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