
Dick Purcell (born Richard Gerold Purcell, Jr.) was an American screen and stage actor. He is best known for playing Marvel Comics' Captain America in the 1944 film serial. The serial was released on February 5, and Purcell, age 38, died two months later, on 10 April 1944, the result of a fatal heart attack.

Bullets or Ballots
MOVIE • 1936

Arise, My Love
MOVIE • 1940

Nancy Drew… Detective
MOVIE • 1938

Valley of the Giants
MOVIE • 1938

New Moon
MOVIE • 1940

Tough Kid
MOVIE • 1938

The Bank Dick
MOVIE • 1940

Leave It to the Irish
MOVIE • 1944

Captain America
MOVIE • 1944

Flight Command
MOVIE • 1940

King of the Zombies
MOVIE • 1941

Broadway Musketeers
MOVIE • 1938

Talent Scout
MOVIE • 1937

Irish Luck
MOVIE • 1939

Timber Queen
MOVIE • 1944

Ceiling Zero
MOVIE • 1936

I Live on Danger
MOVIE • 1942

In Old California
MOVIE • 1942