Cast: Noel Purcell
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Noel Purcell. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Ceremony
1963 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Laurence Harvey
Cast Laurence Harvey · Sarah Miles · Robert Walker Jr. · John Ireland
Plot A bank robber is sentenced to prison for committing a murder during the robbery. His brother comes up with a plan to break him out of prison--but on the condition...
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Father's Doing Fine
1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Cass
Cast Richard Attenborough · Heather Thatcher · Noel Purcell · George Tjorpe
Plot Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending...
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Doctor in Clover
1966 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Leslie Phillips · James Robertson Justice · Shirley Anne Field · John Fraser
Plot Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to...
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Man in the Moon
1960 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden
Cast Kenneth More · Shirley Anne Field · Michael Hordern · Charles Gray
Plot Scientists are looking for a man to send up to be the first man on the moon. A man immune to worry, disease and even the common cold. They think...
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Rooney
1958 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George Pollock
Cast John Gregson · Muriel Pavlow · Barry Fitzgerald · June Thorburn
Plot The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
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Flight of the Doves
1971 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Nelson
Cast Ron Moody · Jack Wild · Dorothy McGuire · Stanley Holloway
Plot While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.
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Mad About Men
1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Glynis Johns · Donald Sinden · Anne Crawford · Margaret Rutherford
Plot Gymnastics school teacher Caroline Trewella inherits a house on the Cornwall coast. In the basement/smuggler's cave, she discovers mermaid Miranda. The young women share a common ancestor and are remarkably...
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Make Mine Mink
1960 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Asher
Cast Terry-Thomas · Athene Seyler · Hattie Jacques · Elspeth Duxbury
Plot Zany collection of misfits led by aging military man (Terry-Thomas) go on a spree of robbing mink coats. An unlikely trio of women (Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, and Elspeth Duxbury)...
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Watch Your Stern
1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Thomas
Cast Kenneth Connor · Eric Barker · Leslie Phillips · Joan Sims
Plot When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a...
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Johnny Nobody
1961 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Nigel Patrick
Cast Nigel Patrick · Yvonne Mitchell · William Bendix · Aldo Ray
Plot When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has...
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Jacqueline
1956 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Ward Baker
Cast John Gregson · Kathleen Ryan · Jacqueline Ryan · Noel Purcell
Plot Jacqueline McNeil (Jacqueline Ryan) is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil (John Gregson). However the worker's employment is compromised by his severe fear of heights. Following dismissal from...
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Drop Dead Darling
1966 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Hughes
Cast Tony Curtis · Rosanna Schiaffino · Lionel Jeffries · Zsa Zsa Gabor
Plot Nick has married several times, but all his rich wives were "accidently" killed after some time. Now he's married a young Italian widow, but it is not so easy to...
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The Iron Maiden
1963 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Thomas
Cast Michael Craig · Anne Helm · Jeff Donnell · Alan Hale Jr.
Plot An American airline firm plans to buy a new British passenger plane, but the deal hits trouble when the plane's designer, Jack Hopkins (Michael Craig), and Kathy Fisher (Anne Helm),...
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Encore
1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French · Pat Jackson · Anthony Pelissier
Cast Nigel Patrick · Roland Culver · Kay Walsh · Noel Purcell
Plot The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, "The Ant and the Grasshopper" concerns the trials and tribulations a ne'er-do-well brother, Tom Ramsey, puts...
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Where's Jack?
1969 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Clavell
Cast Tommy Steele · Stanley Baker · Alan Badel · Dudley Foster
Plot Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London. Jack is working as an apprentice to a clockmaker when his...
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No Kidding
1960 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Thomas
Cast Leslie Phillips · Geraldine McEwan · Julia Lockwood · Irene Handl
Plot A young, married couple inherit an estate and decide to turn it into a summer camp for children.
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Tommy the Toreador
1959 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Paddy Carstairs
Cast Tommy Steele · Janet Munro · Sid James · Bernard Cribbins
Plot Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Tommy finishes up in the bull-ring facing...
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Captain Boycott
1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Stewart Granger · Kathleen Ryan · Alastair Sim · Robert Donat
Plot Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the brutality of Captain Boycott, the rent collector for the Earl of...
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Rockets Galore
1958 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Relph
Cast Jeannie Carson · Donald Sinden · Roland Culver · Catherine Lacey
Plot Inhabitants of a small island in the Atlantic resist their government's plan to make their home a missile base.
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The Violent Enemy
1967 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Don Sharp
Cast Tom Bell · Susan Hampshire · Ed Begley · Noel Purcell
Plot Irish terrorist breaks out of prison, and heads back to Ireland intending to blow up an electronics factory
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