Dick Purcell
Acting
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.
Films (76)
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
1989
Leave It to the Irish
1944
Trocadero
1944
Captain America
1944
Timber Queen
1944
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
High Explosive
1943
Aerial Gunner
1943
Idaho
1943
No Place for a Lady
1943
Reveille with Beverly
1943
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
1943
X Marks the Spot
1942
Phantom Killer
1942
The Old Homestead
1942
I Live on Danger
1942
In Old California
1942
Torpedo Boat
1942
No Hands on the Clock
1941
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941
Flying Blind
1941
Bullets for O'Hara
1941
Two in a Taxi
1941
King of the Zombies
1941
Flight Command
1940
The Bank Dick
1940
Arise, My Love
1940
Private Affairs
1940
New Moon
1940
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940
Heroes in Blue
1939
Drunk Driving
1939
Irish Luck
1939
While America Sleeps
1939
Streets of New York
1939
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
Blackwell's Island
1939
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
Tough Kid
1938
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938
Broadway Musketeers
1938
Garden of the Moon
1938
Valley of the Giants
1938
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938
Mystery House
1938
Air Devils
1938
Flight Into Nowhere
1938
Accidents Will Happen
1938
Over the Wall
1938
The Daredevil Drivers
1938
Missing Witnesses
1937
Alcatraz Island
1937
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
Reported Missing
1937
Talent Scout
1937
Public Wedding
1937
Draegerman Courage
1937
Melody for Two
1937
Men in Exile
1937
Navy Blues
1937
King of Hockey
1936
The Captain's Kid
1936
Jailbreak
1936
Bengal Tiger
1936
Public Enemy's Wife
1936
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
Bullets or Ballots
1936
The Law in Her Hands
1936
Times Square Playboy
1936
Brides Are Like That
1936
Snowed Under
1936
Follow the Fleet
1936
Man Hunt
1936
Freshman Love
1936
Ceiling Zero
1936
The Doorway to Hell
1930