Los Angeles - Patrick McGoohan, the British actor who created and starred in the 1960's cult classic The Prisoner, has died aged 80 at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, his family announced Wednesday.
McGoohan died peacefully on 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.