Dick Purcell
Acting · 38 years old
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
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
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
Reveille with Beverly
Andy Adams
Snowed Under
Bert (uncredited)
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Crandal
Follow the Fleet
Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
Bullets or Ballots
Ed Driscoll
New Moon
Alexander
Draegerman Courage
Trapped Draegerman (uncredited)
The Bank Dick
Mackley Q. Greene
Jailbreak
Ed Slayden
Nancy Drew… Detective
Keiffer
The Doorway to Hell
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Arise, My Love
Pink
Garden of the Moon
Rick Fulton
Valley of the Giants
Creel
Penrod's Double Trouble
Tex Boyden
Accidents Will Happen
Jim Faber
Tough Kid
'Red' Murphy
No Place for a Lady
Randy Brooks
Torpedo Boat
Ralph Andrews