Dick Purcell
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.
Known for
- The Bank Dick (1940)
- Captain America (1944)
- Arise, My Love (1940)
- King of the Zombies (1941)
- Follow the Fleet (1936)
- Bullets or Ballots (1936)
- Streets of New York (1939)
- Valley of the Giants (1938)
- Public Enemy's Wife (1936)
- Tough Kid (1938)
- In Old California (1942)
- New Moon (1940)
- Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
- The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
- The Daredevil Drivers (1938)
- The Doorway to Hell (1930)
- Blackwell's Island (1939)
- Outside the Three-Mile Limit (1940)
- Aerial Gunner (1943)
- No Hands on the Clock (1941)