Dick Purcell

Known for Acting

Dick Purcell's portrait

Details

Birthday: August 06, 1905

Deathday: April 10, 1944

Place of birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

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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