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Mike from Neighbours?
Aged like sour milk.
Or aged like 1000 bottles of baby oil...
Lol. Very apt.
Who does Kanye West vote for now that Hitler's dead?
Supposedly was a serious contender at some point.
According to his daughter, Lew Grade described McGoohan as "moving like a panther," forceful & decisive, which is something I think Dana Broccoli said of Connery.
Either turned it down it or expressed disinterest, for moral reasons, as I understand it. But probably would have quickly fallen out with the producers ....
Definitely had the cool factor.
Very charismatic.
And visually communicated immense intelligence.
But also ahead of his time, idiosyncratic and potentially too intense for the period. And not so much of a ladies' man.
But time-travel forty years and I could easily imagine him in some niche variation of Craig-Bond, defiant, paranoid & persecuted ... and not a little bit mad.
He would have been a good villain.
Stanley Baker was another one in that movie.
Was he a well-known actor in the UK?
In my imagined McGoohan alternate-Bond universe, I confess he was always too much the anti-hero, always too conflicted to truly have been Bond. Maybe the character of Alec Trevelyan would have better suited him ... and certainly anyone who's seen Ice Station Zebra will get the connection.
I wonder if PM didn't overplay the anti-violence thing, so strong is the anecdotal evidence. But certainly on the evidence of this rather humorous clip compilation, he was not at all averse to guns.
Baker I think would have been a good alternative to Connery. He had that similar rugged feel to him that would have been needed to bring Bond to the screen at that time.
From my understanding McGoohan was Catholic and wasn’t keen on glamorising a character like Bond who has quite a lot of casual sex. I’m not sure how much it was to do with the violence.
McGoohan refused to kiss another woman than his wife, being a devout Catholic is the reason I heard.