In 1961 Dave Brubeck appeared in a few scenes of the British Jazz / Beat film All Night Long, which starred Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough.

He appeared twice with Patrick McGoohan in the British spy series, Danger Man, in episodes " Position of Trust " ( 1960 ) and " Find and Return " ( 1961 ).

Shortly thereafter Ngakane went into exile in the United Kingdom, where he appeared in Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 ) and in the television spy series Danger Man ( Deadline, 1962 ) with Patrick McGoohan.

Harry Twenty, for example, was an escape story set on a maximum-security prison orbiting the earth, and had clear echoes of The Prisoner TV series, starring Patrick McGoohan ( according to Finley-Day, he used to joke with his fellow creators that if McGoohan appeared at the reception of the IPC building, he was not to be let upstairs ).

She first appeared in an episode of the Patrick McGoohan series Danger Man entitled No Marks for Servility and went on to feature in many other ITC series in the 1960s and 70s including UFO, The Saint, Man in a Suitcase and The Persuaders !.

Sachs appeared in Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan.

As in neighbouring England, the Protestant faith has been embraced by many nobles of Scotland ; in addition, the Catholic Mary has to deal with her half-brother James Stewart, Lord Moray's ( Patrick McGoohan ) ambitions for rule.

The episode starred Patrick McGoohan in the character of Number Six and introduced perhaps the most popular of the many characters who would bear the title of " Number Two " in the series, that of Leo McKern.

The town has also served as a location for the films Alien 3 ( 1992 ), and the BAFTA nominated Life For Ruth ( 1962 ) starring Janet Munro and Patrick McGoohan.

While McGoohan, a Catholic, turned down the role on moral grounds, the success of the Bond films is generally cited as the reason for Danger Man being revived.

Swanwick's film career began in 1951 with bit parts in films such as The African Queen, and he became a recognisable face on British TV during the mid-1960s when he guest starred in a number of popular shows, including The Avengers and Danger Man where he first worked with later Prisoner star and co-creator, Patrick McGoohan.

McGoohan also stated that he was influenced by his experience from theater, including his work in Orson Welles ' 1955 play Moby Dick Rehearsed and the 1962 BBC teleplay The Prisoner by Bridget Boland.

It reviewed scenes from Danger Man and The Prisoner, incorporated interviews with cast members ( including McGoohan ) and fans, and addressed the political environment giving rise to the series and McGoohan's heavy workload.

She guested on various British television shows including the spy drama Danger Man starring Patrick McGoohan.

* TCM Remembers 2009: Edmund Purdom, Natasha Richardson, Jody McCrea, Ricardo Montalbán, Al Martino, director Robert Mulligan, director Howard Zieff, Pamela Blake, Farrah Fawcett, producer Larry Gelbart, producer Charles H. Schneer, Edward Woodward, Jennifer Jones, Sam Bottoms, Patrick Swayze, Olga San Juan, Paul Burke, screenwriter Horton Foote, Sydney Chaplin, Susanna Foster, director Ken Annakin, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, Beverly Roberts, Kathleen Byron, Dorothy Coonan, producer Daniel Melnick, Jane Bryan, Ron Silver, David Carradine, Richard Todd, Gale Storm, Pat Hingle, Eartha Kitt, Lou Jacobi, Bea Arthur, composer Maurice Jarre, Dom DeLuise, Henry Gibson, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, Claude Berri, writer Dominick Dunne, Betsy Blair, James Whitmore, Joseph Wiseman, Patrick McGoohan, director John Hughes and Karl Malden.

McGoohan had said that his first appearance on Columbo was probably his favourite American role.

In the episode of the 1968 television series The Prisoner entitled The General, Patrick McGoohan causes a supercomputer to explode by feeding it the question " Why?

The best-known use of the location occurred in 1966-1967 when McGoohan returned to Portmeirion to film exteriors for The Prisoner, a surreal spy drama in which Portmeirion itself played a starring role as " The Village ".

Scanners is a 1981 science-fiction action horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O ' Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan.

Patrick Joseph McGoohan ( March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009 ) was an American-born actor, brought up in Ireland and England, where he established an extensive stage and film career, with his most notable roles in the 1960s television series Danger Man ( renamed Secret Agent when exported to the US ), and The Prisoner, which he co-created.

McGoohan was listed as executive producer for the film, which never came to fruition.

* Patrick McGoohan, American-born actor of Irish parentage who rose to fame in the British film and TV industry: starring in the 1960s television series Danger Man and cult classic The Prisoner.

( Fairclough's account is, however, in contradiction to virtually all others, which state that McGoohan knew when he left for America to act in the Hollywood film, Ice Station Zebra, that there would be only four more episodes produced from that point, starting with " Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling " during his absence and ending with a finale ; indeed, most agree that this last happened because a scheduled production break was scrapped when two series of 13 episodes were reduced to one of seventeen due to ITC chief Lew Grade deciding that the actor / producer was taking too long and spending too much money.

* The Hard Way ( 1979 film ), made-for-TV film, starring Patrick McGoohan and Lee Van Cleef

All Night Long is a 1962 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Paul Harris, Keith Michell, Richard Attenborough and Betsy Blair.

In both accounts, McGoohan pitched the idea verbally, rather than having Grade read the proposal in detail, and the two made a verbal agreement for the show to be produced by Everyman Films, the production company formed by McGoohan and David Tomblin.

In the 1977 account, McGoohan said that Grade approved of the show despite not understanding it, while in the 1988 account Grade expressed clear support for the concept.

For example, Dave Rogers, in the book The Prisoner and Danger Man, said that Markstein claimed to have created the concept first and McGoohan later attempted to take credit for it, though Rogers himself doubted that McGoohan would have wanted or needed to do that.

Furthermore a 1960 episode of Danger Man, " View from the Villa ", had exteriors filmed in Portmeirion, a Welsh resort village that struck McGoohan as a good location for future projects.

In a 1966 interview for the Los Angeles Times by reporter Robert Musel, McGoohan stated that " John Drake of ' Secret Agent ' is gone.

McGoohan had originally only wanted to produce seven episodes of The Prisoner, but Grade argued that more shows were necessary in order for him to successfully sell the series to CBS.

* Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig-( U. K .)

George C. Scott, Anthony Hopkins and Patrick McGoohan were considered but not approached, and Gregory Peck lobbied for the role but gave up after Robert Mitchum was approached.

The Germans were particularly prolific, using ' John Drake ' and a picture of McGoohan, as the cover for hundreds of " krimi " magazines.

( The title for " McGoohan's Blues " was a reference to actor Patrick McGoohan, who had starred in the UK TV series The Prisoner two years earlier ).

McGoohan was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City, to Thomas McGoohan and Rose Fitzpatrick, who were living in the United States after emigrating from Ireland to look for work.

McGoohan was one of several actors considered for the role of James Bond in Dr. No ( along with future Bond actor Roger Moore ).

John Drake ” in the style of James Bond for the series, but while the Bond character was — and remains — quite the womanizer, McGoohan said his faith made him resist having his Drake character fall into the same lifestyle as Bond.

Before Danger Man was revived, McGoohan spent some time working for Disney on The Three Lives of Thomasina and The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.

After shooting the two episodes of Danger Man in colour, McGoohan told Lew Grade he was going to quit for another show.

After the series was over, one interviewer asked McGoohan if he would have liked the series to continue, to which he replied, " I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

Grade asked for a budget, McGoohan had one ready, and they made a deal over a handshake early on a Saturday morning to produce The Prisoner.