Acting
Dick Purcell
Born 1905-08-06 in 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.
Movies and TV shows
In Old California
1942
The Bank Dick
1940
Arise, My Love
1940
Flight Command
1940
Captain America
1944
King of the Zombies
1941
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938
Follow the Fleet
1936
Tough Kid
1938
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Valley of the Giants
1938
New Moon
1940
Idaho
1943
King of Hockey
1936
Leave It to the Irish
1944
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
Two in a Taxi
1941
Man Hunt
1936
The Doorway to Hell
1930
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
Blackwell's Island
1939
Mystery House
1938
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
The Law in Her Hands
1936
No Place for a Lady
1943
I Live on Danger
1942
Jailbreak
1936
Alcatraz Island
1937
No Hands on the Clock
1941