London
(ANI):
Veteran
actor
Patrick
McGoohan,
best
known
for
is
role
in
cult
1960s
TV
show
'The
Prisoner,
has
died.
The
Emmy
award-winning
actor
passed
away
in
Los
Angeles
following
a
short
illness,
according
to
his
film
producer
son-in-law
Cleve
Landsberg.
He
was
80.
McGoohan
played
the
character
Six
in
the
1960s
show,
reports
the
BBC.
He
won
two
Emmy
awards
for
his
work
on
TV
detective
series
Columbo,
playing
different
characters.
His
string
of
awards
also
includes
Bafta
in
1959
for
best
television
actor
in
The
Greatest
Man
In
The
World.