Acting
Dick Purcell
Also Known As: Richard Gerold Purcell Jr., Richard Gerold Purcell, Richard G. Purcell
Birth Date
August 6, 1905
Death Date
April 10, 1944
(passed away at 38)
Place of Birth
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
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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.
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Captain America
Captain America / Grant Gardner
1944
Follow the Fleet
Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
1936
Bullets or Ballots
Ed Driscoll
1936
The Bank Dick
Mackley Q. Greene
1940
X Marks the Spot
Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker
1942
Garden of the Moon
Rick Fulton
1938
Valley of the Giants
Creel
1938
No Hands on the Clock
Red Harris
1941
King of the Zombies
James 'Mac' McCarthy
1941
Public Enemy's Wife
Louie
1936
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Agent Melvin Pierce
1940
Streets of New York
T.P. 'Tap' Keenan
1939
Wine, Women and Horses
George Mayhew
1937
Blackwell's Island
Terry Walsh
1939
Penrod's Double Trouble
Tex Boyden
1938
In Old California
Joe Dawson
1942
Bullets for O'Hara
Wicks
1941
The Doorway to Hell
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1930
The Law in Her Hands
Marty
1936
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Dick Purcell
1939