Noel Purcell and Dermot Breen

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Dublin Core

Title

Noel Purcell and Dermot Breen

Subject

Cork Film Festival, Noel Purcell, Dermot Breen, Eileen Marmion

Description

This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen standing in front of a microphone with the Irish stage, television, and screen actor Noel Purcell. Purcell, with his trademark beard, and hands clasped before him, is looking at the microphone as if in conversation or mid-speech. Breen is looking up at Purcell on the right. Purcell was a regular visitor to the festival and there are many images of him in the archive.

He was born in Dublin in 1900 and started out as a schoolboy working at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. Well known for his stagecraft Purcell would later appear in the first sound film version of The Blue Lagoon (Frank Launder, 1949), and has a large filmography including parts in Moby Dick (John Huston, 1956), Mutiny on the Bounty (Lewis Milestone, 1962), and The Mackintosh Man (1973) directed by John Huston. He was married to Eileen Marmion who was also a stage performer who performed all over Ireland and the UK. Noel Purcell died in 1985, age 85, and his wife Marmion died, age 100, in 2018.

Creator

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, RW Hammond

Source

Cork Film Festival Collection

Publisher

University College Cork

Contributor

RW Hammond

Rights

©RW Hammond. All rights reserved. Please credit Cork International Film Festival & provide a link back to this site.

Format

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

Language

English, eng

Coverage

Cork, Ireland

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photo

Physical Dimensions

256 x 204mm

Collection

Citation

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, RW Hammond, “Noel Purcell and Dermot Breen,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 21, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/96.