Dick Purcell
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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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Movies
The Bank Dick
6.5
The Old Homestead
0
King of the Zombies
5.092
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
4
Bullets or Ballots
6.583
New Moon
6.8
Nancy Drew… Detective
6.3
Blackwell's Island
5
Times Square Playboy
4.8
Mystery House
4.9
Flight Command
5.636
Reveille with Beverly
7
Captain America
5.5
No Hands on the Clock
4.9
Arise, My Love
6.3
Over the Wall
5
Phantom Killer
4.3
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
5.4
The Case of the Velvet Claws
6.8
Brides Are Like That
4.8
Men in Exile
4.8
Wine, Women and Horses
4
Public Enemy's Wife
5.8
Missing Witnesses
5.5
X Marks the Spot
3.864
Valley of the Giants
6
Penrod's Double Trouble
6
Melody for Two
0
Accidents Will Happen
6
Navy Blues
5
King of Hockey
5
Leave It to the Irish
3.5
Trocadero
4.667
I Live on Danger
5.7
Irish Luck
5.8
Follow the Fleet
6.8
Air Devils
2.333
Heroes in Blue
4
The Law in Her Hands
5
Timber Queen
5.7
Reported Missing
0
The Daredevil Drivers
5
Bullets for O'Hara
4
Garden of the Moon
5.8
Public Wedding
5.7
Jailbreak
6.4
Man Hunt
0
Tough Kid
6
Alcatraz Island
4.9
The Pittsburgh Kid
0
No Place for a Lady
6
Torpedo Boat
6
Aerial Gunner
4.4
In Old California
5.1
Freshman Love
6
Talent Scout
6
Flight Into Nowhere
4
The Captain's Kid
6
Flying Blind
2.667
Broadway Musketeers
4.3
While America Sleeps
6
Drunk Driving
5.375
Idaho
5.7
Breakdowns of 1938
5
Ceiling Zero
5.6
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
6
The Doorway to Hell
6.3
Private Affairs
0
Bengal Tiger
4.5
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
4
Streets of New York
4.833
Draegerman Courage
6.5
Two in a Taxi
0
High Explosive
5.7
Snowed Under
7