Dick Purcell
Known for: Acting
Born: August 5, 1905 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA - Died: April 9, 1944
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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The Bank Dick
Mackley Q. Greene
The Old Homestead
Scarf Lennin
King of the Zombies
James 'Mac' McCarthy
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Agent Melvin Pierce
Bullets or Ballots
Ed Driscoll
New Moon
Alexander
Nancy Drew… Detective
Keiffer
Blackwell's Island
Terry Walsh
Times Square Playboy
Wally Calhoun
Mystery House
Lance O'Leary
Flight Command
Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
Reveille with Beverly
Andy Adams
Captain America
Captain America / Grant Gardner
No Hands on the Clock
Red Harris
Arise, My Love
Pink
Over the Wall
Ace Scanlon
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Johnny Smith
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Crandal
Brides Are Like That
Dr. Randolph Jenkins (as Richard Purcell)
Men in Exile
Jimmy Carmody
Wine, Women and Horses
George Mayhew
Public Enemy's Wife
Louie
Missing Witnesses
"Bull" Regan
X Marks the Spot
Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker