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Dick Purcell

Dick Purcell

ActingAugust 6, 1905(died age 38)Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

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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.

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Filmography (76)

Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes

Captain America

1944·Captain America / Grant Gardner

Leave It to the Irish

1944·Pat Burke

1944·Spike Nelson

Timber Queen

1944·Milt Holmes

Reveille with Beverly

1943·Andy Adams

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

1943·Johnny Smith

No Place for a Lady

1943·Randy Brooks

1943·Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine

1943·Duke Springer

Fighting Men: Crack That Tank

1943·Tank Instructor

The Old Homestead

1942·Scarf Lennin

1942·Edward Clarkk

X Marks the Spot

1942·Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker

I Live on Danger

1942·Norm Thompson

1942·Ralph Andrews

In Old California

1942·Joe Dawson

King of the Zombies

1941·James 'Mac' McCarthy

No Hands on the Clock

1941·Red Harris

Bullets for O'Hara

The Pittsburgh Kid

1941·Cliff Halliday

1941·Bob Fuller

1941·Bill Gratton

1940·Mackley Q. Greene

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

1940·Agent Melvin Pierce

1940·Alexander

1940·Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne

Private Affairs

1940·Dick Cartwright

Blackwell's Island

1939·Terry Walsh

1939·Steve Lanahan

1939·Terry Murphy

1939·John Jones

While America Sleeps

1939·Dave Miller

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

1939·Dick Purcell

Streets of New York

1939·T.P. 'Tap' Keenan

Nancy Drew… Detective

1938·Lance O'Leary

1938·Ace Scanlon

Valley of the Giants

Penrod's Double Trouble

1938·Tex Boyden

Accidents Will Happen

1938·Jim Faber

1938·Percy 'Slats' Harrington

The Daredevil Drivers

1938·Bill Foster

Garden of the Moon

1938·Rick Fulton

1938·'Red' Murphy

Flight Into Nowhere

1938·Bill Kellogg

Broadway Musketeers

1938·Vince Morrell

Breakdowns of 1938

1938·Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)

1937·Jimmy Carmody

Wine, Women and Horses

1937·George Mayhew

Missing Witnesses

1937·"Bull" Regan

1937·Mel Lynch

1937·Rusty Gibbs

Reported Missing

1937·Paul Wayne

1937·Joe Taylor

Alcatraz Island

1937·David 'Harp' Santell

1937·Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)

Draegerman Courage

1937·Trapped Draegerman (uncredited)

Bullets or Ballots

1936·Ed Driscoll

Times Square Playboy

1936·Wally Calhoun

The Case of the Velvet Claws

Brides Are Like That

1936·Dr. Randolph Jenkins (as Richard Purcell)

Public Enemy's Wife

1936·Gabby Dugan

Follow the Fleet

1936·Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)

The Law in Her Hands

1936·Ed Slayden

1936·Skip McHenry

1936·Radio Announcer (uncredited)

The Captain's Kid

1936·George Chester

1936·Smiley (as Dick Purcell)

1936·Nick DeLargo

1936·Bert (uncredited)

The Doorway to Hell

1930·Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)