Dick Purcell
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday6 August 1905
Died10 April 1944 (age 38)
Place of birthGreenwich, Connecticut, USA
Known credits76
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.
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
1989
Leave It to the Irish
1944 · Pat Burke
Trocadero
1944 · Spike Nelson
Captain America
1944 · Captain America / Grant Gardner
Timber Queen
1944 · Milt Holmes
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943 · Johnny Smith
High Explosive
1943 · Dave
Aerial Gunner
1943 · Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine
Idaho
1943 · Duke Springer
No Place for a Lady
1943 · Randy Brooks
Reveille with Beverly
1943 · Andy Adams
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
1943 · Tank Instructor
X Marks the Spot
1942 · Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker
Phantom Killer
1942 · Edward Clarkk
The Old Homestead
1942 · Scarf Lennin
I Live on Danger
1942 · Norm Thompson
In Old California
1942 · Joe Dawson
Torpedo Boat
1942 · Ralph Andrews
No Hands on the Clock
1941 · Red Harris
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941 · Cliff Halliday
Flying Blind
1941 · Bob Fuller
Bullets for O'Hara
1941 · Wicks
Two in a Taxi
1941 · Bill Gratton
King of the Zombies
1941 · James 'Mac' McCarthy
Flight Command
1940 · Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
The Bank Dick
1940 · Mackley Q. Greene
Arise, My Love
1940 · Pink
Private Affairs
1940 · Dick Cartwright
New Moon
1940 · Alexander
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940 · Agent Melvin Pierce
Heroes in Blue
1939 · Terry Murphy
Drunk Driving
1939 · John Jones
Irish Luck
1939 · Steve Lanahan
While America Sleeps
1939 · Dave Miller
Streets of New York
1939 · T.P. 'Tap' Keenan
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939 · Dick Purcell
Blackwell's Island
1939 · Terry Walsh
Breakdowns of 1938
1938 · Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tough Kid
1938 · 'Red' Murphy
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938 · Keiffer
Broadway Musketeers
1938 · Vince Morrell
Garden of the Moon
1938 · Rick Fulton
Valley of the Giants
1938 · Creel
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938 · Tex Boyden
Mystery House
1938 · Lance O'Leary
Air Devils
1938 · Percy 'Slats' Harrington
Flight Into Nowhere
1938 · Bill Kellogg
Accidents Will Happen
1938 · Jim Faber
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