As Actor
Alcatraz Island
1937
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Dick Purcell
Acting
Birth date
August 6, 1905
Birth place
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Death date
April 10, 1944
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.
