[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Dirk Capel was born in Sweden on August 7, 1923. He was a regular for the Dutch Rex Films between 1944 and 1964. For Henk van der Linden he appeared in 21 films for Rex Films and 7 for van der Linden.
His only Euro-western was for the Dutch children’s western “De jongen uit het wilde westen” (Adventures in the Wild West) in 1963 as the outlaw leader.
In 19993 while vacationing in the United States Dirk was a survivor of the Amtrak’s Sunset Limited train wreck in Saraland, Alabama. The train was traveling from Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida. Capel had slipped off his shoes to get comfortable for the overnight leg of his journey. He lost his luggage, money, passport and tickets in the wreckage. By day’s end, he was wearing Red Cross-donated sneakers. The nightmarish wreck occurred at 3 a.m. just minutes after the train’s had left the Mobile, Alabama station. Upon crossing 500 foot long bridge built in 1909 the train’s locomotives plunged off the bridge and exploded one of the passenger cars was swallowed by the water of Bayou Canot and a second car was partially submerged. 41 victims were pulled from the water. Another seven were pulled from the wreckage the following day.
Dirk died sometime in 2010 at the age of 87.
CAPEL, Dirk [8/7/1923 – 2010] – film actor.
Adventures in the Wild West – 1963 (outlaw leader)
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