Dick Purcell
Known For
Acting
Born
1905-08-06 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Died
1944-04-10
Biography
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.
Most Known For
Bullets or Ballots
as Ed Driscoll
Tough Kid
as 'Red' Murphy
Captain America
as Captain America / Grant Gardner
In Old California
as Joe Dawson
Arise, My Love
as Pink
Reveille with Beverly
as Andy Adams
King of the Zombies
as James 'Mac' McCarthy
Aerial Gunner
as Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine
Breakdowns of 1938
as Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
Follow the Fleet
as Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
The Bank Dick
as Mackley Q. Greene
Over the Wall
as Ace Scanlon
New Moon
as Alexander
Nancy Drew… Detective
as Keiffer
Valley of the Giants
as Creel
Blackwell's Island
as Terry Walsh
Alcatraz Island
as David 'Harp' Santell
X Marks the Spot
as Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker
Private Affairs
as Dick Cartwright
Penrod's Double Trouble
as Tex Boyden