Dick Purcell
Born August 6, 1905 · Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
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.
Notable Appearances
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Captain America
King of the Zombies
Breakdowns of 1938
Nancy Drew… Detective
Follow the Fleet
Tough Kid
Bullets or Ballots
Valley of the Giants
New Moon
Idaho
King of Hockey
Leave It to the Irish
Wine, Women and Horses
Two in a Taxi
Man Hunt
The Doorway to Hell
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Blackwell's Island
Mystery House
The Case of the Velvet Claws
The Law in Her Hands
No Place for a Lady
I Live on Danger
Jailbreak
Alcatraz Island
No Hands on the Clock
Missing Witnesses
Ceiling Zero
Freshman Love
Talent Scout
Penrod's Double Trouble
Accidents Will Happen
Air Devils
Over the Wall
Public Enemy's Wife
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Phantom Killer
Men in Exile
Aerial Gunner
Flying Blind
The Daredevil Drivers
Bullets for O'Hara
Private Affairs
The Captain's Kid
While America Sleeps
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Timber Queen
Broadway Musketeers
X Marks the Spot
Public Wedding
Garden of the Moon
Reveille with Beverly
Bengal Tiger
Brides Are Like That
Melody for Two
Drunk Driving
Irish Luck
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
Navy Blues
Reported Missing
High Explosive
Flight Into Nowhere
Torpedo Boat
The Pittsburgh Kid
Streets of New York
Times Square Playboy
Draegerman Courage
Heroes in Blue
Snowed Under
Trocadero
The Old Homestead
