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Los Angeles, Jan 15 (DPA) Patrick McGoohan, the British actor who created and starred in the 1960s cult classic 'The Prisoner', has died aged 80 at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, his family announced Wednesday.
McGoohan died peacefully Tuesday after a short illness, his son-in-law Cleve Landsberg said in a statement.
McGoohan was most famous for playing a character known only as Number Six in the cult hit series 'The Prisoner' in which he is abducted and held captive by sinister unknown powers on a strange island village.
He also had several notable film roles including parts in the classic comedy-drama 'Silver Streak' and as the antangonist King Edward I, nicknamed Longshanks, in Mel Gibson's Oscar-winning epic 'Braveheart'. He also won two Emmy Awards for his work on the Peter Falk detective drama 'Columbo'.
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