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