Noel Purcell (actor)
Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell (born December 23, 1900 in Dublin , Ireland , † March 3, 1985 ibid) was an Irish actor and comedian .
Life
Noel Purcell was born on December 23, 1900 in Lower Mercer Street, Dublin, near St. Stephen's Green . At a young age he worked at Dublin's Gaiety Theater as a call boy who called the actor onto the stage shortly before their appearance. Here his love for the theater developed. However, his mother initially convinced him to take a down-to-earth job. Among other things, Purcell worked as a decorator and cabinet maker . He took one of his first roles in a play in the mid-1920s in a production of Jack the Giant-Killer .
Purcell first appeared in a feature film in 1926 when he took on the role of Garda Sergeant in the later lost silent film Blarney . Despite his first film engagements, Purcell remained loyal to the theater. Occasionally he was seen there in female roles, which was mainly used for comical effects with his height of 1.93 m.
Purcell achieved his breakthrough in the role of the sailor Paddy Button in the film The Blue Lagoon (1949). With his stately figure and his full white beard, Purcell remained predestined for seafaring roles in the years that followed. For example, he played a ship's captain in Dakapo (1951), the ship's carpenter in Moby Dick (1956), a ship mechanic in Ferry to Hong Kong (1959), a captain in Tommy, the Torero (1959), and in Is Yes Crazy - Our Torpedo comes back (1961) an admiral and in mutiny on the Bounty (1962) a mutinous sailor.
His last film role took Purcell in 1973 in the agent film The Mackintosh Man , directed by John Huston , with which Purcell had already worked in 1956 for Moby Dick , 1963 for The Dead List and 1969 for Dave Home in All Beds .
In addition to acting, Purcell was also known as a singer in his hometown. In the late 1940s, Leo Maguire composed the traditional The Dublin Saunter for him , which Purcell also sang live on various occasions. The piece of music was later recorded as a single, but despite its popularity, it did not sell particularly well.
Purcell was married to Eileen Purcell (nee Marmion) from 1941 until his death in 1985. Four sons sprang from the marriage: Michael (* 1942), Glynn (* 1943), Patrick (* 1946) and Victor (* 1953).
Honors
On June 22, 1984 he received the Freedom of the City award from the City of Dublin.
A street built near the house where he was born in 1991 was named Noel Purcell Walk after him.
Filmography (selection)
- 1926: Blarney
- 1935: Jimmy Boy
- 1937: Tatjana (Knight without armor)
- 1947: Launched (Odd Man Out)
- 1947: Captain Boycott
- 1949: The Blue Lagoon (The Blue Lagoon)
- 1949: Saints and Sinners
- 1951: Talk of a Million
- 1951: No Resting Place
- 1951: Appointment with Venus
- 1951: Dakapo ( Encore )
- 1952 Father's Doing Fine
- 1952: The Crimson Pirate (The Crimson Pirate)
- 1952: Mr. Pickwick (The Pickwick Papers)
- 1953: Boccaccio's great love (Decameron Nights)
- 1953: Grand National Night
- 1954: But, Herr Doktor ... (Doctor in the House)
- 1954: Demons of the South Seas (The Seekers)
- 1954: Mad About Men
- 1954: Svengali
- 1955: Doctor Ahoy! (Doctor at Sea)
- 1956: Jacqueline
- 1956: Moby Dick
- 1956: Vincent van Gogh - A life in passion (Lust for Life)
- 1956: The Buccaneers (TV series)
- 1957: Help, the doctor is coming! (Doctor at Large)
- 1957: Pretty Polly
- 1957: The Rising of the Moon
- 1958: King of Jesters (Merry Andrews)
- 1958: Rooney
- 1958: The Key
- 1958: Rockets Galore!
- 1959: A handshake of the devil (Shake Hands with the Devil)
- 1959: Ferry to Hong Kong (Ferry to Hong Kong)
- 1959: Tommy the Toreador
- 1960: The Day After Tomorrow (TV movie)
- 1960: Make Mine Mink
- 1960: The millionaire (The Millionairess)
- 1960: Man in the Moon
- 1960: Lord of the Three Worlds (The 3 Worlds of Gulliver)
- 1961: No Kidding
- 1961: The Houseboat (Double Bunk)
- 1961: It's crazy - our torpedo is coming back (Watch Your Stern)
- 1961: The Shot Out of Nowhere (Johnny Nobody)
- 1962: Three Spare Wives
- 1962: Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutiny on the Bounty)
- 1963: Nurse on Wheels
- 1963: The List of Adrian Messenger
- 1963: The Iron Maiden
- 1963: The second man (The Running Man)
- 1963: Breakfast on Death Row (The Ceremony)
- 1965: Lord Jim
- 1965: With umbrella, charm and bowler hat ( The Avengers , TV series, an episode)
- 1966: Help, she doesn't love me! (Doctor in Clover)
- 1966: Arrivederci, baby! (Drop Dead Darling)
- 1967: The Violent Enemy
- 1969: Dave - Sinful Davey
- 1969: Where's Jack?
- 1970: Never Say Die (TV series, six episodes)
- 1970: Breakout of 28 (The McKenzie Break)
- 1971: Flight of the Doves
- 1972: The Onedin Line ( The Onedin Line , television series, an episode)
- 1973: The Mackintosh Man (The MacKintosh Man)
- 1984: The Irish RM (TV series, episode)
literature
- Philip B. Ryan: Noel Purcell: A Biography. Dufour Editions, 1993, ISBN 978-1-853-71197-8 .
Web links
- Noel Purcell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Noel Purcell at Discogs (English)
- Noel Purcell in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- The grand old man of Irish theater on clarechampion.ie (English)
- Great Character Actors: Noel Purcell at playbrass.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Growing up with Noel Purcell (Part 2) by Patrick Purcell ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at news4.ie, accessed December 2, 2011
- ↑ a b c d Growing up with Noel Purcell (Part 1) by Patrick Purcell ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at news4.ie, accessed December 2, 2011
- ^ Robert Goode Hogan, Richard Burnham: The years of O'Casey, 1921–1926: a documentary history . Colin Smythe Ltd, 1993, ISBN 978-0-851-05428-5 , page 114.
- ↑ Growing up with Noel Purcell (Part 3) by Patrick Purcell ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at news4.ie, accessed December 2, 2011
- ↑ Dublin Saunter at kinglaoghaire.com, accessed December 2, 2011
- ↑ Noel Purcell at irishrollcall.com, accessed December 2, 2011
- ↑ Freemen and Freewomen of Dublin at dublincity.ie, accessed December 2, 2011
- ^ Noel Purcell Walk on Google Maps, accessed December 2, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Purcell, Noel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Purcell, Patrick Joseph Noel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish actor and comedian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1985 |
| Place of death | Dublin , Ireland |