Actor
Dick Purcell
Born 1905 · 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.
Acting
The Bank Dick
Mackley Q. Greene · 1940
Follow the Fleet
Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited) · 1936
Bullets or Ballots
Ed Driscoll · 1936
Reported Missing
Paul Wayne · 1937
Man Hunt
Skip McHenry · 1936
The Doorway to Hell
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) · 1930
Arise, My Love
Pink · 1940
Nancy Drew… Detective
Keiffer · 1938
King of the Zombies
James 'Mac' McCarthy · 1941
Reveille with Beverly
Andy Adams · 1943
Captain America
Captain America / Grant Gardner · 1944
In Old California
Joe Dawson · 1942
New Moon
Alexander · 1940
Snowed Under
Bert (uncredited) · 1936
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Crandal · 1936
Ceiling Zero
Smiley (as Dick Purcell) · 1936
The Old Homestead
Scarf Lennin · 1942
Two in a Taxi
Bill Gratton · 1941
Garden of the Moon
Rick Fulton · 1938
Draegerman Courage
Trapped Draegerman (uncredited) · 1937
Penrod's Double Trouble
Tex Boyden · 1938
Torpedo Boat
Ralph Andrews · 1942
Valley of the Giants
Creel · 1938
Jailbreak
Ed Slayden · 1936