Dick Purcell
Born: 1905-08-06
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.
Known For
Drunk Driving
1939★ 5.4
Streets of New York
1939★ 4.8
Public Wedding
1937★ 5.7
Reported Missing
1937★ 0.0
Irish Luck
1939★ 5.8
Melody for Two
1937★ 0.0
Air Devils
1938★ 2.3
Ceiling Zero
1936★ 5.8
Idaho
1943★ 5.7
Snowed Under
1936★ 7.0
Navy Blues
1937★ 5.0
Phantom Killer
1942★ 4.5
Torpedo Boat
1942★ 6.0
The Old Homestead
1942★ 0.0
Follow the Fleet
1936★ 6.8
Tough Kid
1938★ 6.0
Timber Queen
1944★ 5.7
Alcatraz Island
1937★ 4.9
Public Enemy's Wife
1936★ 5.8
New Moon
1940★ 6.5
Draegerman Courage
1937★ 6.5
Mystery House
1938★ 4.4
The Bank Dick
1940★ 6.5
Bullets or Ballots
1936★ 6.6
Valley of the Giants
1938★ 6.0
King of the Zombies
1941★ 5.1
Two in a Taxi
1941★ 0.0
King of Hockey
1936★ 5.0
Arise, My Love
1940★ 6.3
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938★ 6.3
Captain America
1944★ 5.3
In Old California
1942★ 5.1
Over the Wall
1938★ 5.0
While America Sleeps
1939★ 6.0
Blackwell's Island
1939★ 5.0
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939★ 4.0
Accidents Will Happen
1938★ 6.0
Breakdowns of 1938
1938★ 4.7
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940★ 4.0
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941★ 0.0
Brides Are Like That
1936★ 4.8
Flight Command
1940★ 5.6
I Live on Danger
1942★ 5.7
No Place for a Lady
1943★ 6.0
Heroes in Blue
1939★ 4.0
Reveille with Beverly
1943★ 7.0
The Doorway to Hell
1930★ 6.3
The Law in Her Hands
1936★ 5.0
Flight Into Nowhere
1938★ 4.0
No Hands on the Clock
1941★ 4.9
Jailbreak
1936★ 6.4
High Explosive
1943★ 5.7
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936★ 6.8
Broadway Musketeers
1938★ 3.5
Bengal Tiger
1936★ 4.2
Garden of the Moon
1938★ 6.2
Aerial Gunner
1943★ 4.4
Man Hunt
1936★ 0.0
Talent Scout
1937★ 6.0
Missing Witnesses
1937★ 5.5
Trocadero
1944★ 4.7
Men in Exile
1937★ 4.2
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938★ 6.0
Flying Blind
1941★ 3.3
The Daredevil Drivers
1938★ 5.0
The Captain's Kid
1936★ 6.0
Wine, Women and Horses
1937★ 4.3
Private Affairs
1940★ 0.0
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943★ 5.4
Freshman Love
1936★ 6.0
X Marks the Spot
1942★ 3.9
Bullets for O'Hara
1941★ 4.0
Times Square Playboy
1936★ 4.4
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
1943★ 6.0
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
1989★ 8.0