Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 06, 1905
Died
Apr 10, 1944
Place of Birth
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Credits
76 titles
Dick Purcell
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.
Known For
Filmography
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
Leave It to the Irish
Pat Burke
Trocadero
Spike Nelson
Captain America
Captain America / Grant Gardner
Timber Queen
Milt Holmes
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Johnny Smith
High Explosive
Dave
Aerial Gunner
Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine
Idaho
Duke Springer
No Place for a Lady
Randy Brooks
Reveille with Beverly
Andy Adams
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
Tank Instructor
X Marks the Spot
Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker
Phantom Killer
Edward Clarkk
The Old Homestead
Scarf Lennin
I Live on Danger
Norm Thompson
In Old California
Joe Dawson
Torpedo Boat
Ralph Andrews
No Hands on the Clock
Red Harris
Flying Blind
Bob Fuller
The Pittsburgh Kid
Cliff Halliday
Bullets for O'Hara
Wicks
Two in a Taxi
Bill Gratton
King of the Zombies
James 'Mac' McCarthy
Flight Command
Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
The Bank Dick
Mackley Q. Greene
Arise, My Love
Pink
Private Affairs
Dick Cartwright
New Moon
Alexander
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Agent Melvin Pierce
Heroes in Blue
Terry Murphy
Drunk Driving
John Jones
Irish Luck
Steve Lanahan
While America Sleeps
Dave Miller
Streets of New York
T.P. 'Tap' Keenan
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Dick Purcell
Blackwell's Island
Terry Walsh
Breakdowns of 1938
Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tough Kid
'Red' Murphy
Nancy Drew… Detective
Keiffer
Broadway Musketeers
Vince Morrell
Garden of the Moon
Rick Fulton
Valley of the Giants
Creel
Penrod's Double Trouble
Tex Boyden
Mystery House
Lance O'Leary
Air Devils
Percy 'Slats' Harrington
Flight Into Nowhere
Bill Kellogg
Accidents Will Happen
Jim Faber
Over the Wall
Ace Scanlon
The Daredevil Drivers
Bill Foster