High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an American-born actor, raised in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage and film career, most notably 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. He subsequently appeared in several Columbo episodes, twice winning an Emmy. He was featured in David Cronenberg`s Scanners (1981), and played Edward I of England aka Longshanks in Mel Gibson`s Braveheart (1995).