Dick Purcell
Known for: Acting
Born: August 6, 1905
Died: April 10, 1944
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
King of the Zombies
1941
Mystery House
1938
Captain America
1944
Phantom Killer
1942
Men in Exile
1937
Navy Blues
1937
King of Hockey
1936
Heroes in Blue
1939
Drunk Driving
1939
While America Sleeps
1939
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
1943
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
Missing Witnesses
1937
Air Devils
1938
The Daredevil Drivers
1938
Tough Kid
1938
No Place for a Lady
1943
Flight Into Nowhere
1938
Blackwell's Island
1939
Reveille with Beverly
1943
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
X Marks the Spot
1942
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938
Accidents Will Happen
1938
Irish Luck
1939
Reported Missing
1937
Public Wedding
1937
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941
The Old Homestead
1942
No Hands on the Clock
1941
Over the Wall
1938
Leave It to the Irish
1944
Trocadero
1944
Jailbreak
1936
Streets of New York
1939
Two in a Taxi
1941
Arise, My Love
1940
Melody for Two
1937
I Live on Danger
1942
Bullets for O'Hara
1941
Man Hunt
1936
Alcatraz Island
1937
Torpedo Boat
1942
Aerial Gunner
1943
Bengal Tiger
1936
Times Square Playboy
1936
Brides Are Like That
1936
The Law in Her Hands
1936
Timber Queen
1944
The Captain's Kid
1936
Broadway Musketeers
1938
High Explosive
1943
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
1989
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Public Enemy's Wife
1936
In Old California
1942
Flying Blind
1941
Idaho
1943
The Bank Dick
1940
New Moon
1940
Flight Command
1940
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
Valley of the Giants
1938
Garden of the Moon
1938
Private Affairs
1940
Ceiling Zero
1936
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
Snowed Under
1936
Follow the Fleet
1936
Draegerman Courage
1937
Freshman Love
1936
The Doorway to Hell
1930
Talent Scout
1937
Breakdowns of 1938
1938