Dick Purcell
Acting

Dick Purcell

Born 6 August 1905 · Greenwich, Connecticut, USA · Died 10 April 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

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