Dick Purcell
Known for: Actor
Born: 6 August 1905, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Died: 10 April 1944
Credits: 60+ titles
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.
Filmography
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
Leave It to the Irish
Trocadero
Captain America
Timber Queen
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
High Explosive
Aerial Gunner
Idaho
No Place for a Lady
Reveille with Beverly
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
X Marks the Spot
Phantom Killer
The Old Homestead
I Live on Danger
In Old California
Torpedo Boat
No Hands on the Clock
Flying Blind
The Pittsburgh Kid
Bullets for O'Hara
Two in a Taxi
King of the Zombies
Flight Command
The Bank Dick
Arise, My Love
Private Affairs
New Moon
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Heroes in Blue
Drunk Driving
Irish Luck
While America Sleeps
Streets of New York
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Blackwell's Island
Breakdowns of 1938
Tough Kid
Nancy Drew… Detective
Broadway Musketeers
Garden of the Moon
Valley of the Giants
Penrod's Double Trouble
Mystery House
Air Devils
Flight Into Nowhere
Accidents Will Happen
Over the Wall
The Daredevil Drivers
Missing Witnesses
Alcatraz Island
Wine, Women and Horses
Reported Missing
Talent Scout
Public Wedding
Draegerman Courage
Melody for Two
Men in Exile
Navy Blues