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.

Cast

Mackley Q. Greene

The Old Homestead

King of the Zombies

James 'Mac' McCarthy

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

Agent Melvin Pierce

Bullets or Ballots

Nancy Drew… Detective

Blackwell's Island

Times Square Playboy

Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne

Reveille with Beverly

Captain America

Captain America / Grant Gardner

No Hands on the Clock

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

The Case of the Velvet Claws

Brides Are Like That

Dr. Randolph Jenkins (as Richard Purcell)

Wine, Women and Horses

Public Enemy's Wife

Missing Witnesses

X Marks the Spot

Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker

Valley of the Giants

Penrod's Double Trouble

Accidents Will Happen

Leave It to the Irish

I Live on Danger

Follow the Fleet

Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)

Percy 'Slats' Harrington

The Law in Her Hands

Reported Missing

The Daredevil Drivers

Bullets for O'Hara

Garden of the Moon

Alcatraz Island

David 'Harp' Santell

The Pittsburgh Kid

No Place for a Lady

Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine

In Old California

Radio Announcer (uncredited)

Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)

Flight Into Nowhere

The Captain's Kid

Broadway Musketeers

While America Sleeps

Breakdowns of 1938

Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)

Smiley (as Dick Purcell)

Fighting Men: Crack That Tank

Tank Instructor

The Doorway to Hell

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Private Affairs

Dick Cartwright

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

Streets of New York

T.P. 'Tap' Keenan

Draegerman Courage

Trapped Draegerman (uncredited)

Bert (uncredited)