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.

Trivia: Mary Morris -- not to be confused with the similarly named American actress -- was a busy actress in England across four decades, primarily in the theater, interspersed with a lot of work on British television and the occasional film role. Born in the Fiji Islands in 1915, she was educated in England, and was bitten by the acting bug before age ten. By 20, she'd landed her first professional role in Lysistrata at the Gate Theatre. She concentrated on the stage throughout her career over the next 40 years -- slight in stature, and dark-complexioned, with wide, expressive eyes and a deep, powerfully expressive voice, she aimed herself at a huge range of parts, counting Juliet, Cleopatra, and Saint Joan among her favorites but also encompassing works such as John Masefield's The Witch. And according to the London Times, she turned Peter Pan from J.M. Barrie's work into something "quite frightening." On film, she played onto a tiny handful of roles, starting for producer Alexander Korda in the late '30s, in The Spy in Black (1939) and much more prominently in The Thief of Bagdad (1940), in which she played both Halima, a villainous confederate of the evil vizier portrayed by Conrad Veidt, and the sinister, murderous mechanical "Silver Maid." She also worked for Leslie Howard in the actor/director's thriller Pimpernel Smith (1941). Morris appeared in dozens of dramas on British television, in between her theater commitments, and her best-known part on the small-screen was in an episode of The Prisoner entitled "Dance of the Dead," in which she played "Number Two," the sinister operational head of "The Village" in which the hero is trapped; at one point in that episode, there is a costume ball in which Morris got to briefly revive her notably dark and sinister version of Peter Pan.

Trivia: Versatile Australian actor Alan White played leads on stage, radio, television, and screen. In 1954, he moved to Britain to continue his film career.

Trivia: Scottish supporting actor, onscreen from the '50s.

Trivia: British actor Aubrey Morris had quirky little character roles in numerous films of the '70s and '80s. He was seen as P. R. Deltoid in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1970), Dr. Putnam in Blood From the Mummy's Tomb (1972) and The Old Gardener/Gravedigger in the cult horror item The Wicker Man (1973). Additional credits include Woody Allen's Love and Death (1975), Ken Russell's Lisztomania (1975), and Gene Wilder's The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1977) Followers of TV's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) will remember Aubrey Morris in the recurring role of The Captain. Morris' final role was in a 2015 episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; he passed away later that year, at age 89.

Trivia: British character actor, onscreen from 1931; he often played strong authority figures.

Trivia: Typically cast as someone's devoted mother or a charwoman, character-actress Patsy Smart had a steady but rather undistinguished film career that began in The Mailbag Robbery(1957) and culminated with Electric Dreams (1987). She has also appeared much on television in programs that include Secret Agent, The Avenger, and Q.E.D.