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Lee Purcell's interview on The Life and Times of Steve McQueen in Episode 48
Lee Purcell talks about working with Steve McQueen who launched her film career when he selected her to star in Solar Productions’ Adam at 6 AM.
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Lee Purcell recalls being mentored by pal Steve McQueen, working alongside Kirk, Michael Douglas
Lee Purcell’s career in Hollywood began when she was personally selected and mentored by Steve McQueen to appear alongside a young Michael Douglas — an experience she continues to cherish decades later.
Purcell has kept busy over the years pursuing exactly what she wanted to do as an actress. The Emmy-nominated star is currently in the film “Carol of the Bells,” co-starring friends Donna Mills and Donna Pescow for director Joey Travolta and his Inclusion Films.
On-screen and well as off, 70 percent of the crew was comprised of people with developmental disabilities, giving opportunities to looking to make their mark on the big screen. “Carol of the Bells” is scheduled to appear on The Bentonville Film Festival, which officially kicks off on May 7.
Fox News spoke to Purcell about being mentored by McQueen, working with both Douglas and his father, Kirk Douglas, as well as what has kept her motivated in Hollywood since McQueen’s passing in 1980 at age 50.
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TV Confidential Podcast
Interview with Lee Purcell
Carol of the Bells actress Lee Purcell on being mentored by screen legend Steve McQueen and the cool party trick that James Garner taught her when she filmed Rockford Files
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Interview with Lee Purcell
Carol of the Bells actress Lee Purcell on Steve McQueen, Bill Bixby and James Garner
Actress, writer, director and producer Lee Purcell (Adam at 6 A.M., Big Wednesday, Valley Girl, Due South Long Road Home, Secret Sins of the Fathers) tells Ed why her latest film, Carol of the Bells, was among the most inspiring and rewarding experiences of her lifetime. Directed by Joey Travolta and his company, Inclusion Films (which teaches and employs people in the film industry who have developmental and physical disabilities), Carol of the Bells also features Donna Mills, Donna Pescow, and Geri Jewell, while the title role of “Carol” is played by Andrea F. Freeman, an actress who happens to have Down Syndrome. Carol of the Bells will be among the spotlight films screened at this year’s Bentonville Film Festival in Bentonville, Arkansas on Friday, May 10. (A holiday film, Carol of the Bells is also scheduled to receive a wider release later in 2019.) .
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The Brian and Lee Show:
Interview with Emmy Nominated Actress Lee Purcell
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CAROL OF THE BELLS WORLD PREMIERE
Two films will make their world premieres as Centerpiece Selections at the Bentonville Film Festival on Friday, May 10.
Joey Travolta’s Carol of the Bells will screen at Record North at 4:00 p.m., with Haroula Rose’s Once Upon a River screening at the Skylight Cinema (350 SW A St) at 6:30 p.m.
Carol of the Bells stars Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte as a troubled young man looking for his biological mother, according to the news release.
The film stars a trio of television stars, Donna Pescow, Lee Purcell, and Donna Mills.
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At Jan-Michael Vincent Memorial, John Milius Stands Tall
“He was a good bad boy,” said actress Lee Purcell, who played his wife and lover in Big Wednesday, to murmurs of approval from the crowd of four or five dozen Vincent friends and admirers.
“A troubled Golden Boy,” Milius called Vincent in a video recapping the actor’s career. The reel got rolling on Wednesday when Milius growled “Action!” It acknowledged but didn’t dwell on the drug and alcohol struggles that were already baked into Vincent’s Big Wednesday character, who opened the movie drunk, and at one point caused a traffic debacle that matched any number of crack-ups in the actor’s later life.
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Actress Lee Purcell: From ‘Big Wednesday’ to ‘Persons Unknown’ and in between
By Jeremy Roberts
Actress Lee Purcell has had an extensive and still active career in movies, television, and the theatre, with memorable roles in Charles Bronson's Mr. Majestyk, the high school drama Almost Summer (an early influence on The Breakfast Club) Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor's hilarious Stir Crazy, the outrageously funny Airplane II: The Sequel, and the early '90s television comedy-drama Due South, to name only a few.
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A bit of an existential experience: Movie memories with actress Lee Purcell
By Jeremy Roberts
In a far-ranging interview series, consummate actress Lee Purcell has been remembering a journey that would make most folks envious. She worked with some of the best actors of our generation in many memorable films and series including Bonanza, Mr. Majestyk, Almost Summer, Stir Crazy, and Due South.
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She Fell Out of the Womb
Performing: In Step With Leading
Lady Lee Purcell
By Jeremy Roberts
Actress Lee Purcell has always performed, whether onstage or in front of millions via the silver screen. She has had chief roles in film and television in productions ranging from the cult surfing classic Big Wednesday to the early '80s hit romantic comedy Valley Girl with Nicolas Cage.
Ms. Purcell got her jump-start with Michael Douglas in Adam at 6 A.M., produced by none other than The King of Cool, Steve McQueen.
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'If You Don't Follow Your Dreams, You're Dead': In Step With Actress Lee Purcell
By
Jeremy Roberts
Actress Lee Purcell has had an extensive career in television, motion pictures, and the theatre, appearing most recently in the
NBC sci-fi series Persons Unknown...
Read on below to find out how she became an actress, how she traveled to California alone
(almost dying in an automobile crash), the squalid, junkie-filled apartment complex she called home for a time, and why you should never stop pursuing your dreams.
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Actress Lee Purcell Remembers
Her Mentor Steve McQueen
By
Jeremy Roberts
Today is the 30th anniversary of
Steve McQueen's untimely demise
from mesothelioma (a rare form
of cancer) in Juarez, Mexico.
Although McQueen was only fifty
years old, he lived life at full
throttle and on his own terms.
For his fans, McQueen will
always be the "King of Cool,"
but off-screen, McQueen was much
more than that. Actress Lee
Purcell got her first big break
in films due to McQueen.
McQueen hand-picked Purcell as
one of the stars of Adam At 6
A.M., ultimately released in
September 1970. Michael Douglas,
now a legend in his own right,
portrayed "Adam" in only his
second major role.
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Starry Mag
Lee
Purcell Interview / From Persons
Unknown
Q) What can you tell us about
your character Eleanor Sullivan
on the show "Persons Unknown?"
A) Eleanor is really unique.
You find out Eleanor's familial
relationship in the pilot
episode, but you have no idea if
she is a good person, an evil
person and what she is going to
do next...
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L.A. Times
A
salute to bravery and sacrifice
Lee was a
celebrity participant for the Memorial
Day Ceremony at L.A.
National Cemetery along
with fellow actors Powers Boothe,
Robert Davi, Robert
Forster, William
Lucking, J.R. Martinez,
Gerald McRaney, Joseph
C. Phillips, Jon Voight.
Gov. Schwarzenegger, Mayor
Villaraigosa and actor Jon
Voight help mark Memorial Day at
West Los Angeles National
Cemetery.
Hundreds of proud relatives and
friends of military veterans —
and many others simply paying
respects — crowded onto the
flag-filled burial ground to
hear Hollywood stars and
political leaders extol the
bravery and sacrifice of the men
and women interred there.
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Daily Variety
Hollywood Don't Surf!
A MacGillivray Freeman Films
production. Produced by Greg
MacGillivray, Lincoln Forrest
Phipps, Chris Kobin. Executive
producer, William S. Price III.
Directed by Greg MacGillivray,
Sam George. Written by George.
With: John Milius, Jan-Michael
Vincent, Gary Busey, William
Katt, Steven Spielberg, Quentin
Tarantino,
Lee Purcell,
Stacy Peralta, Peter Townend,
Robert Englund, Greg
MacGillivray, Nia Peeples,
Pamela Anderson, Laird Hamilton,
Greg Noll, Frankie Avalon, Kathy
Kohner.
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Beyond
Hollywood.com
McQuarrie's Persons Unknown to
Debut in June
Christopher McQuarrie's TV
series Persons Unknown
has gotten a premiere date from
NBC. The Prisoner-ish
mystery-thriller will be making
its debut on the peacock network
on Monday, June 7, at 9:00 PM
central time (10 pm PST), so
mark your calendars, kids.
The show stars the funny Alan
Ruck, Jason Wiles of Third Watch
fame, and Daisy Betts (Sea
Patrol) and follows a group of
strangers who must work together
to solve a puzzle after they
wake up inside a small ghost
town with no idea of how they
got there. They also discover
that they are being watched by
surveillance cameras, and that
any attempts to escape is not
recommended.
Also starring Chadwick Boseman,
Tina Holmes, Alan Smyth,
Lee
Purcell, and Reggie
Lee. Persons Unknown is brought
to you by Christopher McQuarrie
(Way of the Gun, The Usual
Suspects)
Variety
Lee Purcell
By
STACY DODD
Lee
Purcell (a two-time Emmy
Award Nominee) has booked a
recurring role in the upcoming
Fox television series “Persons
Unknown,” created by Oscar
winner Christopher McQuarrie.
Show follows four strangers who
wake up in a deserted town with
no recollection of how they got
there.
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Cult Film Freak
An Interview with Lee
Purcell
They don’t get much classier,
more versatile or as genuinely
talented as
Lee
Purcell, whose impressive
list of classic film roles
include “Mr. Majestyk”, “Big
Wednesday” and “Valley Girl”.
Among other projects, the
two-time Emmy nominated actress
(for “Long Road Home” and
“Secret Sins of the Father”) has
a terrific role in NBC’s
upcoming new 2009 TV-series
titled “Persons Unknown” created
by Oscar winner Christopher
McQuarrie.
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