Dick Purcell
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1905-08-06
Place of Birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Popularity: 0.4
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 Filmography
Follow the Fleet
1936
Captain America
1944
In Old California
1942
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Flight Command
1940
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
Reveille with Beverly
1943
Arise, My Love
1940
Aerial Gunner
1943
Over the Wall
1938
Freshman Love
1936
New Moon
1940
No Hands on the Clock
1941
Mystery House
1938
High Explosive
1943
Irish Luck
1939
The Bank Dick
1940
Valley of the Giants
1938
Timber Queen
1944
Idaho
1943
X Marks the Spot
1942
Broadway Musketeers
1938
The Doorway to Hell
1930
Man Hunt
1936
King of the Zombies
1941
Missing Witnesses
1937
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938
Melody for Two
1937
Ceiling Zero
1936
The Law in Her Hands
1936
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941
Tough Kid
1938
The Captain's Kid
1936
Private Affairs
1940
King of Hockey
1936
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938
Blackwell's Island
1939
No Place for a Lady
1943
Snowed Under
1936
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
Draegerman Courage
1937
Public Enemy's Wife
1936
Drunk Driving
1939
Garden of the Moon
1938
Alcatraz Island
1937
Talent Scout
1937
Public Wedding
1937
I Live on Danger
1942
Heroes in Blue
1939
Phantom Killer
1942
Brides Are Like That
1936
Streets of New York
1939
Bengal Tiger
1936
Bullets for O'Hara
1941
The Old Homestead
1942
Torpedo Boat
1942
Air Devils
1938
Trocadero
1944
Flying Blind
1941
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
The Daredevil Drivers
1938
Times Square Playboy
1936
Two in a Taxi
1941
Accidents Will Happen
1938
Flight Into Nowhere
1938
Navy Blues
1937
Jailbreak
1936
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
1989
Leave It to the Irish
1944
Reported Missing
1937
Men in Exile
1937
While America Sleeps
1939