Dick Purcell

Acting

Dick Purcell

Born 1905-08-06 Greenwich, Connecticut, USA 76 films

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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Filmography

76 films
Trocadero poster

A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film pe…

Trocadero

★ 5.1 1944

Timber Queen poster

Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his,…

Timber Queen

★ 6.0 1944

High Explosive poster

Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchel…

High Explosive

★ 6.3 1943

Idaho poster

A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed fo…

Idaho

★ 6.3 1943