Dick Purcell

🎭 Actor

Dick Purcell

🎂 Born 6 August 1905 (age 38)✝ 10 April 1944📍 Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

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Popularity Score

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Acting Credits

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

Captain America

Captain America / Grant Gardner

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots

In Old California

In Old California

The Bank Dick

Mackley Q. Greene

Full Filmography(76 films)

YearTitleCharacterRating

1944Captain AmericaCaptain America / Grant Gardner★ 5.4 1936Bullets or BallotsEd Driscoll★ 6.6 1942In Old CaliforniaJoe Dawson★ 5.3 1940The Bank DickMackley Q. Greene★ 6.5 1940Flight CommandLieut. 'Stichy' Payne★ 5.9 1936Follow the FleetLead Marine on Ship (uncredited)★ 6.8 1943IdahoDuke Springer★ 6.3 1943Aerial GunnerLancelot 'Gadget' Blaine★ 5.0 1943Reveille with BeverlyAndy Adams★ 7.5 1938Over the WallAce Scanlon★ 5.7 1940New MoonAlexander★ 6.9 1940Arise, My LovePink★ 6.3 1938Breakdowns of 1938Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)★ 5.8 1938Nancy Drew… DetectiveKeiffer★ 6.5 1936Public Enemy's WifeLouie★ 6.4 1938Broadway MusketeersVince Morrell★ 4.4 1941Bullets for O'HaraWicks★ 5.0 1937Alcatraz IslandDavid 'Harp' Santell★ 5.1 1938Valley of the GiantsCreel★ 6.7 1944Timber QueenMilt Holmes★ 6.0 1936Snowed UnderBert (uncredited)★ 7.4 1936Ceiling ZeroSmiley (as Dick Purcell)★ 5.9 1939Irish LuckSteve Lanahan★ 6.4 1941No Hands on the ClockRed Harris★ 5.6 1936Freshman LoveRadio Announcer (uncredited)★ 7.0 1936The Captain's KidGeorge Chester★ 6.7 1941The Pittsburgh KidCliff Halliday★ 7.0 1942I Live on DangerNorm Thompson★ 6.1 1939Streets of New YorkT.P. 'Tap' Keenan★ 5.4 1937Talent ScoutBenefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)★ 6.7 1943No Place for a LadyRandy Brooks★ 6.0 1939Blackwell's IslandTerry Walsh★ 5.5 1941King of the ZombiesJames 'Mac' McCarthy★ 5.2 1936Man HuntSkip McHenry★ 10.0 1930The Doorway to HellUndetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)★ 6.5 1937Navy BluesRusty Gibbs★ 6.0 1937Reported MissingPaul Wayne★ 10.0 1942X Marks the SpotPolice Lt. William 'Bill' Decker★ 4.5 1936The Law in Her HandsMarty★ 6.0 1938Tough Kid'Red' Murphy★ 6.5 1937Public WeddingJoe Taylor★ 6.0 1941Flying BlindBob Fuller★ 4.6 1938Mystery HouseLance O'Leary★ 4.8 1940Private AffairsDick Cartwright★ 7.0 1938Penrod's Double TroubleTex Boyden★ 7.5 1936JailbreakEd Slayden★ 6.7 1938Garden of the MoonRick Fulton★ 6.8 1944TrocaderoSpike Nelson★ 5.1 1937Draegerman CourageTrapped Draegerman (uncredited)★ 7.3 1944Leave It to the IrishPat Burke★ 4.4 1936The Case of the Velvet ClawsCrandal★ 7.2 1943High ExplosiveDave★ 6.3 1940Outside the Three-Mile LimitAgent Melvin Pierce★ 5.7 1937Wine, Women and HorsesGeorge Mayhew★ 5.3 1936Bengal TigerNick DeLargo★ 4.8 1938Air DevilsPercy 'Slats' Harrington★ 4.3 1943The Mystery of the 13th GuestJohnny Smith★ 5.7 1938Flight Into NowhereBill Kellogg★ 5.3 1936Times Square PlayboyWally Calhoun★ 4.8 1936Brides Are Like ThatDr. Randolph Jenkins (as Richard Purcell)★ 6.1 1936King of HockeyGabby Dugan★ 5.4 1941Two in a TaxiBill Gratton★ 8.0 1937Missing Witnesses"Bull" Regan★ 7.0 1942Torpedo BoatRalph Andrews★ 7.5 1942The Old HomesteadScarf Lennin★ 8.0 1937Men in ExileJimmy Carmody★ 5.0 1939Drunk DrivingJohn Jones★ 5.8 1939Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8Dick Purcell★ 4.0 1942Phantom KillerEdward Clarkk★ 5.3 1939Heroes in BlueTerry Murphy★ 4.9 1938The Daredevil DriversBill Foster★ 6.0 1937Melody for TwoMel Lynch★ 7.0 1989Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes—★ 8.0 1938Accidents Will HappenJim Faber★ 6.3 1939While America SleepsDave Miller★ 6.7 1943Fighting Men: Crack That TankTank Instructor★ 6.0

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