Reginald Purdell

Reginald Purdell (4 November 1895 – 22 April 1953) was an English actor and screenwriter who appeared in over 40 films between 1930 and 1951. During the same period he also contributed to the screenplays of 15 feature films, and had a brief foray into directing with two films in 1937.

Career

Purdell was born in Clapham, London. As a young man he served in the British Army with the South Wales Borderers regiment for the duration of World War I. On returning to civilian life after the war, he decided to try his luck as an actor and gained experience on the stage through the 1920s. His move into films in 1930 coincided with the advent of the talkie era in British cinema.

Purdell's first screen appearance was in the 1930 comedy The Middle Watch, in a role he would later reprise in a 1940 remake. He next travelled to Germany to feature in historical drama Congress Dances, an ambitious and lavishly budgeted project by the UFA film company, involving the simultaneous filming of three versions of the same story in German, English and French in an attempt to prove that a European company could challenge the dominance of American studios in the new era of sound by delivering a continent-wide hit.

Purdell, Reginald Filmography

Play in Full Screen Comedy Tonight

1980, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Files from Scotland Yard

1951, role: actor , character name: Inspector Gower
Play in Full Screen Stage Fright

1950, role: actor , character name: Police Car Driver
Play in Full Screen Flotsam's Follies

1950, role: actor
Play in Full Screen A Man About the House

1947, role: actor , character name: Higgs
Play in Full Screen Captain Boycott

1947, role: actor , character name: American reporter
Play in Full Screen Brighton Rock

1947, role: actor , character name: Frank
Play in Full Screen Root of All Evil

1947, role: actor , character name: Perkins
Play in Full Screen Holiday Camp

1947, role: actor , character name: Redcoat
Play in Full Screen London Town

1946, role: actor , character name: Stage Manager
Play in Full Screen Dreaming

1945, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Two Thousand Women

1944, role: actor , character name: Alec Harvey
Play in Full Screen Bell-Bottom George

1944, role: actor , character name: Birdie Edwards
Play in Full Screen Love Story

1944, role: actor , character name: Albert
Play in Full Screen Candles at Nine

1944, role: actor , character name: Charles Lacey
Play in Full Screen It's in the Bag

1944, role: actor , character name: Joe
Play in Full Screen We Dive at Dawn

1943, role: actor , character name: P.O. Dabbs
Play in Full Screen Variety Jubilee

1943, role: actor , character name: Joe Swan
Play in Full Screen The Dark Tower

1943, role: writer
Play in Full Screen We Dive at Dawn

1943, role: actor , character name: Coxwain - C
Play in Full Screen Fingers

1941, role: actor , character name: Creeper
Play in Full Screen Pack Up Your Troubles

1940, role: actor , character name: Tommy Perkins
Play in Full Screen The Middle Watch

1940, role: actor , character name: Cpl Duckett
Play in Full Screen Busman's Honeymoon

1940, role: actor , character name: MacBride
Play in Full Screen Pack Up Your Troubles

1940, role: writer
Play in Full Screen His Brother's Keeper

1940, role: actor , character name: Bunny Reeves
Play in Full Screen The Missing People

1940, role: actor , character name: Harry Morgan
Play in Full Screen The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

1939, role: actor , character name: Beefeater
Play in Full Screen Q Planes

1939, role: actor , character name: Pilot
Play in Full Screen Quiet Please

1938, role: actor , character name: Algy Beresford
Play in Full Screen Many Tanks Mr. Atkins

1938, role: actor , character name: Pete Nutter
Play in Full Screen The Viper

1938, role: writer
Play in Full Screen It's in the Blood

1938, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Simply Terrific

1938, role: actor , character name: Sam Todd
Play in Full Screen Many Tanks Mr. Atkins

1938, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Quiet Please

1938, role: writer
Play in Full Screen The Viper

1938, role: actor , character name: Announcer
Play in Full Screen The Dark Stairway

1938, role: actor , character name: Askew
Play in Full Screen Don't Get Me Wrong

1937, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Ship's Concert

1937, role: actor , character name: Reggie
Play in Full Screen Side Street Angel

1937, role: actor , character name: McGill
Play in Full Screen Ship's Concert

1937, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Take It from Me

1937, role: writer
Play in Full Screen The Compulsory Wife

1937, role: writer
Play in Full Screen The Vulture

1937, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Don't Get Me Wrong

1937, role: director
Play in Full Screen Patricia Gets Her Man

1937, role: director
Play in Full Screen Crown v. Stevens

1936, role: actor , character name: Alf
Play in Full Screen Where's Sally?

1936, role: actor , character name: Dick Burgess
Play in Full Screen Hail and Farewell

1936, role: writer

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Russian Lawmakers Ratify Pact Allowing Indefinite Syrian Presence

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Syria conflict: US calls for Russia and Syria war crimes probe

Edit BBC News 07 Oct 2016

Russia and the Syrian government should be investigated for war crimes, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. "Russia, and the regime, owe the world more than an explanation about why they keep hitting hospitals and medical facilities and children," he said. "These are acts that beg for an appropriate investigation of war crimes.". Moscow has repeatedly denied attacking civilians, and said it targets terrorist groups in Syria ... ....

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Why Some Viewed Trump as a Genius, Hero for Avoiding Taxes

Edit WorldNews.com 07 Oct 2016

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingInstead of a bombshell that should have destroyed Donald Trump’s chances of ever becoming president, Republicans and some Libertarians greeted the news he avoided paying $916 million in taxes by calling it a stroke of genius. Others, meanwhile, hailed him as a hero, even likening him to a modern day Daniel Shays or Robin Hood ... He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com....

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Man hit by vehicle on Interstate 490

Edit Cleveland 08 Oct 2016

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A man was hit by a vehicle Friday night while changing a tire on Interstate 490 westbound, police said.  ... Reginald Lanton said ... ....

As storm hits Florida, Haitians try to help family on island

Edit Deseret News 08 Oct 2016

MIAMI — Nurses and doctors have been delayed by temporary airport closures in South Florida, unable to travel to those in Haiti injured by the hurricane that has killed hundreds. Warehouses collecting medicine, food and other supplies have been at a standstill ... Father Reginald Jean-Marie, pastor of Notre Dame d'Haiti Church, said many Haitian congregants are waiting anxiously on news from loved ones in their homeland ... ....

Man shot in head in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood, police say

Edit Cleveland 07 Oct 2016

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A man was shot in the head Friday afternoon in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood, police said ... Reginald Lanton said ... ....

Archdiocese seeks donations for hurricane-stricken Cuba and Haiti

Edit The Miami Herald 07 Oct 2016

The Archdiocese of Miami on Friday issued an urgent call for canned goods, dry foods including rice and beans, hygiene products and money to be sent to Cuba and Haiti after Hurricane Matthew pummeled the two island nations ... The Rev. Reginald Jean-Marie, faith leader at Notre Dame d’Haiti, said the hurricane devastated both Haiti and Cuba ... Miami Herald reporter Lance Dixon contributed to this report. ....

Entrepreneurs are crazy, but they change the world

Edit The Guardian 07 Oct 2016

The Guardian recently published a letter from a startup employee, criticising their often ‘rudderless, pointless’ culture. This is one startup founder’s reply. Co-founder of Crowdcube ... As Steve Jobs famously said ... Anonymous. Read more ... Many already have an expert understanding of the field – Ajan Reginald of biotech firm Celixir, for example, was previously global head of emerging technologies at healthcare company Roche ... Twitter ... ....

Witnesses testify freely in House Bilibid probe (Congress of the Philippines)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Oct 2016

(Source. Congress of the Philippines) Home Press Releases. PRESS RELEASES. SOURCE. Press and Public Affairs Bureau. Witnesses testify freely in House Bilibid probe. 07-October-2016, 11.26.24 AM ... Of the 13 witnesses the DOJ intended to present, the committee chaired by Rep. Reynaldo V. Umali (2nd District, Oriental Mindoro) allowed five witnesses to testify ... Reginald Villasanta attended the hearing to dispel allegations hurled against them....

Chattanooga area bankruptcies

Edit Times Free Press 07 Oct 2016

These are new cases according to court records, that were filed in the Chattanooga and Winchester offices of U.S. Bankruptcy courts Eastern District of Tennessee, Sept. 12 - 18, 2016. CHATTANOOGA. Colwell, Ira Dale and Sheri Lee, 137 Roberts Lane NE, Cleveland, Tenn., Chapter 13. Smith, Bobby Earl, 136 Paige Drive, Dayton, Tenn., Chapter 13 ... Gunter, Stephen J., 825 Salem Road, Rossville, Chapter 13 ... Knox, Reginald Lebron, P.O ... WINCHESTER....

Dueling harassment claims expose tension among Roselle officials

Edit NJ dot com 06 Oct 2016

First the Roselle mayor told police an assemblyman was harassing her, then a councilman claimed the mayor is harassing him ... Roselle Mayor Christine Dansereau, left, and Councilman Reginald Atkins have each filed complaints with borough police ... (NJ Advance Media file photos). Mayor Christine Dansereau  and Councilman Reginald Atkins have each filed complaints with police. ... Atkins has made the same claim against Dansereau....

'Clown Lives Matter' peace walk planned for Arizona

Edit The Arizona Republic 06 Oct 2016

The Rev. Reginald Walton, chairman of the Arizona Black Lives Matter campaign, told The Republic that the rally's name is "insensitive." ... ....

Federal Indictments Charge 80 Defendants in Alleged Racketeering Conspiracy at Maryland’s Eastern Correctional Institution (FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Oct 2016

(Source. FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation). Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted 80 defendants in two separate indictments for a racketeering conspiracy operating at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, Maryland ... The indictments were returned on September 29, 2016, and unsealed today. The indictments were announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J ... Reginald Johnson, age 37;....

Federal Indictments Charge 80 Defendants in Alleged Racketeering Conspiracy at Maryland’s Eastern Correctional Institution (Federal Bureau of Investigation - Baltimore Field Office)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Oct 2016

(Source. Federal Bureau of Investigation - Baltimore Field Office). Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted 80 defendants in two separate indictments for a racketeering conspiracy operating at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, Maryland ... The indictments were returned on September 29, 2016, and unsealed today ... Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Gordon B ... McKeown of the U.S ... Moyer ... Mr ... Reginald Johnson, age 37;....

Commonwealth Offers to Help U.K. Navigate Brexit Shock via Trade

Edit Bloomberg 05 Oct 2016

Countries that once helped form the British Empire can help support the U.K ... The study released on Wednesday estimated the U.K ... is a very important market for many Commonwealth countries,” said Reginald Darius, head of economic policy for the group ... LEARN MORE. ....

Advancement Project California Statement on the Continued Police Violence Against Black Men and Boys (Advancement Project of California)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Oct 2016

(Source. Advancement Project of California). October 5, 2016. LOS ANGELES - Advancement Project California's Executive Director John Kim has released the following statement in response to the recent police violence in Southern California . ... From Alfred Olango in El Cajon, Reginald Thomas in Pasadena, and now to Carnell Snell Jr., and the still-unidentified man who was shot and killed by the LAPD this weekend ... We are not ... In solidarity,....

Reginald Purdell

Career

Purdell, Reginald Filmography