Dick Purcell

Actor

Born: August 6, 1905
Died: April 10, 1944 (age 38)
From: 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.

Filmography (76)

Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes (1989)
Leave It to the Irish (1944)
Pat Burke
Trocadero (1944)
Spike Nelson
Captain America (1944)
Captain America / Grant Gardner
Timber Queen (1944)
Milt Holmes
The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)
Johnny Smith
High Explosive (1943)
Dave
Aerial Gunner (1943)
Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine
Idaho (1943)
Duke Springer
No Place for a Lady (1943)
Randy Brooks
Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Andy Adams
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank (1943)
Tank Instructor
X Marks the Spot (1942)
Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker
Phantom Killer (1942)
Edward Clarkk
The Old Homestead (1942)
Scarf Lennin
I Live on Danger (1942)
Norm Thompson
In Old California (1942)
Joe Dawson
Torpedo Boat (1942)
Ralph Andrews
No Hands on the Clock (1941)
Red Harris
The Pittsburgh Kid (1941)
Cliff Halliday
Flying Blind (1941)
Bob Fuller
Bullets for O'Hara (1941)
Wicks
Two in a Taxi (1941)
Bill Gratton
King of the Zombies (1941)
James 'Mac' McCarthy
Flight Command (1940)
Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
The Bank Dick (1940)
Mackley Q. Greene
Arise, My Love (1940)
Pink
Private Affairs (1940)
Dick Cartwright
New Moon (1940)
Alexander
Outside the Three-Mile Limit (1940)
Agent Melvin Pierce