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