Noel Purcell

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Noel Purcell (born 23 December, 1900 — March 3, 1985) was an Irish film and television actor. The female sponsor at his baptism was Mary Boylan (nee Harmon).<p>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.<p>His days of prominence, which began with Captain Boycott (1947) and lasted until the 1970's, saw Purcell cast as the elderly sailor whose death marooned the lovers-to-be in the first sound film version of 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.<p>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...