Dick Purcell
Acting
August 6, 1905
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
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.
Movies
Streets of New York
1939
Drunk Driving
1939
Reported Missing
1937
Melody for Two
1937
Public Wedding
1937
Irish Luck
1939
Ceiling Zero
1936
Follow the Fleet
1936
The Old Homestead
1942
Public Enemy's Wife
1936
Air Devils
1938
Idaho
1943
Snowed Under
1936
Navy Blues
1937
Torpedo Boat
1942
Phantom Killer
1942
Tough Kid
1938
Alcatraz Island
1937
New Moon
1940
Timber Queen
1944