Acting credits
75
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Dick Purcell
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 75Series: 0
TMDB ID: 13970
IMDb ID: nm0700711
Known for: Acting
Born: August 6, 1905
Died: April 10, 1944
Age: 38
Place of birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1930 - 1989
Years active: 60
Average TMDB rating: 6
Wikidata: Q5273293
Also known as
Richard Gerold Purcell Jr. • Richard Gerold Purcell • Richard G. Purcell • Richard 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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Dick Purcell.
8.0
Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
1989 Movie
4.7
Trocadero
as Spike Nelson
1944 Movie
5.3
Captain America
as Captain America / Grant Gardner
1944 Movie
5.7
Timber Queen
as Milt Holmes
1944 Movie
5.4
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
as Johnny Smith
1943 Movie
5.7
High Explosive
as Dave
1943 Movie
4.4
Aerial Gunner
as Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine
1943 Movie
5.7
Idaho
as Duke Springer
1943 Movie
6.0
No Place for a Lady
as Randy Brooks
1943 Movie
7.0
Reveille with Beverly
as Andy Adams
1943 Movie
6.0
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
as Tank Instructor
1943 Movie
3.9
X Marks the Spot
as Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker
1942 Movie
4.5
Phantom Killer
as Edward Clarkk
1942 Movie
The Old Homestead
as Scarf Lennin
1942 Movie
5.7
I Live on Danger
as Norm Thompson
1942 Movie
5.1
In Old California
as Joe Dawson
1942 Movie
6.0
Torpedo Boat
as Ralph Andrews
1942 Movie
4.9
No Hands on the Clock
as Red Harris
1941 Movie
3.3
Flying Blind
as Bob Fuller
1941 Movie
The Pittsburgh Kid
as Cliff Halliday
1941 Movie
4.0
Bullets for O'Hara
as Wicks
1941 Movie
Two in a Taxi
as Bill Gratton
1941 Movie
5.1
King of the Zombies
as James 'Mac' McCarthy
1941 Movie
5.6
Flight Command
as Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
1940 Movie