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 in other media The Prisoner in other media "The Prisoner", a British television series that originally ran from 1967 to 1968, has been represented in several other media. Ace Books in the United States published three original novels based upon the television series. In the 1980s, Roger Langley of the Prisoner Appreciation Society wrote three novellas based upon the series: These books were made available through the fan club, and at the Prisoner Shop in Portmeirion and are long out of print individually. They were reissued and revised in one volume as the Prisoner Trilogy, available from the Prisoner Shop in Portmeirion as