Dick Purcell

Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 6, 1905
Day of Death: April 10, 1944 (39 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
1944
1943
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1939
1938

Actor Keiffer
Nancy Drew… Detective

Actor Lance O'Leary
Mystery House

Actor Ace Scanlon
Over the Wall

Actor Creel
Valley of the Giants

Actor Tex Boyden
Penrod's Double Trouble

Actor Jim Faber
Accidents Will Happen

Actor Percy 'Slats' Harrington
Air Devils

Actor Bill Foster
The Daredevil Drivers

Actor Rick Fulton
Garden of the Moon

Actor 'Red' Murphy
Tough Kid

Actor Bill Kellogg
Flight Into Nowhere

Actor Vince Morrell
Broadway Musketeers

Actor Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1938
1937

Actor Jimmy Carmody
Men in Exile

Actor George Mayhew
Wine, Women and Horses

Actor "Bull" Regan
Missing Witnesses

Actor Mel Lynch
Melody for Two

Actor Rusty Gibbs
Navy Blues

Actor Paul Wayne
Reported Missing

Actor Joe Taylor
Public Wedding

Actor David 'Harp' Santell
Alcatraz Island

Actor Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
Talent Scout

Actor Trapped Draegerman (uncredited)
Draegerman Courage
1936

Actor Ed Driscoll
Bullets or Ballots

Actor Wally Calhoun
Times Square Playboy

Actor Crandal
The Case of the Velvet Claws

Actor Dr. Randolph Jenkins (as Richard Purcell)
Brides Are Like That

Actor Louie
Public Enemy's Wife

Actor Gabby Dugan
King of Hockey

Actor Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
Follow the Fleet

Actor Marty
The Law in Her Hands

Actor Ed Slayden
Jailbreak

Actor Skip McHenry
Man Hunt

Actor Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Freshman Love

Actor George Chester
The Captain's Kid

Actor Smiley (as Dick Purcell)
Ceiling Zero

Actor Nick DeLargo
Bengal Tiger

Actor Bert (uncredited)
Snowed Under