Dick Purcell
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1905-08-06 – 1944-04-10
Place of birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
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
The Bank Dick
1940Mackley Q. Greene
The Old Homestead
1942Scarf Lennin
King of the Zombies
1941James 'Mac' McCarthy
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940Agent Melvin Pierce
Bullets or Ballots
1936Ed Driscoll
New Moon
1940Alexander
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938Keiffer
Blackwell's Island
1939Terry Walsh
Times Square Playboy
1936Wally Calhoun
Mystery House
1938Lance O'Leary
Flight Command
1940Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
Reveille with Beverly
1943Andy Adams
Captain America
1944Captain America / Grant Gardner
No Hands on the Clock
1941Red Harris
Arise, My Love
1940Pink
Over the Wall
1938Ace Scanlon
Phantom Killer
1942Edward Clarkk
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943Johnny Smith
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936Crandal