of the series in 1974, another 16 years later. The screen star also won a Bafta award for best television actor in 1959 for his role in The Greatest Man In The World, a one-off drama in ITV's Armchair Theatre series. In more recent years, McGoohan played King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart. The actor, who was born in New York and raised in England and Ireland, came to screen prominence in the TV series Danger Man, in which he played a secret service agent. The programme later aired as Secret Agent in the US. He was later considered for the role of James Bond for the movie Dr. No. But McGoohan was chiefly associated with the cult ITV drama The Prisoner, writing some of the episodes himself under a different name. His character spent the entire time attempting to escape from The Village and finding out the identity of his captor, the elusive Number One. He repeatedly declared: "I am not a number. I am a free man!"
In 2000, McGoohan reprised his most famous role in an episode of The Simpsons. McGoohan's last role came in 2002, as a voice artist in the animated picture Treasure Planet.