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Dick Purcell
Catalogued films 64Actor 64
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.
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Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes
Leave It to the Irish
Captain America
Timber Queen
Trocadero
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
High Explosive
No Place for a Lady
Aerial Gunner
Idaho
X Marks the Spot
Phantom Killer
I Live on Danger
In Old California
Torpedo Boat
No Hands on the Clock
Flying Blind
The Pittsburgh Kid
Bullets for O'Hara
Two in a Taxi
King of the Zombies
Flight Command
The Bank Dick
Arise, My Love
Private Affairs
New Moon
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Heroes in Blue
Drunk Driving
Streets of New York
Blackwell's Island
Irish Luck
Tough Kid
Nancy Drew… Detective
Valley of the Giants
Penrod's Double Trouble
Mystery House
Air Devils
Flight Into Nowhere
Accidents Will Happen
Over the Wall
The Daredevil Drivers
Broadway Musketeers
Garden of the Moon
Missing Witnesses
Alcatraz Island
Wine, Women and Horses
Reported Missing
Public Wedding
Men in Exile
Navy Blues
Melody for Two
King of Hockey
The Captain's Kid
Jailbreak
Bengal Tiger
Public Enemy's Wife
The Case of the Velvet Claws
The Law in Her Hands
Times Square Playboy
Brides Are Like That
Man Hunt
Bullets or Ballots
Ceiling Zero