Dick Purcell
Acting
1905-08-06 · 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.
Filmography
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
1989 · Movie
Leave It to the Irish
1944 · Movie
Trocadero
1944 · Movie
Captain America
1944 · Movie
Timber Queen
1944 · Movie
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943 · Movie
High Explosive
1943 · Movie
Aerial Gunner
1943 · Movie
Idaho
1943 · Movie
No Place for a Lady
1943 · Movie
Reveille with Beverly
1943 · Movie
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
1943 · Movie
X Marks the Spot
1942 · Movie
Phantom Killer
1942 · Movie
The Old Homestead
1942 · Movie
I Live on Danger
1942 · Movie
In Old California
1942 · Movie
Torpedo Boat
1942 · Movie
No Hands on the Clock
1941 · Movie
Flying Blind
1941 · Movie
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941 · Movie
Bullets for O'Hara
1941 · Movie
Two in a Taxi
1941 · Movie
King of the Zombies
1941 · Movie
Flight Command
1940 · Movie
The Bank Dick
1940 · Movie
Arise, My Love
1940 · Movie
Private Affairs
1940 · Movie
New Moon
1940 · Movie
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940 · Movie
Heroes in Blue
1939 · Movie
Drunk Driving
1939 · Movie
Irish Luck
1939 · Movie
While America Sleeps
1939 · Movie
Streets of New York
1939 · Movie
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939 · Movie
Blackwell's Island
1939 · Movie
Breakdowns of 1938
1938 · Movie
Tough Kid
1938 · Movie
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938 · Movie
Broadway Musketeers
1938 · Movie
Garden of the Moon
1938 · Movie
Valley of the Giants
1938 · Movie
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938 · Movie
Mystery House
1938 · Movie
Air Devils
1938 · Movie
Flight Into Nowhere
1938 · Movie
Accidents Will Happen
1938 · Movie
Over the Wall
1938 · Movie
The Daredevil Drivers
1938 · Movie
Missing Witnesses
1937 · Movie
Alcatraz Island
1937 · Movie
Wine, Women and Horses
1937 · Movie
Reported Missing
1937 · Movie
Talent Scout
1937 · Movie
Public Wedding
1937 · Movie
Draegerman Courage
1937 · Movie
Melody for Two
1937 · Movie
Men in Exile
1937 · Movie
Navy Blues
1937 · Movie
King of Hockey
1936 · Movie
The Captain's Kid
1936 · Movie
Jailbreak
1936 · Movie
Bengal Tiger
1936 · Movie
Public Enemy's Wife
1936 · Movie
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936 · Movie
Bullets or Ballots
1936 · Movie
The Law in Her Hands
1936 · Movie
Times Square Playboy
1936 · Movie
Brides Are Like That
1936 · Movie
Snowed Under
1936 · Movie
Follow the Fleet
1936 · Movie
Man Hunt
1936 · Movie
Freshman Love
1936 · Movie
Ceiling Zero
1936 · Movie
The Doorway to Hell
1930 · Movie