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
In Old California
as Joe Dawson
Idaho
as Duke Springer
Bullets or Ballots
as Ed Driscoll
Over the Wall
as Ace Scanlon
Breakdowns of 1938
as Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Doorway to Hell
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Arise, My Love
as Pink
Broadway Musketeers
as Vince Morrell
Reveille with Beverly
as Andy Adams