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
In Old California
as Joe Dawson
Captain America
as Captain America / Grant Gardner
Nancy Drew… Detective
as Keiffer
Bullets or Ballots
as Ed Driscoll
Over the Wall
as Ace Scanlon
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
as Johnny Smith
Follow the Fleet
as Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
Broadway Musketeers
as Vince Morrell
The Bank Dick
as Mackley Q. Greene
Alcatraz Island
as David 'Harp' Santell