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
- Trocadero as Spike Nelson
- Leave It to the Irish as Pat Burke
- Timber Queen as Milt Holmes
1943
- 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
- High Explosive as Dave
- Fighting Men: Crack That Tank as Tank Instructor
1942
- In Old California as Joe Dawson
- I Live on Danger as Norm Thompson
- Phantom Killer as Edward Clarkk
- X Marks the Spot as Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker
- Torpedo Boat as Ralph Andrews
- The Old Homestead as Scarf Lennin
1941
- King of the Zombies as James 'Mac' McCarthy
- No Hands on the Clock as Red Harris
- Bullets for O'Hara as Wicks
- Flying Blind as Bob Fuller
- The Pittsburgh Kid as Cliff Halliday
- Two in a Taxi as Bill Gratton
1940
- The Bank Dick as Mackley Q. Greene
- Flight Command as Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
- Arise, My Love as Pink
- Private Affairs as Dick Cartwright
- New Moon as Alexander
- Outside the Three-Mile Limit as Agent Melvin Pierce
1939
- Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 as Dick Purcell
- 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
- Drunk Driving as John Jones
- Heroes in Blue as Terry Murphy
1938
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Valley of the Giants as Creel
- Broadway Musketeers as Vince Morrell
- Nancy Drew… Detective as Keiffer
- Mystery House as Lance O'Leary
- Garden of the Moon as Rick Fulton
- Accidents Will Happen as Jim Faber
- Over the Wall as Ace Scanlon
- Flight Into Nowhere as Bill Kellogg
- Penrod's Double Trouble as Tex Boyden
- The Daredevil Drivers as Bill Foster
- Tough Kid as 'Red' Murphy
- Air Devils as Percy 'Slats' Harrington
1937
- Reported Missing as Paul Wayne
- Alcatraz Island as David 'Harp' Santell
- Public Wedding as Joe Taylor
- Missing Witnesses as "Bull" Regan
- Talent Scout as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Draegerman Courage as Trapped Draegerman (uncredited)
- Men in Exile as Jimmy Carmody
- Navy Blues as Rusty Gibbs
- Melody for Two as Mel Lynch
- Wine, Women and Horses as George Mayhew
1936
- King of Hockey as Gabby Dugan
- Follow the Fleet as Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
- Bullets or Ballots as Ed Driscoll
- Freshman Love as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
- Jailbreak as Ed Slayden
- Snowed Under as Bert (uncredited)
- The Law in Her Hands as Marty
- Public Enemy's Wife as Louie
- The Case of the Velvet Claws as Crandal
- Man Hunt as Skip McHenry
- Times Square Playboy as Wally Calhoun
- The Captain's Kid as George Chester
- Ceiling Zero as Smiley (as Dick Purcell)
- Bengal Tiger as Nick DeLargo
- Brides Are Like That as Dr. Randolph Jenkins (as Richard Purcell)
1930
- The Doorway to Hell as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)