Melvin Purvis - Other Media

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  • Purvis was portrayed by Ben Johnson in the 1973 film Dillinger.
  • He was played by Geoffrey Binney, opposite Martin Sheen in the title role of the 1974 TV movie The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd.
  • Purvis was portrayed by Dale Robertson in two TV movies: Melvin Purvis, G-Man (1974) and The Kansas City Massacre (1975).
  • In the 1991 TV movie Dillinger, he was portrayed by Will Patton.
  • Purvis was originally portrayed by Chuck Wagner in the 2002 musical Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One.
  • In the 2009 film Public Enemies, Purvis is portrayed by Christian Bale.
  • In Kim Newman's 1997 alternate-history novel Back in the USSA, Purvis appears with Eliot Ness as an agent of the Federal Bureau of Ideology who are in pursuit of labor activist Tom Joad.

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