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