Patrick McGoohan, best known as the ex-spy who thwarted authority on the cult-classic series The Prisoner before ruthlessly enforcing it in Braveheart, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 80.

McGoohan suffered from an undisclosed "short illness," according to his son-in-law; his last major screen role came in 1996's A Time to Kill. The year before that he played Edward Longshanks in Braveheart, winning the love of his people by disemboweling the mutinous Scot William Wallace. He reprised his famous Prisoner stint as Number Six in a 2000 episode of The Simpsons as well, invoking his nameless character's one-season quest to outfox the mysterious "Number Two" and escape the mysterious Village. You finally made it out, Patrick. RIP.