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
Captain America
as Captain America / Grant Gardner
Bullets or Ballots
as Ed Driscoll
Follow the Fleet
as Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
Valley of the Giants
as Creel
Freshman Love
as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Arise, My Love
as Pink
Reported Missing
as Paul Wayne
Idaho
as Duke Springer
Aerial Gunner
as Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine
Melody for Two
as Mel Lynch