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
Arise, My Love
as Pink
Irish Luck
as Steve Lanahan
Idaho
as Duke Springer
Garden of the Moon
as Rick Fulton
Breakdowns of 1938
as Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
Man Hunt
as Skip McHenry
Over the Wall
as Ace Scanlon
The Bank Dick
as Mackley Q. Greene