Dick Purcell

from Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

Artwork for Follow the FleetImage of Dick Purcell

Biography

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.

Timeline

1989Aged 84

  • Poster for Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes

    (Unknown)

1944Aged 39

  • Poster for Timber Queen

    Milt Holmes

  • Poster for Captain America

    Captain America / Grant Gardner

  • Poster for Trocadero

    Spike Nelson

  • Poster for Leave It to the Irish

    Pat Burke

1943Aged 38

  • Poster for Fighting Men: Crack That Tank

    Tank Instructor

  • Poster for Reveille with Beverly

    Andy Adams

  • Poster for No Place for a Lady

    Randy Brooks

  • Poster for Idaho

    Duke Springer

  • Poster for Aerial Gunner

    Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine

  • Poster for High Explosive

    Dave

  • Poster for The Mystery of the 13th Guest

    Johnny Smith

1942Aged 37

  • Poster for Torpedo Boat

    Ralph Andrews

  • Poster for In Old California

    Joe Dawson

  • Poster for I Live on Danger

    Norm Thompson

  • Poster for The Old Homestead

    Scarf Lennin

  • Poster for Phantom Killer

    Edward Clarkk

  • Poster for X Marks the Spot

    Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker

1941Aged 36

  • Poster for King of the Zombies

    James 'Mac' McCarthy

  • Poster for Two in a Taxi

    Bill Gratton

  • Poster for Bullets for O'Hara

    Wicks

  • Poster for The Pittsburgh Kid

    Cliff Halliday

  • Poster for Flying Blind

    Bob Fuller

  • Poster for No Hands on the Clock

    Red Harris

1940Aged 35

  • Poster for Outside the Three-Mile Limit

    Agent Melvin Pierce

  • Poster for New Moon

    Alexander

  • Poster for Private Affairs

    Dick Cartwright

  • Poster for Arise, My Love

    Pink

  • Poster for The Bank Dick

    Mackley Q. Greene

  • Poster for Flight Command

    Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne

1939Aged 34

  • Poster for Blackwell's Island

    Terry Walsh

  • Poster for Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

    Dick Purcell

  • Poster for Streets of New York

    T.P. 'Tap' Keenan

  • Poster for While America Sleeps

    Dave Miller

  • Poster for Irish Luck

    Steve Lanahan

  • Poster for Drunk Driving

    John Jones

  • Poster for Heroes in Blue

    Terry Murphy

1938Aged 33

  • Poster for The Daredevil Drivers

    Bill Foster

  • Poster for Over the Wall

    Ace Scanlon

  • Poster for Accidents Will Happen

    Jim Faber

  • Poster for Flight Into Nowhere

    Bill Kellogg

  • Poster for Air Devils

    Percy 'Slats' Harrington

  • Poster for Mystery House

    Lance O'Leary

  • Poster for Penrod's Double Trouble

    Tex Boyden

  • Poster for Valley of the Giants

    Creel

  • Poster for Garden of the Moon

    Rick Fulton

  • Poster for Broadway Musketeers

    Vince Morrell

  • Poster for Nancy Drew… Detective

    Keiffer

  • Poster for Tough Kid

    'Red' Murphy

  • Poster for Breakdowns of 1938

    Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)

1937Aged 32

  • Poster for Navy Blues

    Rusty Gibbs

  • Poster for Men in Exile

    Jimmy Carmody

  • Poster for Melody for Two

    Mel Lynch

  • Poster for Draegerman Courage

    Trapped Draegerman (uncredited)

  • Poster for Public Wedding

    Joe Taylor

  • Poster for Talent Scout

    Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Reported Missing

    Paul Wayne

  • Poster for Wine, Women and Horses

    George Mayhew

  • Poster for Alcatraz Island

    David 'Harp' Santell

  • Poster for Missing Witnesses

    "Bull" Regan

1936Aged 31

  • Poster for Ceiling Zero

    Smiley (as Dick Purcell)

  • Poster for Freshman Love

    Radio Announcer (uncredited)

  • Poster for Man Hunt

    Skip McHenry

  • Poster for Follow the Fleet

    Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)

  • Poster for Snowed Under

    Bert (uncredited)

  • Poster for Brides Are Like That

    Dr. Randolph Jenkins (as Richard Purcell)

  • Poster for Times Square Playboy

    Wally Calhoun

  • Poster for The Law in Her Hands

    Marty

  • Poster for Bullets or Ballots

    Ed Driscoll

  • Poster for The Case of the Velvet Claws

    Crandal

  • Poster for Public Enemy's Wife

    Louie

  • Poster for Bengal Tiger

    Nick DeLargo

  • Poster for Jailbreak

    Ed Slayden

  • Poster for The Captain's Kid

    George Chester

  • Poster for King of Hockey

    Gabby Dugan

1930Aged 25

  • Poster for The Doorway to Hell

    Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

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