Dick Purcell

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Acting

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.

Filmography

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