Dick Purcell

Actor

Born: August 6, 1905 (38 years old)

Died: April 10, 1944

Place of birth: 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.

Filmography (33)

• The Bank Dick (1940, ★ 6.5)
• Bullets or Ballots (1936, ★ 6.6)
• New Moon (1940, ★ 6.5)
• Nancy Drew… Detective (1938, ★ 6.3)
• Reveille with Beverly (1943, ★ 7)
• The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936, ★ 6.8)
• Follow the Fleet (1936, ★ 6.8)
• King of the Zombies (1941, ★ 5.1)
• Blackwell's Island (1939, ★ 5)
• Flight Command (1940, ★ 5.6)
• Arise, My Love (1940, ★ 6.3)
• Captain America (1944, ★ 5.3)
• No Hands on the Clock (1941, ★ 4.9)
• The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943, ★ 5.4)
• Public Enemy's Wife (1936, ★ 5.8)
• Valley of the Giants (1938, ★ 6)
• I Live on Danger (1942, ★ 5.7)
• Garden of the Moon (1938, ★ 6.2)
• Jailbreak (1936, ★ 6.4)
• Drunk Driving (1939, ★ 5.4)
• Ceiling Zero (1936, ★ 5.8)
• The Doorway to Hell (1930, ★ 6.3)
• Times Square Playboy (1936, ★ 4.4)
• Mystery House (1938, ★ 4.4)
• Men in Exile (1937, ★ 4.2)
• Trocadero (1944, ★ 4.7)
• Alcatraz Island (1937, ★ 4.9)
• Aerial Gunner (1943, ★ 4.4)
• In Old California (1942, ★ 5.1)
• X Marks the Spot (1942, ★ 3.9)