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Noel Purcell (born December 23, 1900—March
3, 1985) was an Ireland|Irish film 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), and his best part to date was as
the elderly sailor whose death marooned the
lovers-to-be in The Blue Lagoon (1949 film)|The
Blue Lagoon (1949). Purcell was dominant among
Captain Ahab's crew in Moby Dick (1956 film)|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). 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 1985, Noel Purcell died in
Dublin, Ireland at age 84.

  1968 - Sinful Davey 
  1963 - The List of Adrian Messenger
  1962 - The Iron Maiden 
  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