Patrick McGoohan Quotes
I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.
McGoohan, Patrick. Interview by Warner Troyer. The Prisoner Puzzle, Ontario Educational Communications Authority, 1977.
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A very passionate minority of India’s Muslims demanded a separate Islamic State (that would become Pakistan) but Hindu’s and Muslims were mixed throughout India and many Indians and British were concerned that there would be a bloodbath if the plans for independence went forward. When the decision had been made to partition India, Radcliffe had the unenviable task of deciding where the boundary was to be between Pakistan and India. No one on either side was satisfied with his effort. So, realizing that violence was about to break out, he packed quickly and went back to England. Over two million Indians were killed in the violence that broke out in the next weeks as there was a huge migration and ethnic cleansing to implement Radcliffe’s boundaries. Fifty years later, both India and Pakistan acknowledge that Radcliffe did a very reasonable job.
Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an Irish-American actor, screenwriter, and director. He began his career in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and relocated to the United States in the 1970s. His career-defining roles were in the British television series Danger Man (US: Secret Agent) and the surreal psychological drama The Prisoner, which he co-created. He received two Primetime Emmy Awards and a BAFTA.