Dick Purcell
Acting
Born 1905-08-06
Died 1944-04-10
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
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Acting
59 credits
The Bank Dick
In Old California
Bullets or Ballots
Captain America
Arise, My Love
Tough Kid
Follow the Fleet
Flight Command
Valley of the Giants
King of the Zombies
Nancy Drew… Detective
Breakdowns of 1938
New Moon
Idaho
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
X Marks the Spot
Wine, Women and Horses
Missing Witnesses
Public Wedding
Brides Are Like That
Private Affairs
Snowed Under
The Old Homestead
Alcatraz Island
Men in Exile
Over the Wall
Garden of the Moon
Timber Queen
Blackwell's Island
Ceiling Zero
Man Hunt
Flight Into Nowhere
Jailbreak
Public Enemy's Wife
The Law in Her Hands
No Place for a Lady
The Daredevil Drivers
The Doorway to Hell
Talent Scout
No Hands on the Clock
Reveille with Beverly
Freshman Love
King of Hockey
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Irish Luck
Broadway Musketeers
Flying Blind
Melody for Two
Two in a Taxi
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Navy Blues
Air Devils
Streets of New York
Bullets for O'Hara
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Accidents Will Happen
I Live on Danger
Leave It to the Irish
The Captain's Kid
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