Patrick McGoohan

Patrick Mcgoohan's biography

Patrick Mcgoohan is 81 years old television actor born at Astoria. He was born on Monday 19th of March 1928. He is often nicknamed as Pat. According to year of birth 1928 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 19th of March means he is Pisces. Pisces is a Watery Sign. They are very intuitive people. They are empathic, emotional and highly spiritual in nature.

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be television actor. You can know him also as film actor, screenwriter, stage actor, voice actor, actor, director, television director, television producer. He is recently known as film director.

Patrick Mcgoohan's family

He has 1 daughter.

Patrick Mcgoohan's daughter: Catherine McGoohan

Patrick Mcgoohan's daughter's name is Catherine McGoohan. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Saturday 31st of May 1952 in City of Westminster.

Patrick Mcgoohan's schools

We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: Ratcliffe College.

Patrick Mcgoohan's career

His main focus is to be television actor. You could see him also in Columbo.

How did Patrick Mcgoohan die

He died on on Tuesday 13th of January 2009 when he was 81 years old at Los Angeles. Patrick Mcgoohans death was caused by illness.

Awards and competitions

Patrick Mcgoohan's Awards

• Variety Club of Great Britain ITV personality Award for 1965 for Danger Man (1960).
• Is the only Columbo (1971) guest star to have won two Emmy Awards. In fact, these were the only times he was ever nominated for an Emmy.

What Patrick Mcgoohan has done for a first time

• His first show business job, at age 19, was as a stage hand/manager with the Sheffield Repertory Theatre. At 21, he was given his first lead role in one of their productions.

Patrick Mcgoohan's quotes

• On the fact that he is mostly known as his The Prisoner (1967) character, Number Six: "Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number."
• The more intense the work, the happier that I am.
• No one is a free man, unfortunately. No man is an island. But you've jolly well got to try, though. (laughs)
• Certainly I am self-conscious, trip over my own feet and so on. In company I tend to hide. Though I can get laughs onstage easily enough, I can never tell jokes in conversation.
• It is unforgivable not to know your lines. [Outside acting, however] I just react to circumstances. I have few constant habits there.
• If people in Hollywood want to get divorced, married, divorced, married, that's their business. Their problem. I have no problems like that.
• I enjoy working. I like being totally absorbed. I am scared of drifting, of having nothing to do.
• If my daughter were to take drugs, it would be my fault, not hers. I would not have given her the security or principles to live by, I would blame myself absolutely!
• Boredom and loneliness, damaging in any circumstances, become totally destructive to those who are insecure in their private lives.
• I've made many films, but most of them have been rubbish. I've rarely liked anything I've done, apart from my work as John Drake and two films I made for Walt Disney, Dr Syn and The Three Lives of Thomasina.
• I abhor violence and cheap sex. I believe in romance. Casual sex destroys romance. Besides, it is my view that a hero be a good man.
• I was shy, gangling and clumsy when I finished school.
• Why must our heroes die? Don't we want them? These men [the Kennedys and Martin Luther King] were heroes. They're dead - and there are no replacements.
• [on his first role] [An actor fell ill] so they shoved me on. [It felt good.] But nerve-wracking. Scary. I'm always scared. It's a scary world. You have to be nervous. I don't want to be placid about my work.
• She [Joan Drummond] was a glowing sunburnt-to-mahagony girl with black hair and dark eyes. I found her overwhelming and fascinating.
• My father did not take to the pace of New York. He farmed in Ireland, in country Leitrim, the poorest county in Ireland. Its only export is people. He made the farm go for eight years and they emigrated again, this time to England.
• Virility plus masculinity do not add up to promiscuity! In a fair fight Drake would beat Bond anytime.
• I've married my first wife and my last wife!
• I'm not a tough guy and I'm not a beast. I'm soft-hearted, gentle and understanding. I don't even beat my wife.
• We've seen just about everything. The only thing left is for someone to walk about and urinate through the screen. They'd say this is just life, a documentary on urination!
• I'm an insomniac. I sleep four hours maximum. I get up at 2:30 A.M. I read or write, and then I'm out of the house to walk on the beach. It's lonely then, just people with their dogs and some surfers. I walk, and talk to the dogs.
• I've sometimes been accused of being difficult and edgy and complicated, but only because I want the end product to be as perfect as possible.
• A man must create pressure in his working life; something to which he can respond, and must overcome.
• When an actor has a leading part, it is all the more necessary for him to be more disciplined.
• I certainly believe in a God, but I don't go around waving a flag about it.
• I have two guiding lights before me, every second of my working day. The first is my daughters. The second, my religion. You know, every hero since Jesus Christ has been moral... Like John Drake, he fought his battles fiercely but honourably.
• My father couldn't read or write, but he played the violin like an angel and he had total recall. We would read to him, he'd ask us what page we were on and days later he'd refer to the material on that page number.
• I abhor the word 'star'. It makes the hair on the back of my neck want to curl up.
• [on the then recently-enacted bill legalising homosexuality] Homosexuals are a fact of society. It was a progressive and very humane bill.
• [The Prisoner was inspired by] anyone who has ever been up against bureaucracy, in any form, or up against prejudices.
• Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
• My father had 10 shillings in one pocket and a change of collar in the other [when he and McGoohan's mother emigrated to the US].
• Doctors are important. But plumbers are even more important. And garbage collectors. If plumbers and garbage collectors go on strike, that's when we need doctors.
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Patrick Mcgoohan's body shape

Lets describe how Patrick Mcgoohan looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.