Dick Purcell
Richard G. Purcell
Birth Date
8/6/1905 (Age 38)Birth Place
Greenwich, Connecticut, USADeath Date
4/10/1944Departments
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.
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Frequent Collaborators
Claudette Colbert
1 film together
Mitchell Leisen
1 film together
Billy Wilder
1 film together
Charles Brackett
1 film together
Charles Lang
1 film together
Ray Milland
1 film together
