Actor info
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Name :
Dick Purcell
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Born :
August 6, 1905 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA (38 years at death)
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Died :
April 10, 1944
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
76 films (1930–1989)
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Also known as :
Richard Gerold Purcell Jr., Richard Gerold Purcell, Richard G. Purcell, Richard Purcell
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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.
Notable films
- Captain America (1944) as Captain America / Grant Gardner
- In Old California (1942) as Joe Dawson
- The Bank Dick (1940) as Mackley Q. Greene
- Bullets or Ballots (1936) as Ed Driscoll
- Follow the Fleet (1936) as Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
