Dick Purcell
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
- Captain America (1944)
- Follow the Fleet (1936)
- X Marks the Spot (1942)
- Garden of the Moon (1938)
- King of the Zombies (1941)
- Valley of the Giants (1938)
- Bullets or Ballots (1936)
- The Bank Dick (1940)
- The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)
- Arise, My Love (1940)
- The Law in Her Hands (1936)
- Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)
- No Hands on the Clock (1941)
- Wine, Women and Horses (1937)
- Leave It to the Irish (1944)
- Tough Kid (1938)
- The Doorway to Hell (1930)
- Public Enemy's Wife (1936)
- The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
- Outside the Three-Mile Limit (1940)