Dick Purcell

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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.


Popular movies of Dick Purcell

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Breakdowns of 1938
Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
100%
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In Old California
Joe Dawson
92%
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Captain America
Captain America / Grant Gardner
80%
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Follow the Fleet
Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
75%
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Bullets or Ballots
Ed Driscoll
69%