Acting
Dick Purcell
Greenwich, Connecticut, USABorn 1905
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.
75
Films
0
TV Shows
Known For
75 Credits
Bullets or Ballots
as Ed Driscoll
1936
Tough Kid
as 'Red' Murphy
1938
Captain America
as Captain America / Grant Gardner
1944
In Old California
as Joe Dawson
1942
Reveille with Beverly
as Andy Adams
1943
Aerial Gunner
as Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine
1943
Over the Wall
as Ace Scanlon
1938
Flight Command
as Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
1940
Follow the Fleet
as Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
1936
Torpedo Boat
as Ralph Andrews
1942
Arise, My Love
as Pink
1940
Breakdowns of 1938
as Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938