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.

Known For

Follow the Fleet

Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)

The Bank Dick

Mackley Q. Greene

Talent Scout

Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)

Captain America

Captain America / Grant Gardner

Tough Kid

'Red' Murphy

King of the Zombies

James 'Mac' McCarthy

Arise, My Love

Pink

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

Agent Melvin Pierce