Dick Purcell
1905-08-06 (1905)Greenwich, Connecticut, USAActing
Biography
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.
Known For
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