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He also appeared in the title role of Disney's Dr.Syn alias The Scarecrow of
Romney Marsh.This is a great movie for those of you who haven't seen it.
Avenger,
I just purchased that DVD series and until you mentioned that I didn't know Patrick was in that Disney series. Or maybe forgotton. Thanks.
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Well Another Big One Passed on Yesterday "Ricardo Montaban" He Was 88 !
Bill
"Boss, the plane, the plane". Ah, the memories.
Rest in peace, Mr. Montaban.
To my mind, two major actors are now gone!
Montaban was a consumate actor. He made a short-lived TV series here in San Antonio in the 90s (don't remember the name) in which he played an angel. I recall that he broke a leg many years ago which never healed properly and gave him a pronounce limp.
McGoohan was famous for "The Prisoner" series which caused a lot of discussion, but I also remember him in one of my favorite movies, "Ice Station Zebra," where he played the British spy in one of his over-the-top, but still excellent and memorable, performances.
Both will be sorely missed!!! R.I.P.
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The Prisoner was required watching for fans during the early 60s every sunday night you would seeit and wonder what the hell it was all about.
But ice Station Zebra was a good film as was Dr Syn.
He was a good actor.
Ricardo Montalban The Train Robbers, Fantasy Island and many others.
Also yesterday the author John Mortimore and ex barristor who wrote the popular television series Rumpole of the Bailey.
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Arthur
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. . . . . . . Also yesterday the author John Mortimore and ex barristor who wrote the popular television series Rumpole of the Bailey.
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Arthur
Could you tell us a little more about Mortimore? I am sure we would be interested in him.
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I loved Rumpole. A great character and great stories. R.I.P. John Mortimore.
I used to watch the tv series Rumpole, Of The Bailey with the great Leo McKern. Didn't watch it all the time, just once in awhile on our local PBS channel. It was pretty good. And McKerns acting was first rate.
Hi Mike
'As the creator of the much loved Hirace Rumpole and an award winning TV version of Brideshead revisited Sir John Mortimore was one of the 20th Century's most popular authors.
But he also had a hugely successful day job as a barrister. He fought several high profile censorship battles including the Lady Chatterleys Lover obsenity case in 1960 and the Oz magazine trial in 1971.
He was educated at Harrow and Oxford before being called to the bar in 1948.
After graduating he got a job at Pinewood studios as a scripwriter, and wrote propaganda documentaries during the Second World War.'
Rumple had a screen wife Hilda, whom he referred to as she that must be obeyed but she never appeared on screen. Rumple of the Bailey played brilliantly by Leo Mckern was a little fat crusty figure always willing to take on the establishment and it made for great entertainment.
RIP Sir John
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Arthur
Been away for a while, but R.I.P all great artists mentioned here,
who have recently passed away
And speaking of Ricardo Montalban, HDNet Movies is showing The Dukes The Train Robbers and I nearly forgot that Montalban had a pretty good role in that one. Didn't have much dialogue but, he was key near the end of the movie.
James Whitmore died http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/07/obit.whitmore/
Hi
Another famous face gone, I thought he was a great actor who appeared in a number of fine films. RIP
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Arthur
James Whitmore died http://http://news.yahoo.com/s…IJ3vS7rhWDrxzOSgMmClxFb8C
Thanks May,
Can you check the link please!
RIP! I loved his part as King Edward I in Braveheart!
Display MoreI didn't really know him but some of you may, so this is in memory of Patrick. May he rest in peace.
Patrick McGoohan, TV's 'Secret Agent' and 'Prisoner,' dies
Patrick McGoohan in "Danger Man" on CBS in 1961.
The British actor, 80, often played villains on TV and in movies. But he gained his greatest fame as the TV spy John Drake. He also won two Emmys for 'Columbo.'
By Dennis McLellan
5:09 PM PST, January 14, 2009
Patrick McGoohan, a two-time Emmy Award-winning actor who starred as a British spy in the 1960s TV series "Secret Agent" and gained cult status later in the decade as the star of the enigmatic series "The Prisoner," has died. He was 80.
McGoohan, whose career spanned stage, screen and TV, died peacefully Tuesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica after a short illness, said Cleve Landsberg, McGoohan's son-in-law. The family did not provide further details.
It was the height of James Bond mania in 1965 when McGoohan showed up on American TV screens in "Secret Agent," a British-produced series in which he played John Drake, a special security agent working as a spy for the British government.
The hourlong series, which ran on CBS until 1966, was an expanded version of “Danger Man,” a short-lived, half-hour series on CBS in 1961 in which McGoohan played the same character.
But it was McGoohan's next British-produced series, “The Prisoner,” on CBS in 1968 and 1969, that became a cult classic that spawned fan clubs, conventions and college study.
Once described in The Times as an "espionage tale as crafted by Kafka," "The Prisoner" starred McGoohan as a presumed British agent who, after resigning his top-security job, is abducted in London and taken to a mysterious prison resort called the Village. .
Known only as No. 6, he is interrogated by a succession of officials who are known as No. 2. But he refuses all methods of breaking him down to reveal his past or why he resigned, and he repeatedly makes failed attempts to escape.
The seemingly idyllic village contains "seeing eyes" that monitor activities and signs such as "A Still Tongue Makes a Peaceful Life."
McGoohan co-created and executive-produced the series, which ran for only 17 episodes, as well as wrote and directed several episodes.
In a 1967 interview with The Times, he described the series as "Brave New World" stuff.
"Nobody has a name, everyone wears a number," he said. "It's a reflection of the pressure on all of us today to be numbered, to give up our individualism. This is a contemporary subject, not science fiction. I hope these things will be recognized by the audience. It's not meant to be subtle. It's meant to say: This little village is our world."
Of the enduring cult status of the series, McGoohan once said: "Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number."
McGoohan, who reportedly turned down an offer to be the big-screen's original James Bond, appeared in films such as "The Three Lives of Thomasina," "Mary, Queen of Scots," "Silver Streak," "Escape From Alcatraz," "Scanners" and Gibson's "Braveheart," in which he played England's sadistic King Edward I.
In his review of "Braveheart" in The Times, critic Peter Rainer wrote: "Patrick McGoohan is in possession of perhaps the most villainous enunciation in the history of acting."
As a guest star on Peter Falk's TV detective-series "Columbo," McGoohan won Emmys in 1975 and 1990.
Falk once described McGoohan, who also occasionally worked as a director and writer on the "Columbo" mysteries, as being "mesmerizing" as an actor.
"There are many very, very talented people in this business, but there are only a handful of genuinely original people," Falk told the Hollywood Reporter in 2004. "I think Patrick McGoohan belongs in that small select group of truly original people."
He was born to Irish parents in Astoria, Long Island, N.Y., on March 19, 1928. Some months later, his family returned to Ireland, where he grew up on a farm before moving to Sheffield, England, when he was 7.
In the late '40s, after working a number of jobs, he landed as a stage manager at Sheffield Repertory Theatre, where he soon launched his acting career.
In 1951, he married actress Joan Drummond, with whom he had three daughters, Catherine, Anne and Frances.
In 1959, he received a London Drama Critics Award for his performance in a London stage production of Ibsen's "Brand."
On television, McGoohan also starred in the short-lived 1977 medical drama "Rafferty."
Sharif Ali, McGoohan's agent, said McGoohan had been writing and had two acting offers on the table before he died.
"He really didn't talk much about his illness," said Ali. "We were too busy talking about his future; he was excited to get back to work. He had so much more to give."
In addition to his wife and daughters, McGoohan is survived by five grandchildren and a great-grandson.
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R.I.P. James Whitmore. I remember him in one of his earliest roles in "Them" with James Arness. His son (Jr.) is very active as a TV director.
Phillip Carey died. He was on One Life to Live for years but I remember him from Loredo way back in the '60's.
http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/news/2009/0209-carey.php
Hi
Very sad I liked Phil Carey and was watching one of his films The Great Sioux Massacre last week on television.
he appeared in many fine films -Operation Pacific, Calamity Jane and The Thin Grey Line to name only a couple. We never get to see many of your daytime shows over here so all of those shows are unknown to us.
But another fine actor gone.
R.I.P. Phil
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Arthur
R.I.P. Phil Cary.
Yes Arthur is correct about Operation Pacific.
Many folks thought he was a relative of Harry Carey,
but he was not.
Hi
At one stage John Ford took an interest in his career and it was suggested that Phillip Carey would become a member of Ford's 'stock company' and his first of many roles would be in 'The Long Grey Line'. However during filming Carey absented himself without leave one night and as was Ford's way he never worked for him again.
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Arthur
