Acting
Dick Purcell
1905 · Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
30 films
Bio
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.
Filmography
Captain America
Captain America / Grant Gardner
Follow the Fleet
Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
Tough Kid
'Red' Murphy
The Bank Dick
Mackley Q. Greene
In Old California
Joe Dawson
King of the Zombies
James 'Mac' McCarthy
Ceiling Zero
Smiley (as Dick Purcell)
Bullets or Ballots
Ed Driscoll
Valley of the Giants
Creel
Arise, My Love
Pink
Jailbreak
Ed Slayden
Aerial Gunner
Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine