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Dick Purcell

Acting

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

1938

King of the Zombies

1941

1940

Leave It to the Irish

1944

Valley of the Giants

1938

1940

Bullets or Ballots

1936

Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes

1989

1941

Nancy Drew… Detective

1938

Follow the Fleet

1936

Captain America

1944

In Old California

1942

I Live on Danger

1942

X Marks the Spot

1942

The Doorway to Hell

1930

Streets of New York

1939

Garden of the Moon

1938

No Hands on the Clock

1941

The Case of the Velvet Claws

1936

Brides Are Like That

1936

1943

The Captain's Kid

1936

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

1940