What is Noel Purcell's middle name?
Joseph Noel
What is Noel Purcell's full name?
Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell
Noel Purcell nickname(s):
Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell, Noel Purcell
Noel Purcell date of birth:
December 23, 1900
How old was Noel Purcell when died?
84
Where was Noel Purcell born?
Dublin, Ireland
When did Noel Purcell die?
March 3, 1985
Where did Noel Purcell die?
Dublin, Ireland
Why did Noel Purcell die?
Heart Failure
How tall is Noel Purcell?
6' 4" (193 cm)
Noel Purcell body shape:
Average
What color is Noel Purcell's hair?
Grey
What is Noel Purcell's ethnicity?
White
What is Noel Purcell nationality?
Irish
What is Noel Purcell's occupation?
Actor
Noel Purcell claim to fame:
Moby Dick
Who is Noel Purcell's father?
Pierce Purcell
Who is Noel Purcell's mother?
Catherine, née Hoban
Short Biography
Biography by Hal EricksonIrish 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 '70s, began with 1947's Captain Boycott, and his best part to date was as the elderly salt whose death marooned the lovers-to-be in The Blue Lagoon (1948). 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 in 1959 Purcell narrated a Hibernian documentary, Seven Wonders of Ireland. One of Noel Purcell's best-remembered appearances of the '60s was as Lebanese-American entertainer Danny Williams' tactiturn Irish in-law in a 1963 episode of TV's The Danny Thomas Show.