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.
Dick Purcell Biography / Wiki
| Name | Dick Purcell |
| Also Know | Richard Gerold Purcell Jr., Richard Gerold Purcell, Richard G. Purcell, Richard Purcell |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Greenwich, Connecticut, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1905-08-06 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 38 |
| Deathday | 1944-04-10 |
Dick Purcell Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| King of the Zombies | James ‘Mac’ McCarthy | 1941-05-14 | During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, t… |
| Mystery House | Lance O’Leary | 1938-05-21 | When Hubert Kingery, a banker, is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detectiv… |
| Captain America | Captain America / Grant Gardner | 1944-02-05 | Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of … |
| Phantom Killer | Edward Clarkk | 1942-10-02 | Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there… |
| Men In Exile | Jimmy Carmody | 1937-04-04 | An ex-con takes flight after he’s framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder…. |
| Navy Blues | Rusty Gibbs | 1937-03-29 | A sailor bets his friends he can get a date with any woman they choose. They pick out a librarian with glasses and a bookish appearance. When he pursu… |
| King of Hockey | Gabby Dugan | 1936-12-19 | Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game…. |
| Heroes in Blue | Terry Murphy | 1939-11-07 | Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad’s footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime a… |
| Drunk Driving | John Jones | 1939-10-28 | In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes … |
| While America Sleeps | Dave Miller | 1939-04-14 | An episode in the “Crime Does Not Pay” series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually selling secret bomber plans to foreign agents. Unite… |
| Fighting Men: Crack That Tank | Tank Instructor | 1943-01-24 | A tank driver explains the nature of the armored combat vehicle and the techniques of how the infantry can deal with them in combat…. |
| The Mystery of the 13th Guest | Johnny Smith | 1943-11-05 | Murders result from an uncle’s wish to eliminate beneficiaries to a will…. |
| Missing Witnesses | “Bull” Regan | 1937-12-11 | A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in ’30s New York City…. |
| Air Devils | Percy ‘Slats’ Harrington | 1938-05-13 | Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl…. |
| The Daredevil Drivers | Bill Foster | 1938-02-12 | To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival…. |
| Tough Kid | ‘Red’ Murphy | 1938-12-28 | Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a world championship title bout. Trouble comes for the Mu… |
| No Place for a Lady | Randy Brooks | 1943-02-11 | A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it… |
| Flight Into Nowhere | Bill Kellogg | 1938-04-19 | When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he en… |
| Blackwell’s Island | Terry Walsh | 1939-01-24 | A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster…. |
| Reveille with Beverly | Andy Adams | 1943-02-04 | Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a n… |
| Wine, Women and Horses | George Mayhew | 1937-09-11 | An ex-gambler (Barton MacLane) hooks up with an old flame (Ann Sheridan) after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife…. |
| X Marks the Spot | Police Lt. William ‘Bill’ Decker | 1942-11-04 | A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his … |
| Penrod’s Double Trouble | Tex Boyden | 1938-07-23 | When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child…. |
| Accidents Will Happen | Jim Faber | 1938-04-09 | A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife…. |
| Irish Luck | Steve Lanahan | 1939-08-22 | A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest…. |
| Reported Missing | Paul Wayne | 1937-08-15 | A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed…. |
| Public Wedding | Joe Taylor | 1937-07-09 | The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake ‘public wedding’ in the mouth of their unprofita… |
| The Pittsburgh Kid | Cliff Halliday | 1941-08-29 | Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis’ heavyweight championship bouts. One of th… |
| No Hands on the Clock | Red Harris | 1941-12-01 | A wise-cracking private detective’s honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case…. |
| Over the Wall | Ace Scanlon | 1938-04-02 | When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence…. |
| Leave It to the Irish | Pat Burke | 1944-08-26 | A private eye (James Dunn) investigates the murder of a fur dealer. Monogram…. |
| Trocadero | Spike Nelson | 1944-04-24 | A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator,… |
| Jailbreak | Ed Slayden | 1936-08-05 | A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars…. |
| Streets of New York | T.P. ‘Tap’ Keenan | 1939-04-12 | Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous … |
| Two in a Taxi | Bill Gratton | 1941-07-10 | An ambitious but financially strapped taxi driver becomes involved with mobsters to obtain money to buy a gas station…. |
| The Old Homestead | Scarf Lennin | 1942-08-17 | In this entry in the “Weaver Family” series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave. The angry citizens are ready to impeach the mayo… |
| Arise, My Love | Pinky O’Connor | 1940-11-08 | In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta ‘Gusto’ … |
| Melody For Two | Mel Lynch | 1937-05-01 | A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band…. |
| I Live on Danger | Norm Thompson | 1942-06-16 | A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss…. |
| Bullets for O’Hara | Wicks | 1941-07-19 | A detective courts a gangster’s ex-wife to lure him into a trap…. |
| Man Hunt | Skip McHenry | 1936-01-29 | A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber…. |
| Alcatraz Island | David ‘Harp’ Santell | 1937-10-13 | A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence…. |
| Aerial Gunner | Lancelot ‘Gadget’ Blaine | 1943-03-20 | Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman…. |
| Torpedo Boat | Ralph Andrews | 1942-01-24 | Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who’ve invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title)…. |
| Bengal Tiger | Nick DeLargo | 1936-07-29 | After causing his friend’s death, an animal trainer marries the man’s daughter to atone…. |
| Times Square Playboy | Wally Calhoun | 1936-05-09 | A stock broker’s small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding…. |
| Brides Are Like That | Dr. Randolph Jenkins (as Richard Purcell) | 1936-04-18 | Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not worki… |
| The Law in Her Hands | Marty | 1936-05-16 | A female lawyer (Margaret Lindsay) sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob…. |
| Timber Queen | Milt Holmes | 1944-01-13 | Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited i… |
| The Captain’s Kid | George Chester | 1936-11-14 | In this children’s adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk…. |
| Broadway Musketeers | Vince Morrell | 1938-10-08 | Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nig… |
| High Explosive | Dave | 1943-03-27 | Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend “Buzz” Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto ca… |
| Bullets or Ballots | Ed Driscoll | 1936-06-06 | After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger th… |
| Public Enemy’s Wife | Louie | 1936-07-24 | Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claim… |
| In Old California | Joe Dawson | 1942-05-31 | Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citi… |
| Flying Blind | Bob Fuller | 1941-08-29 | A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened… |
| Idaho | Duke Springer | 1943-03-10 | A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner…. |
| Outside the Three-Mile Limit | Agent Melvin Pierce | 1940-03-07 | Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambli… |
| The Bank Dick | Mackley Q. Greene | 1940-11-29 | Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he’s occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank g… |
| New Moon | Alexander | 1940-06-28 | A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana…. |
| Flight Command | Lieut. ‘Stichy’ Payne | 1940-12-27 | A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn’t make a great first impression … |
| Nancy Drew: Detective | Keiffer | 1938-11-19 | Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy becomes a “widow” i… |
| The Case of the Velvet Claws | Crandal | 1936-08-15 | Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a wom… |
| Valley of the Giants | Creel | 1938-09-17 | A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business…. |
| Garden of the Moon | Rick Fulton | 1938-09-23 | Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast ov… |
| Private Affairs | Dick Cartwright | 1940-07-05 | A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she’s never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life…. |
| Ceiling Zero | Smiley (as Dick Purcell) | 1936-01-16 | War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot’s girl-friend and d… |
| Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 | Dick Purcell | 1939-04-08 | Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomos… |
| Snowed Under | Bert (uncredited) | 1936-03-29 | Alan Tanner’s new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can’t finish the third act. He’s retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor… |
| Follow the Fleet | Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited) | 1936-02-20 | When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake’s buddy… |
| Draegerman Courage | Trapped Draegerman (uncredited) | 1937-05-15 | After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners…. |
| Freshman Love | Radio Announcer (uncredited) | 1936-01-18 | A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn’t like schools that have high academic standards…. |
| The Doorway to Hell | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) | 1930-10-18 | A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and … |
| Talent Scout | Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1937-07-24 | A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom…. |
| Breakdowns of 1938 | Himself | 1938-02-07 | This was one of the annual “blooper” reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke … |
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