The Prisoner - "Once Upon a Time" - 10:00 pm Saturday, November 15 on WBYD Z Living

Patrick McGoohan (Actor) .. The Prisoner (Number 6)

Born: January 13, 2009
Died: January 13, 2009
Birthplace: Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, United States

Trivia: An American-born actor reared in Ireland and England, McGoohan made a memorable impression on the American and English viewing audiences by playing essentially the same role in three different television series. He began his performing career as a teen-ager, eventually played Henry V for the Old Vic company in London, and made mostly unremarkable films in the '50s. His movies include the delightful Disney film The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964). Success came in 1961, when McGoohan played government agent John Drake in Danger Man, a role he continued on Secret Agent (1965-66). He created, produced and often wrote episodes of the nightmarish, surrealistic cult series The Prisoner (1968-69). This show featured a character assumed to be the same John Drake (although he was known as Number 6 and his real name was never mentioned), who had been kidnapped and taken to a strange community. McGoohan later starred in the TV series Rafferty (1977) and directed the film Catch My Soul (1974). He won an Emmy Award in 1975 for his guest appearance on Columbo with Peter Falk.

Angelo Muscat (Actor) .. The Butler

Born: September 24, 1930
Died: October 10, 1977
Birthplace: Malta

Leo McKern (Actor) .. Number 2

Born: March 16, 1920
Died: July 23, 2002
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Trivia: Jowly, curmudgeonly Australian actor Leo McKern was seen in over 200 stage productions during his five-decade career. After several comic-villain film assignments, McKern briefly became an icon of the Swingin' '60s with his portrayal of the blustering cult leader in the Beatles' Help (1965). He has since been seen as Cromwell in A Man For All Seasons (1966), as Professor Moriarty in Gene Wilder's The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1986), and as a pigheaded ex-communist civil engineer in Travelling North (1986), a role which won him several industry awards. In the late 1970s, Leo McKern scored an enormous hit as the title character in the British TV series Rumpole of the Bailey, which ran off and on from 1977 through 1992. Rumpole has been both bogy and blessing to McKern, as he revealed to Vanity Fair magazine in 1995: "I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt. But if I get an obit in the London Times, they will say, '...of course, known to millions as Rumpole.'"

John Cazabon (Actor) .. L'homme au parapluie

John Maxim (Actor) .. Number Eighty Six

Born: July 20, 1925
Died: January 20, 1990

Peter Swanwick (Actor) .. Supervisor

Born: January 01, 1911
Died: January 01, 1968

Ann Barrass (Actor) .. Technician

Peter Madden (Actor) .. Undertaker in opening sequence

Born: January 01, 1901
Died: February 24, 1976

Trivia: Breaking into show business at 16 as the assistant to a "drunken magician" British character actor Peter Madden held down jobs ranging from race-car driver to stand-up comedian before settling into acting. He was frequently cast as slightly tattered politicians, as witness Nothing but the Best (1964) and Dr. Zhivago (1965). His deadpan portrayal of a Tibetan lama was one of the highlights of the otherwise patchy Hope-Crosby vehicle Road to Hong Kong (1962). Espionage fans will remember Peter Madden as Hobbs, John Drake's (Patrick McGoohan) immediate superior, on the mid-1960s TVer Secret Agent.

George Markstein (Actor) .. Man Behind Desk in Title Sequence

Trivia: George Markstein was a journalist whose assignments included time as a military correspondent in Europe during the Cold War of the 1950s, and also work on the crime pages and the police beat in London. He was, thus, well-prepared when he turned to screenwriting, specializing in thrillers. His credits include serving as story editor for the series The Prisoner (in addition to co-writing the pilot script) and adapting the novel The Odessa File (1974) to the screen. Additionally, he wrote nine crime and espionage thrillers, and served as story editor at Thames Television. Markstein collaborated on the script for Robbery (1967), which won the British Writers' Guild prize for Best Original Screenplay. He passed away early in 1987, of kidney failure, after a long illness. Markstein also made one uncredited onscreen appearance during his career, which has put him into many thousands of DVD households around the world -- he played the bald man behind the desk in the opening credits of The Prisoner, to whom series star Patrick McGoohan, playing Drake (the future No. 6 in The Village), angrily submits his resignation.

The Prisoner: Once Upon a Time

10:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Today on WBYD Z Living (39.14)

Once Upon a Time

Season 1, Episode 16