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