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Dick Purcell
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76 known credits
0.8 popularity score 38 years
Biography
About Dick Purcell
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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Dick Purcell across film and television
76credited titles
76movie credits
0TV credits
1930–1989screen career span
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