Has anyone noticed the remarkable similarities between 60’s cult TV actor Patrick McGoohan aka The Prisoner (left) and advertising pioneer David Ogilvy (right)?  The similarities are not only visual; both shared eclectic early careers before making their mark. Whilst Ogilvy spent his formative years engaged as a chicken farmer, bank clerk and lorry driver in Sheffield, McGoohan famously spent time as an Aga salesman, peanut farmer and chef in Paris. Later Ogilvy wrote most of his classic ads from a secret location in Wales whilst McGoohan was often rumoured to be building his cult status in studio sets on Madison Avenue.
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In the 1960 episode of Danger Man, called “The Prisoner” it is remarked that there must be dozens of people who look identical in the world, The trick is to find them. John Drake is given the task of checking out the twelve men that his NATO organisation finds, who are all doppelgangers of the man Drake needs to help escape a despotic regime. Full details here:
http://numbersixwasinnocent.blogspot.com/2009/07/mcgoohan-on-my-mind-villas-vacations.html
Twelve!…… You have found one, now for the other eleven… :-))