1936Nominee
Best Performance
Follow the Fleet
Dick Purcell
Actor
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
August 6, 1905
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1940Nominee
Best Performance
The Bank Dick
1941Nominee
Best Performance
King of the Zombies
Career Highlights
1938Highlight
Best Performance
Tough Kid
1944Highlight
Best Performance
Captain America
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Follow the Fleet
The Bank Dick
King of the Zombies