Dick Purcell
Born: 1905-08-06 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Died: 1944-04-10
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1944
- Captain America as Captain America / Grant Gardner
- Leave It to the Irish as Pat Burke
- Timber Queen as Milt Holmes
- Trocadero as Spike Nelson
1943
- High Explosive as Dave
- Idaho as Duke Springer
- Aerial Gunner as Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine
- The Mystery of the 13th Guest as Johnny Smith
- No Place for a Lady as Randy Brooks
- Reveille with Beverly as Andy Adams
- Fighting Men: Crack That Tank as Tank Instructor
1942
- In Old California as Joe Dawson
- I Live on Danger as Norm Thompson
- X Marks the Spot as Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker
- Phantom Killer as Edward Clarkk
- The Old Homestead as Scarf Lennin
- Torpedo Boat as Ralph Andrews
1941
- King of the Zombies as James 'Mac' McCarthy
- The Pittsburgh Kid as Cliff Halliday
- Bullets for O'Hara as Wicks
- Flying Blind as Bob Fuller
- No Hands on the Clock as Red Harris
- Two in a Taxi as Bill Gratton
1940
- The Bank Dick as Mackley Q. Greene
- Arise, My Love as Pink
- Flight Command as Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
- New Moon as Alexander
- Outside the Three-Mile Limit as Agent Melvin Pierce
- Private Affairs as Dick Cartwright
1939
- Blackwell's Island as Terry Walsh
- Streets of New York as T.P. 'Tap' Keenan
- Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 as Dick Purcell
- While America Sleeps as Dave Miller
- Heroes in Blue as Terry Murphy
- Drunk Driving as John Jones
- Irish Luck as Steve Lanahan
1938
- Over the Wall as Ace Scanlon
- Tough Kid as 'Red' Murphy
- Valley of the Giants as Creel
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Nancy Drew… Detective as Keiffer
- Broadway Musketeers as Vince Morrell
- Flight Into Nowhere as Bill Kellogg
- Mystery House as Lance O'Leary
- Garden of the Moon as Rick Fulton
- The Daredevil Drivers as Bill Foster
- Air Devils as Percy 'Slats' Harrington
- Accidents Will Happen as Jim Faber
- Penrod's Double Trouble as Tex Boyden
1937
- Missing Witnesses as "Bull" Regan
- Alcatraz Island as David 'Harp' Santell
- Public Wedding as Joe Taylor
- Melody for Two as Mel Lynch
- Wine, Women and Horses as George Mayhew
- Men in Exile as Jimmy Carmody
- Talent Scout as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Draegerman Courage as Trapped Draegerman (uncredited)
- Reported Missing as Paul Wayne
- Navy Blues as Rusty Gibbs
1936
- Bullets or Ballots as Ed Driscoll
- Follow the Fleet as Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
- Ceiling Zero as Smiley (as Dick Purcell)
- Jailbreak as Ed Slayden
- Snowed Under as Bert (uncredited)
- The Captain's Kid as George Chester
- The Law in Her Hands as Marty
- Freshman Love as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
- King of Hockey as Gabby Dugan
- Public Enemy's Wife as Louie
- Brides Are Like That as Dr. Randolph Jenkins (as Richard Purcell)
- The Case of the Velvet Claws as Crandal
- Times Square Playboy as Wally Calhoun
- Man Hunt as Skip McHenry
- Bengal Tiger as Nick DeLargo
1930
- The Doorway to Hell as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)