Dick Purcell

DOB: 1905-08-06

DOD: 1944-04-10

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.

Starred In

1940
Movie

The Bank Dick

1942
Movie

The Old Homestead

1936
Movie

Bullets or Ballots

1940
Movie

New Moon

1939
Movie

Blackwell's Island

1938
Movie

Mystery House

1940
Movie

Flight Command

1944
Movie

Captain America

1940
Movie

Arise, My Love

1938
Movie

Over the Wall

1942
Movie

Phantom Killer

1937
Movie

Men in Exile

1937
Movie

Missing Witnesses

1942
Movie

X Marks the Spot

1937
Movie

Melody for Two

1937
Movie

Navy Blues

1936
Movie

King of Hockey

1944
Movie

Trocadero

1942
Movie

I Live on Danger

1939
Movie

Irish Luck

1936
Movie

Follow the Fleet

1938
Movie

Air Devils

1939
Movie

Heroes in Blue

1944
Movie

Timber Queen

1937
Movie

Reported Missing

1941
Movie

Bullets for O'Hara

1938
Movie

Garden of the Moon

1937
Movie

Public Wedding

1936
Movie

Jailbreak

1936
Movie

Man Hunt

1938
Movie

Tough Kid

1937
Movie

Alcatraz Island

1941
Movie

The Pittsburgh Kid

1942
Movie

Torpedo Boat

1943
Movie

Aerial Gunner

1942
Movie

In Old California

1936
Movie

Freshman Love

1937
Movie

Talent Scout

1936
Movie

The Captain's Kid

1941
Movie

Flying Blind

1939
Movie

Drunk Driving

1943
Movie

Idaho

1938
Movie

Breakdowns of 1938

1936
Movie

Ceiling Zero

1940
Movie

Private Affairs

1936
Movie

Bengal Tiger

1937
Movie

Draegerman Courage

1941
Movie

Two in a Taxi

1943
Movie

High Explosive

1936
Movie

Snowed Under