Dick Purcell

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 hear…

Filmography

Captain America

1944 · Movie

as Captain America / Grant Gardner

In Old California

1942 · Movie

as Joe Dawson

Follow the Fleet

1936 · Movie

as Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)

Bullets or Ballots

1936 · Movie

as Ed Driscoll

1943 · Movie

as Duke Springer

Alcatraz Island

1937 · Movie

as David 'Harp' Santell

1940 · Movie

as Alexander

1940 · Movie

as Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne

X Marks the Spot

1942 · Movie

as Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker

Bullets for O'Hara

1941 · Movie

as Wicks

1938 · Movie

as Ace Scanlon

King of the Zombies

1941 · Movie

as James 'Mac' McCarthy

1940 · Movie

as Mackley Q. Greene

Valley of the Giants

1938 · Movie

as Creel

1943 · Movie

as Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine

Breakdowns of 1938

1938 · Movie

as Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)

Public Enemy's Wife

1936 · Movie

as Louie

1939 · Movie

as Steve Lanahan

Garden of the Moon

1938 · Movie

as Rick Fulton

1940 · Movie

as Pink

1936 · Movie

as Radio Announcer (uncredited)

1936 · Movie

as Smiley (as Dick Purcell)

The Doorway to Hell

1930 · Movie

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1936 · Movie

as Gabby Dugan