Born in New York, McGoohan was only a few months old when his immigrant parents returned to Ireland with him. When he was eight, the family moved again, this time to Sheffield.
He left school with full intentions of fulfilling his mother’s ambition for him to become a priest.
But in 1948, during a temporary stint working as a stage manager at the Sheffield Repertory, McGoohan realised he was destined to tread the boards.
