
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