
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

Bullets or Ballots
1936

Private Affairs
1940

The Bank Dick
1940

Arise, My Love
1940

In Old California
1942

Follow the Fleet
1936

The Captain's Kid
1936

Flight Command
1940

Reveille with Beverly
1943

Tough Kid
1938

Man Hunt
1936

Breakdowns of 1938
1938

Public Enemy's Wife
1936

Flight Into Nowhere
1938

The Law in Her Hands
1936

King of Hockey
1936

Snowed Under
1936

King of the Zombies
1941

Two in a Taxi
1941

Alcatraz Island
1937

Idaho
1943

New Moon
1940

Public Wedding
1937