Noel Purcell

Noel Purcell

Acting 1900-12-23 Dublin, Ireland

Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell (23 December 1900 – 3 March 1985) was a distinguished Irish actor on stage, screen, and television. He appeared in the 1956 film Moby Dick and the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty. Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell was the son of Dublin auctioneer Pierce Purcell and his second wife Catherine (née Hoban), an antique dealer. He was born at 11a, Lower Mercer Street, one of two houses owned by his mother's family. Purcell was educated at Synge Street CBS. He lost the tip of his right index finger while making cigarette vending machines, and was also missing his entire left index finger due to a different accident while he was an apprentice carpenter, a feature which he exploited for dramatic effect in the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). Purcell began his show business career at the age of 12 in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. Later, he toured Ireland in a vaudeville act with Jimmy O'Dea. Stage-trained in the classics in Dublin, Purcell moved into films in 1934. He appeared in Captain Boycott (1947) and as the elderly sailor whose death marooned the lovers-to-be in the first sound film version of The Blue Lagoon (1949). He played a member of Captain Ahab's crew in Moby Dick (1956), Dan O'Flaherty in episode one, The Majesty of the Law, of The Rising of the Moon (1957), a gamekeeper in The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), and a barman in The Mackintosh Man (1973); the last two films were 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). He narrated a Hibernian documentary, Seven Wonders of Ireland (1959). In 1962, he portrayed the lusty William McCoy in Lewis Milestone's Mutiny on the Bounty. He played a taciturn Irish in-law to Lebanese American entertainer Danny Thomas's character Danny Williams in a 1963 episode of The Danny Thomas Show. In 1971, he played the caring rabbi in the children's musical drama Flight of the Doves. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1958 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre. Purcell also gained some recognition as a singer. Shortly after the Second World War, songwriter Leo Maguire composed "The Dublin Saunter" for him. He performed the song live for many years and later recorded it for the Glenside label. However, the recording was not a hit. As Purcell recalled many years later, "I don't think one person in the world bought it." However, over time it became one of the most favorite songs about Dublin, receiving countless air plays on radio programs. In his later years, Purcell was asked by RTÉ journalist Colm Connolly whether he had received many royalties down the years. Purcell replied: "Not a penny. I recorded it as a favor for a pal, Leo Maguire, who'd written it. No contract or anything, so I never got a fee or any payments." In 1981 (on YouTube it's 1974) he recorded a spoken word version of Pete St. John's "Dublin in the Rare Old Times". In June 1984, Purcell was given the Freedom of the City of Dublin. Nine months later, he died in his native city at the age of 84. On 7 July 1941, Purcell married former child actress Eileen Marmion. They had four sons.

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1973 O'Donovan
1971 Rabbi
1971 Hennessy
1970 Ferry Captain
1969 Jock
1969 Leatherchest
1967 John Michael Leary
1966 Capt. Daniel O'Flannery
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1966 O'Malley
1965 Captain Chester
1963 Admiral Sir Digby Trevelyan
1963 Abel Worthy
1963 Miles Bleeker
1963 Countryman (uncredited)
1963 Finigan
1962 Seaman William McCoy
1962 Sir Hubert
1962 Brendan Cullin
1962 Mike Kelly
1961 O'Malley
1961 Brother Timothy
1961 Jonah Barnard
1960 Professor Merton
1960 Prosecutor
1960 Tandy
1960 Adm. Sir Humphrey Pettigrew
1960 Burglar
1960 Father Sheehy (uncredited)
1959 Joe Skinner
1959 Captain
1959 Liam O'Sullivan
1958 Matthew Larabee
1958 Father James
1958 Hotel Clerk
1958 Tim Hennessy
1957 Dan O'Flaherty (segment 'The Majesty of the Law')
1957 Padre
1956 Anton Mauve
1956 Mr. Owen, the Parson
1956 Ship's Carpenter
1956 Pat
1955 Corble
1954 Patrick O'Farrell
1954 Paddy Clarke
1954 Percy
1954 Padre (uncredited)
1953 Philip Balfour
1953 Father Francisco
1952 Pablo Murphy
1952 Shaughnessy
1952 Roker
1951 Trawler Langley
1951 Matty McGrath
1951 Tom, Captain
1951 Guard Mannigan
1949 Paddy Button
1949 Flaherty
1947 Daniel McGinty
1947 Tram Conductor (uncredited)
1938 Garda Sergeant Hogan