Dick Purcell
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.
76 acting credits
Acting · 76
Captain America
1944
Public Wedding
1937
Flight Command
1940
Follow the Fleet
1936
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Freshman Love
1936
Idaho
1943
Valley of the Giants
1938
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
Alcatraz Island
1937
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
Reveille with Beverly
1943
Phantom Killer
1942
Times Square Playboy
1936
Aerial Gunner
1943
Draegerman Courage
1937
The Bank Dick
1940
In Old California
1942
Garden of the Moon
1938
Arise, My Love
1940
Ceiling Zero
1936
The Doorway to Hell
1930
Broadway Musketeers
1938
Public Enemy's Wife
1936
Man Hunt
1936
King of the Zombies
1941
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940
Private Affairs
1940
The Captain's Kid
1936
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
Trocadero
1944
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
Streets of New York
1939
Blackwell's Island
1939
Bengal Tiger
1936
Melody for Two
1937
Mystery House
1938
New Moon
1940
Jailbreak
1936
Snowed Under
1936
Air Devils
1938
The Law in Her Hands
1936
No Place for a Lady
1943
Missing Witnesses
1937
Men in Exile
1937
Flying Blind
1941
Over the Wall
1938
Talent Scout
1937
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938
Bullets for O'Hara
1941
King of Hockey
1936
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941
Brides Are Like That
1936
Tough Kid
1938
Timber Queen
1944
I Live on Danger
1942
Flight Into Nowhere
1938
X Marks the Spot
1942
Irish Luck
1939
No Hands on the Clock
1941
Torpedo Boat
1942
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938
Navy Blues
1937
High Explosive
1943
Accidents Will Happen
1938
The Old Homestead
1942
Heroes in Blue
1939
Reported Missing
1937
Drunk Driving
1939
Leave It to the Irish
1944
While America Sleeps
1939
The Daredevil Drivers
1938
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
1989
Two in a Taxi
1941
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
1943