Dick Purcell
August 6, 1905(38 at death)|Died April 10, 1944
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA|Acting
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 (76)
8.0
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
1989
4.4
Leave It to the Irish
1944
5.1
Trocadero
1944
5.4
Captain America
1944
6.0
Timber Queen
1944
5.7
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
6.3
High Explosive
1943
5.0
Aerial Gunner
1943
6.3
Idaho
1943
6.0
No Place for a Lady
1943
7.5
Reveille with Beverly
1943
6.0
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
1943
4.4
X Marks the Spot
1942
5.2
Phantom Killer
1942
8.0
The Old Homestead
1942
6.1
I Live on Danger
1942
5.3
In Old California
1942
7.5
Torpedo Boat
1942
5.6
No Hands on the Clock
1941
7.0
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941
4.6
Flying Blind
1941
5.0
Bullets for O'Hara
1941
8.0
Two in a Taxi
1941
5.2
King of the Zombies
1941
5.9
Flight Command
1940
6.5
The Bank Dick
1940
6.3
Arise, My Love
1940
7.0
Private Affairs
1940
6.9
New Moon
1940
5.7
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940
4.9
Heroes in Blue
1939
5.8
Drunk Driving
1939
6.4
Irish Luck
1939
6.7
While America Sleeps
1939
5.4
Streets of New York
1939
4.0
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
5.5
Blackwell's Island
1939
5.8
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
6.5
Tough Kid
1938
6.5
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938
4.4
Broadway Musketeers
1938
6.8
Garden of the Moon
1938
6.7
Valley of the Giants
1938
7.5
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938
4.8
Mystery House
1938
4.3
Air Devils
1938
5.3
Flight Into Nowhere
1938
6.3
Accidents Will Happen
1938
5.7
Over the Wall
1938
6.0
The Daredevil Drivers
1938
7.0
Missing Witnesses
1937
5.1
Alcatraz Island
1937
5.3
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
10.0
Reported Missing
1937
6.7
Talent Scout
1937
6.0
Public Wedding
1937
7.3
Draegerman Courage
1937
7.0
Melody for Two
1937
5.0
Men in Exile
1937
6.0
Navy Blues
1937
5.4
King of Hockey
1936
6.7
The Captain's Kid
1936
6.7
Jailbreak
1936
4.8
Bengal Tiger
1936
6.4
Public Enemy's Wife
1936
7.2
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
6.6
Bullets or Ballots
1936
6.0
The Law in Her Hands
1936
4.8
Times Square Playboy
1936
6.1
Brides Are Like That
1936
7.4
Snowed Under
1936
6.8
Follow the Fleet
1936
10.0
Man Hunt
1936
7.0
Freshman Love
1936
5.9
Ceiling Zero
1936
6.5
The Doorway to Hell
1930