Alexis Kanner

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Alexis Kanner (May 2, 1942 - December 13, 2003) was a French-born Anglo Canadian actor most famous for appearing in the ground breaking TV series The Prisoner. He was born in Nazi occupied France and with his family escaped to Montreal, Canada in April 1944 on the ship Serpa Pinto and then moved to England to further his acting career. He appeared as Detective Constable Matt Stone in 9 episodes of Softly Softly Task Force in 1966 on BBC TV (Very little if any of this footage exists as the BBC "junked" or taped over a lot of influential B & W programmes in the 60's and early 70's to make space in their archives not realising that a market to sell these would exist years later) before being cast by Patrick McGoohan as the mute psychopathic KID / No.8 in the episode Living in Harmony. This led to further appearances in The Girl Who Was Death and the final episode Fall Out. He portrayed the rebellious No.48 in Fall Out and an uncredited performance as the photographer in TGWWD which was memorable for his death defying stunt work on a roller coaster. He was considered a very physical actor and was deemed by some critics that he could have been the British James Dean if he could have controlled his sometimes pretentious attitude of himself. He starred in a number of films soon after including Crossplot with Roger Moore, Connecting Rooms with Bette Davis and Michael Redgrave, Goodbye Gemini, and Mahoney's Estate ( he also co-wrote and co-directed this film ) He is wrongly credited with appearing in UFO:Invasion in 1972( This was a "cobbled" together film made up of the episodes from the TV series UFO made in 1970, he had appeared in an episode called The Cat With 10 Lives but no footage of this was used in the "feature film"...) He moved back to Canada and he worked again with McGoohan on the film Kings And Desperate Men - A Hostage Incident in 1981 in which he starred opposite as well as writing, producing and directing the film. His final known film is an Isaac Asimov story called Nightfall which came out in 1988. He settled back in London in 1996 and died of a heart attack on the December 13 2003.