Nathan Purdee

Overview

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Birthday
Aug 06, 1950 (74 years old)

Nathan Purdee

Known For

Killian & the Comeback Kids
2h 18m
Movie 2020

Killian & the Comeback Kids

Forced to return to his struggling hometown after an expensive college degree, Killian gathers former childhood friends to audition for a music festival coming to their once prosperous steel town.

The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
1h 4m
Movie 2002

The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'

Featuring inverviews from: Afrika Bambaataa, Ashford & Simpson, Jackson Browne, Kim Burell, Taylor Dayne, Carmen Electra, Faith Evans, Roberta Flack, Joel Gray, Kc & the Sunshine Band, Eartha Kitt, Patti Labelle, Queen Latifah and more?

The Return of Superfly
1h 35m
Movie 1990

The Return of Superfly

In this third entry in the Superfly films, Priest returns to New York from Paris to find who is responsible for his friend's murder. With a couple of new friends, he attempts to bring the killers to justice while trying not to get into criminal activity like he did years ago.

Biography

Nathan Purdee (born August 6, 1950 in Tampa, Florida) is an American serial actor. Purdee's father was an officer in theUnited States Air Force, and the family moved around many times. After spending formative years in Washington, D.C.,Bakersfield, California, and Kaiserslautern, Germany, he graduated from high school in Denver, Colorado. He now lives in Easton, Pennsylvania He first rose to prominence as mobster-turned-private investigator Nathan Hastings on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, a role he portrayed from 1985 to 1992. His involvement on Y&R (he was one of only two black cast members on the show in the late 1980s) paved the way for more African American additions to the cast. He left Y&R in December 1991 and moved to New York in January 1992 to play the role of District Attorney Hank Gannon on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, a role he would portray until 2003. Between "Y&R" and "OLTL" he portrayed Youngblood "Superfly" Priest in "The Return of Superfly," the third and final installment in the classic "Superfly" trilogy. [1] On February 11, 2009 it was announced he would be returning to One Life to Live in April 2009. He is President of the film and multimedia production company Karmic Release Ltd.

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