Dick Purcell
Acting
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
1940
Private Affairs
1940 · movie
1944
Captain America
1944 · movie
1936
Follow the Fleet
1936 · movie
1938
Broadway Musketeers
1938 · movie
1938
Tough Kid
1938 · movie
1936
Bullets or Ballots
1936 · movie
1937
Public Wedding
1937 · movie
1942
In Old California
1942 · movie
1938
Air Devils
1938 · movie
1943
Aerial Gunner
1943 · movie
1938
Breakdowns of 1938
1938 · movie
1939
Irish Luck
1939 · movie
1937
Alcatraz Island
1937 · movie
1939
Heroes in Blue
1939 · movie
1938
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938 · movie
1936
Public Enemy's Wife
1936 · movie
1943
High Explosive
1943 · movie
1936
Jailbreak
1936 · movie
1940
The Bank Dick
1940 · movie
1937
Missing Witnesses
1937 · movie
1939
Drunk Driving
1939 · movie
1944
Timber Queen
1944 · movie
1943
No Place for a Lady
1943 · movie
1938
Garden of the Moon
1938 · movie
1943
Reveille with Beverly
1943 · movie
1936
Snowed Under
1936 · movie
1940
Arise, My Love
1940 · movie
1942
Phantom Killer
1942 · movie
1940
Flight Command
1940 · movie
1936
Ceiling Zero
1936 · movie