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

Captain America

Captain America / Grant Gardner

Follow the Fleet

Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)

Bullets or Ballots

Ed Driscoll

The Bank Dick

Mackley Q. Greene

X Marks the Spot

Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker

Garden of the Moon

Rick Fulton

Valley of the Giants

Creel

No Hands on the Clock

Red Harris