Charles Bronson (prisoner) who called for an inquiry into how the recording had been made. Bronson had initially been refused access to the film, but on 15 November 2011 he was granted permission to view it. Describing it as "theatrical, creative and brilliance", he heaped praise upon Tom Hardy, who portrayed him. He disagreed on the distance suggested in the film between himself and his father, and of the portrayal of fight promoter Paul Edmunds (played by Matt King as Paul Daniels) as "a bit of a ponce". Charles Bronson (prisoner) Charles Arthur "Charlie" Salvador (formerly Charles Ali Ahmed; born Michael Gordon Peterson
The Prisoner was remade as a miniseries, also titled "The Prisoner", which aired in the US on AMC. The miniseries starred Jim Caviezel as Number 6, and Ian McKellen as Number 2, and was shot on location in Namibia and South Africa. The series received mixed reviews, mainly unfavourable, with a 45/100 rating by 21 critics and 3.6/10 by 82 users as of July 2018. Prisoner's finale left open-ended questions, generating controversy and letters of outrage. Following this controversial ending, McGoohan "claimed he had to go into hiding for a while". The Prisoner The Prisoner is a 17-episode British TV series first