Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 6, 1905
Place of Birth
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Also Known As
- Richard Gerold Purcell Jr.
- Richard Gerold Purcell
- Richard G. Purcell
- Richard Purcell
Dick Purcell
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.
Known For - Movies
Arise, My Love
as Pink
Breakdowns of 1938
as Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flight Command
as Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
Idaho
as Duke Springer
Garden of the Moon
as Rick Fulton
New Moon
as Alexander
Alcatraz Island
as David 'Harp' Santell
Man Hunt
as Skip McHenry
Captain America
as Captain America / Grant Gardner
Over the Wall
as Ace Scanlon