Patrick McGoohan Net Worth
Patrick McGoohan Net Worth is
$800,000
Patrick McGoohan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (19 March 1928 – 13 January 2009) was an American-born actor who was brought up in Ireland and Britain, where he established an extensive stage and film career. His most notable roles were in the 1960s television series Danger Man (renamed Secret Agent when exported to the US), and The Prisoner, which he co-created. McGoohan wrote and directed several episodes of The Prisoner himself, occasionally using the pseudonyms Joseph Serf and Paddy Fitz. Later in his career, he moved back to the United States and subsequently appeared as murderers in four Columbo episodes, twice winning an Emmy. He was featured in John Sturges's Ice Station Zebra (1968), David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981), and played King Edward "The Longshanks" in Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995). | Date Of Birth | March 19, 1928, Astoria, New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | January 13, 2009, Santa Monica, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA |
| Height | 6' 1½" (1.87 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Producer, Director |
| Spouse | Joan Drummond McGoohan (m. 1951–2009) |
| Children | Catherine McGoohan, Anne McGoohan, Frances McGoohan |
| Star Sign | Pisces |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | "Be seeing you", his catchphrase from The Prisoner (1967). |
| 2 | Gravelly smoke burnished voice |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on Rafferty (1977)] a disaster ... the most miserable job I've ever done in my life ... a total frustration from start to finish ... The scripts [were] monstrous pieces of garbage, [with] no time to rewrite them ... There were too many people in charge and all passing the buck. I counted them. There were 11 people who thought that they were the 'creators' of this load of garbage. But you couldn't find one to take responsibility [when it failed]. |
| 2 | 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." |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | In one scene in Ice Station Zebra he was supposed to dive into the flooded torpedo room of the nuclear sub to rescue a trapped naval officer. Being a strong swimmer he insisted on doing the scene himself rather than use a stuntman. A change was made to the script so allowing Olympic swimming champion Murray Rose, who'd been cast in another role, to do the scene with him in case anything happened. It was only after the scene was completed that Murray revealed that while he and Pat were standing up to their necks in the rising water just before the cameras rolled Pat had whispered to him "Now I've done it, my foot's stuck". Murray dived down and freed his foot which had become wedged tight in the torpedo rack. |
| 2 | Along with Jack Cassidy, Robert Culp, William Shatner and George Hamilton, he is one of only five actors to play two or more murderers in Columbo (1971): Colonel Lyle C. Rumford in Columbo: By Dawn's Early Light (1974), Nelson Brenner in Columbo: Identity Crisis (1975) and Columbo: Agenda for Murder (1990) and Columbo: Ashes to Ashes (1998). |
| 3 | Was reportedly so devoted to his wife, he often refused to kiss or perform love scenes with other women in films. |
| 4 | Is the only Columbo (1971) guest star to have won two Emmy Awards. |
| 5 | He was considered for the role of James Bond in Dr. No (1962) before his Hell Drivers (1957) co-star Sean Connery was cast. |
| 6 | Involved in preproduction work of the Hollywood remake of his hit The Prisoner (1967). [1996] |
| 7 | Retired from the movie business. [2002] |
| 8 | Variety Club of Great Britain ITV personality Award for 1965 for Danger Man. |
| 9 | Irish-American. |
| 10 | He died at Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, after a brief illness. His remains were cremated. |
| 11 | Owned the rights to an audioclip that metal band Iron Maiden wanted to use in their song "The Prisoner" (1982). He gave them the permission to use it in a telephone conversation with their manager. |
| 12 | Retired from acting after his fourth appearance in "Columbo" in 1998, returning only to provide voice-over work in Treasure Planet (2002). |
| 13 | Was a reclusive celebrity, hardly ever giving interviews. |
| 14 | While working as part of Sheffield Repertory, he quickly became one of its leading actors, appearing in more than 200 plays over the following four years. Further repertory work took him to Coventry and Bristol. |
| 15 | On The Prisoner (1967), McGoohan also contributed to the writing and directing of the series. |
| 16 | In 1948 he worked as a a stage manager at the Sheffield Repertory. |
| 17 | He made his mark in gritty films like Hell Drivers (1957), which gave him his bad boy persona on screen. |
| 18 | Orson Welles was so impressed by his performance in the 1955 West End play "Serious Charge" that he cast him as Starbuck in his production of "Moby Dick Rehearsed". |
| 19 | Along with William Shatner, Robert Culp, Jack Cassidy and George Hamilton, he is one of only five actors to play two or more unrelated murderers in episodes of "Columbo". He played four in total, more than anyone else - specifically Colonel Lyle C. Rumford in Columbo: By Dawn's Early Light (1974), Nelson Brenner in Columbo: Identity Crisis (1975), Oscar Finch in Columbo: Agenda for Murder (1990) and Eric Prince in Columbo: Ashes to Ashes (1998). He also directed all but the first of these. |
| 20 | On June 11, 2008, he became a great-grandfather to Jack Patrick Lockhart. |
| 21 | He has five grandchildren, Sarah, Erin, Simon, Nina and Paddy. |
| 22 | As a youth he lived in the rural parish of Drumreilly in county Leitrim, Ireland. Although the house is still there, it is unlived in and in a bad state of repair. |
| 23 | For The Prisoner (1967), he sometimes used "Joseph Serf" for directing credits and "Paddy Fitz" for writing credits. "Paddy" being a nickname for "Patrick" while "Fitz" was derived from his mother's maiden name, Fitzpatrick. |
| 24 | 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. |
| 25 | The son of an Irish-born farmer, he left school at 16 to work in a rope factory. He subsequently worked on a chicken farm but had to seek other employment because of an allergy to chicken feathers. |
| 26 | Grew up partly in and around Sheffield, England. |
| 27 | In his youth, considered becoming a Catholic priest. |
| 28 | Liked to drink Irish whiskey at 217 bar in Santa Monica, owned by burlesque great Betty Rowland. |
| 29 | His granddaughter Sarah was born in 1976. |
| 30 | Appeared in four different productions with Aubrey Morris: The Quare Fellow (1962), Secret Agent (1964) (three episodes), The Prisoner (1967), and Columbo: Ashes to Ashes (1998). |
| 31 | Was the honourary president of Six of One, the official appreciation society for The Prisoner (1967), from its foundation in 1977 until his death in 2009. |
| 32 | His parents' names were Thomas McGoohan and Rose Fitzpatrick McGoohan. |
| 33 | Has worked with two actors with a glass eye: Leo McKern in The Prisoner (1967) episodes "The Chimes of Big Ben", "Once Upon A Time" and "Fall Out" and Peter Falk in Columbo: By Dawn's Early Light (1974), Columbo: Identity Crisis (1975), Columbo: Last Salute to the Commodore (1976), Columbo: Agenda for Murder (1990), Columbo: Ashes to Ashes (1998), and Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes (2000). |
| 34 | Turned down two roles that eventually went to Roger Moore: Simon Templar in The Saint (1962) and James Bond in Live and Let Die (1973). |
| 35 | Played four different murderers in four different episodes of "Columbo": Columbo: By Dawn's Early Light (1974), Columbo: Identity Crisis (1975), Columbo: Agenda for Murder (1990), and Columbo: Ashes to Ashes (1998). He also directed all of them except the first, as well as Columbo: Last Salute to the Commodore (1976) and Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes (2000). |
| 36 | Reprised his The Prisoner (1967) character (Number Six) in The Simpsons (1989) episode "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes." |
| 37 | Two of his most famous characters, Number Six in The Prisoner (1967) and the Warden in Escape from Alcatraz (1979), were not given names. |
| 38 | Was the title character of all four series in which he starred: Danger Man (1960) (John Drake), Secret Agent (1964) (John Drake), The Prisoner (1967) (Number Six), and Rafferty (1977) (Dr. Sid Rafferty). |
| 39 | Directed at least one episode of all four series in which he starred: Danger Man (1960), Secret Agent (1964), The Prisoner (1967), and Rafferty (1977). |
| 40 | Played the same regular character (John Drake) in two different series of Danger Man: Danger Man (1960) and Secret Agent (1964). His The Prisoner (1967) character, Number Six, may also have been intended to be Drake (although McGoohan has always denied this while George Markstein, who co-created the series with McGoohan, continually said he was). |
| 41 | Father of Catherine McGoohan and Anne McGoohan. |
| 42 | Appeared in three different productions with the same name: the Danger Man (1960) episode "The Prisoner", BBC Sunday-Night Play: The Prisoner (1963), and The Prisoner (1967). Although they were all completely unrelated, the latter two had many similarities. |
| 43 | In 1977 he was considered to replace Peter Falk as Columbo. However, McGoohan turned the part down because he was a close friend of Falk, and believed that only Falk should play Columbo. In addition he did not want to be the star of another TV series but only make guest appearances. |
| 44 | He was the first choice for the roles of Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy (which went to Ian McKellen) and Dumbledore in the "Harry Potter" films (which went to Richard Harris and later to Michael Gambon after Harris' death) but turned them down. |
| 45 | Used his real birthdate and publicity photo for the character he played ("No. 6") in the TV series The Prisoner (1967). |
| 46 | Best known for his starring role as Number 6 in the surreal science fiction allegory series, The Prisoner (1967). |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Night Long | 1962 | Johnny Cousin | |
| Rendezvous | 1961 | TV Series | Gilbert Stoner / Priest |
| ITV Play of the Week | 1958-1961 | TV Series | Sjt Musgrave / The Prosecutor / Frederick Dyson / ... |
| Danger Man | 1960-1961 | TV Series | John Drake |
| Two Living, One Dead | 1961 | Erik Berger | |
| Armchair Theatre | 1958-1961 | TV Series | Nicholai Soloviov / Jack 'Pal' Smurch |
| Tales of the Vikings | 1960 | TV Series | Kreegar |
| World Theatre | 1959 | TV Mini-Series | Brand |
| Folio | 1959 | TV Series | Michael O'Riordan |
| ITV Television Playhouse | 1958 | TV Series | Mat Galvin |
| Elephant Gun | 1958 | Andrew Miller | |
| Television Playwright | 1958 | TV Series | James Coogan |
| The Vise | 1955-1958 | TV Series | Vance / Tony Mason |
| The Gypsy and the Gentleman | 1958 | Jess | |
| Hell Drivers | 1957 | C. 'Red' Redman | |
| High Tide at Noon | 1957 | Simon Breck | |
| Aggie | 1956-1957 | TV Series | Jocko / Migual |
| Assignment Foreign Legion | 1957 | TV Series | Captain Valadon |
| Zarak | 1956 | Moor Larkin | |
| The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | 1956 | TV Series | Sir Glavin |
| Moby Dick Rehearsed | 1955 | TV Movie | A Serious Actor / Starbuck |
| BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | Seth Makepeace |
| I Am a Camera | 1955 | Swedish Water Therapist | |
| Terminus | 1955 | TV Series | James Hartley |
| The Dam Busters | 1955 | Guard on Door (uncredited) | |
| The Dark Avenger | 1955 | English Soldier (uncredited) | |
| Passage Home | 1955 | McIsaacs | |
| You Are There | 1954 | TV Series | William E. Gladstone |
| Treasure Planet | 2002 | Billy Bones (voice) | |
| The Simpsons | 2000 | TV Series | Number Six |
| Columbo | 1974-1998 | TV Series | Eric Prince Oscar Finch Nelson Brenner ... |
| Hysteria | 1997 | Dr. Harvey Langston | |
| A Time to Kill | 1996 | Judge Omar Noose | |
| The Phantom | 1996 | Phantom's Dad | |
| Braveheart | 1995 | Longshanks - King Edward I | |
| The Best of Friends | 1991 | TV Movie | George Bernard Shaw |
| Murder, She Wrote | 1987 | TV Series | Attorney Oliver Quayle |
| Of Pure Blood | 1986 | TV Movie | Dr. Felix Neumann |
| American Playhouse | 1985 | TV Series | Chief Magistrate |
| Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend | 1985 | Doctor Eric Kiviat | |
| Trespasses | 1984 | Fred Wells | |
| Jamaica Inn | 1983 | TV Movie | Joss Merlyn |
| Kings and Desperate Men | 1981 | John Kingsley | |
| Scanners | 1981 | Dr. Paul Ruth | |
| The Hard Way | 1979 | TV Movie | John Connor |
| Escape from Alcatraz | 1979 | Warden | |
| Brass Target | 1978 | Col. Mike McCauley | |
| Rafferty | 1977 | TV Series | Dr. Sid Rafferty |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | 1977 | TV Movie | Fouquet |
| Silver Streak | 1976 | Devereau | |
| A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot | 1975 | Major Cabot | |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | 1971 | James Stuart | |
| The Moonshine War | 1970 | Frank Long | |
| Koroshi | 1968 | TV Movie | John Drake |
| Ice Station Zebra | 1968 | David Jones | |
| The Prisoner | 1967-1968 | TV Series | Number Six Number Twelve |
| Secret Agent | 1964-1967 | TV Series | John Drake |
| Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow | 1963 | Dr. Christopher Syn the Scarecrow | |
| The Three Lives of Thomasina | 1963 | Andrew McDhui | |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1963 | TV Series | Dr. Christopher Syn / The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh |
| BBC Sunday-Night Play | 1963 | TV Mini-Series | The Interrogator |
| The Quare Fellow | 1962 | Thomas Crimmin | |
| Walk in the Shadow | 1962 | Doctor James 'Jim' Brown |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbo | 1998-2000 | TV Series co-executive producer - 2 episodes | |
| The Prisoner | 1967-1968 | TV Series executive producer - 17 episodes |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbo | 1975-2000 | TV Series 5 episodes | |
| Rafferty | 1977 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Catch My Soul | 1974 | ||
| The Prisoner | 1967-1968 | TV Series 4 episodes | |
| Secret Agent | 1965-1966 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| Danger Man | 1961 | TV Series 1 episode |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbo | TV Series 1 episode, 1998 teleplay by - 1 episode, 2000 | ||
| The Prisoner | TV Series written by - 3 episodes, 1967 - 1968 creator - 3 episodes, 1967 |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Secret Agent | 1967 | TV Series performer - 1 episode |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Cowslip | 2009 | very special thanks | |
| Kreating Karloff | 2006 | Documentary special thanks | |
| The Prisoner: 35 Years of a Television Phenomenon | 2003 | Video documentary with appreciation to |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Braveheart: A Look Back | 2009 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Interviews with the Cast of 'Braveheart' | 2007 | Video short | Himself |
| Tales of William Wallace | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Persuader: The TV Times of Lord Lew Grade | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Six Into One: The Prisoner File | 1984 | TV Movie | Himself |
| CBS Galaxy | 1977 | TV Special | Himself - Guest |
| The Prisoner Puzzle | 1977 | TV Movie | Himself - Guest |
| Shooting the Moonshine War | 1970 | Documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
| Journey Into Darkness | 1968 | Himself - Host | |
| The Man Who Makes the Difference | 1968 | Documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sixties | 2014 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Number Six |
| The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Himself - In Memoriam |
| The Orange British Academy Film Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Himself - Memorial Tribute |
| 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Himself - Memorial Tribute |
| Don't Knock Yourself Out | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
| Timeshift | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Number Six |
| Brilliant But Cancelled | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Astley's Way | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | |
| The Greatest | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Number Six |
| In Search of the Prisoner | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Number Six |
| Derrick contre Superman | 1992 | TV Short | Numéro 6 |
| The Prisoner Video Companion | 1990 | Video documentary | Number 6 John Drake |
| The Laughing Prisoner | 1987 | TV Movie | Number Six |
| Lionpower from MGM | 1967 | Short | David Jones (uncredited) |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1965 | TV Series | Andrew McDhui |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series | Columbo (1971) |
| 1975 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series | Columbo (1971) |
| 1960 | BAFTA TV Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Actor |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Hugo | Hugo Awards | Best Dramatic Presentation | The Prisoner (1967) |
Known for movies
Braveheart (1995)
as Longshanks - King Edward I
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
as Warden
Secret Agent (1964-1967)
as John Drake
Scanners (1981)
as Dr. Paul Ruth