Dick Purcell
Acting · Born 1905-08-06 · age 38 at death · 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.
Titles
The Bank Dick
Follow the Fleet
King of the Zombies
Bullets or Ballots
In Old California
Captain America
The Doorway to Hell
Arise, My Love
Nancy Drew… Detective
Ceiling Zero
X Marks the Spot
Flight Command
Alcatraz Island
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Drunk Driving
Mystery House
New Moon
No Hands on the Clock
Blackwell's Island
Public Enemy's Wife
I Live on Danger
Streets of New York
Trocadero
Men in Exile
Heroes in Blue
Reveille with Beverly
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Garden of the Moon
Valley of the Giants
Jailbreak
Aerial Gunner
Times Square Playboy
Bengal Tiger
Leave It to the Irish
Snowed Under
Irish Luck
King of Hockey
Bullets for O'Hara
Flying Blind
Broadway Musketeers
Accidents Will Happen
Idaho
High Explosive
Brides Are Like That
The Law in Her Hands
Timber Queen
Public Wedding
Breakdowns of 1938
Phantom Killer
Wine, Women and Horses
Air Devils
Draegerman Courage
Missing Witnesses
Freshman Love
Talent Scout
The Captain's Kid
While America Sleeps
No Place for a Lady
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Over the Wall