Patrick McGoohan, R.I.P.

As a writer, a director, an artist, and a class act individual of integrity and vision, he has been an inspiration for well more than half a century. His passionate performances in works from Brand to Braveheart challenged audiences and their views of free will, responsibility, authority, and freedom.

I maintain that his masterpiece, The Prisoner, is one of the most imporant and influential, and to my mind the finest, television series of all time. It certainly has had a lasting impact as a classic text on the nature of liberty.

He was a true and uncompromising original, and he remains an inspiration to generations of creative minds. Patrick McGoohan, Rest in Peace.