7.0
7.0
Reveille with Beverly
1943
as Andy Adams
Dick Purcell
Acting
Born:August 6, 1905
Died:April 10, 1944(aged 38)
Birthplace:Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (71 movies)
7.0
7.0
Snowed Under
1936
as Bert (uncredited)
6.8
6.8
Follow the Fleet
1936
as Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
6.8
6.8
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
as Crandal
6.6
6.6
Bullets or Ballots
1936
as Ed Driscoll
6.5
6.5
New Moon
1940
as Alexander
6.5
6.5
Draegerman Courage
1937
as Trapped Draegerman (uncredited)
6.5
6.5
The Bank Dick
1940
as Mackley Q. Greene
6.4
6.4
Jailbreak
1936
as Ed Slayden
6.3
6.3
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938
as Keiffer
6.3
6.3
Arise, My Love
1940
as Pink
6.2
6.2
Garden of the Moon
1938
as Rick Fulton
6.0
6.0
Valley of the Giants
1938
as Creel
6.0
6.0
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938
as Tex Boyden
6.0
6.0
Fighting Men: Crack That Tank
1943
as Tank Instructor
6.0
6.0
While America Sleeps
1939
as Dave Miller
6.0
6.0
No Place for a Lady
1943
as Randy Brooks
6.0
6.0
Tough Kid
1938
as 'Red' Murphy
6.0
6.0
The Captain's Kid
1936
as George Chester
6.0
6.0
Accidents Will Happen
1938
as Jim Faber
6.0
6.0
Torpedo Boat
1942
as Ralph Andrews
5.8
5.8
Irish Luck
1939
as Steve Lanahan
5.8
5.8
Public Enemy's Wife
1936
as Louie
5.7
5.7
I Live on Danger
1942
as Norm Thompson
5.7
5.7
Public Wedding
1937
as Joe Taylor
5.7
5.7
Idaho
1943
as Duke Springer
5.7
5.7
Timber Queen
1944
as Milt Holmes
5.7
5.7
High Explosive
1943
as Dave
5.6
5.6
Flight Command
1940
as Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
5.5
5.5
Ceiling Zero
1936
as Smiley (as Dick Purcell)
5.5
5.5
Missing Witnesses
1937
as "Bull" Regan
5.4
5.4
Drunk Driving
1939
as John Jones
5.4
5.4
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
as Johnny Smith
5.4
5.4
Captain America
1944
as Captain America / Grant Gardner
5.2
5.2
King of the Zombies
1941
as James 'Mac' McCarthy
5.1
5.1
In Old California
1942
as Joe Dawson
5.0
5.0
Blackwell's Island
1939
as Terry Walsh
5.0
5.0
Over the Wall
1938
as Ace Scanlon
5.0
5.0
Navy Blues
1937
as Rusty Gibbs
5.0
5.0
King of Hockey
1936
as Gabby Dugan
5.0
5.0
The Law in Her Hands
1936
as Marty
5.0
5.0
The Daredevil Drivers
1938
as Bill Foster
4.9
4.9
No Hands on the Clock
1941
as Red Harris
4.9
4.9
Alcatraz Island
1937
as David 'Harp' Santell
4.8
4.8
Brides Are Like That
1936
as Dr. Randolph Jenkins (as Richard Purcell)
4.8
4.8
Streets of New York
1939
as T.P. 'Tap' Keenan
4.7
4.7
Trocadero
1944
as Spike Nelson
4.4
4.4
Mystery House
1938
as Lance O'Leary
4.4
4.4
Aerial Gunner
1943
as Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine
4.4
4.4
Times Square Playboy
1936
as Wally Calhoun
4.3
4.3
Phantom Killer
1942
as Edward Clarkk
4.3
4.3
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
as George Mayhew
4.2
4.2
Bengal Tiger
1936
as Nick DeLargo
4.2
4.2
Men in Exile
1937
as Jimmy Carmody
4.0
4.0
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940
as Agent Melvin Pierce
4.0
4.0
Bullets for O'Hara
1941
as Wicks
4.0
4.0
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
as Dick Purcell
4.0
4.0
Flight Into Nowhere
1938
as Bill Kellogg
4.0
4.0
Heroes in Blue
1939
as Terry Murphy
3.9
3.9
X Marks the Spot
1942
as Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker
3.5
3.5
Broadway Musketeers
1938
as Vince Morrell
3.1
3.1
Leave It to the Irish
1944
as Pat Burke
2.7
2.7
Flying Blind
1941
as Bob Fuller
2.3
2.3
Air Devils
1938
as Percy 'Slats' Harrington
Melody for Two
1937
as Mel Lynch
Reported Missing
1937
as Paul Wayne
The Old Homestead
1942
as Scarf Lennin
Man Hunt
1936
as Skip McHenry
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941
as Cliff Halliday
Two in a Taxi
1941
as Bill Gratton
Private Affairs
1940
as Dick Cartwright
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