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Noel Purcell (born 23 December, 1900 — March 3, 1985) was an Irish film and television actor.

Irish actor Noel Purcell, graced many a film and TV show with variations of his standard character, the bearded, boozy son of the Auld Sod. Stage-trained in the classics in Dublin, Purcell moved into films in 1934.

His days of prominence, which lasted until the 1970s, began with Captain Boycott (1947), saw Purcell cast as the elderly sailor whose death marooned the lovers-to-be in The Blue Lagoon (1949). Purcell was dominant among Captain Ahab's crew in Moby Dick (1956) and highly visible as a gameskeeper in The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), both films directed by John Huston.

In 1955, he was an off-and-on regular on the British filmed TV series The Buccaneers (released to American TV in 1956), and Purcell narrated a Hibernian documentary, Seven Wonders of Ireland (1959).(1962)was a good year for the hirsuite hibernian with a sterling performance as the lusty William McCoy in Lewis Milestones Mutiny on The Bounty.One of Purcell's best-remembered appearances of the 1960s was as Lebanese-American entertainer Danny Williams' tactiturn Irish in-law in a 1963 episode of The Danny Thomas Show.

In 1971 he turned in a rare and powerful performance in his best part to date as the caring Rabbi in the children's musical drama The Flight of The Doves. Shot in a fictional synagogue in Dublin's now Temple bar area. Purcell is immense as the bearded holy man who assists in the escape of the tragic brother and sister Finn and Derval Dove.

In 1985, Noel Purcell died in Dublin, Ireland, at the age of 84.

Filmography

• 1971-Flight of the doves
• 1968 - Sinful Davey
• 1965 - Lord Jim
• 1963 - The List of Adrian Messenger
• 1962 - The Iron Maiden
• 1962 - Mutiny on the Bounty
• 1960 - Watch Your Stern
• 1959 - Ferry to Hong Kong
• 1958 - The Key
• 1958 - Rockets Galore
• 1956 - Moby Dick
• 1952 - The Crimson Pirate
• 1951 - Appointment with Venus
• 1951 - Encore
• 1949 - The Blue Lagoon
• 1947 - Captain Boycott

See also

• List of people on stamps of Ireland

External links

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