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Dick Purcell

Acting · Born August 6, 1905 · 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.

Dick Purcell movies and shows

  • Captain America1944
  • King of the Zombies1941
  • Arise, My Love1940
  • The Bank Dick1940
  • Follow the Fleet1936
  • Valley of the Giants1938
  • Bullets or Ballots1936
  • In Old California1942
  • Breakdowns of 19381938
  • Tough Kid1938
  • The Doorway to Hell1930
  • Outside the Three-Mile Limit1940
  • Aerial Gunner1943
  • The Law in Her Hands1936
  • Men in Exile1937
  • New Moon1940
  • Streets of New York1939
  • Freshman Love1936
  • Blackwell's Island1939
  • No Place for a Lady1943
  • Garden of the Moon1938
  • Snowed Under1936
  • King of Hockey1936
  • The Case of the Velvet Claws1936