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Dick Purcell

Acting

Born

August 6, 1905

Born In

Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

Died

April 10, 1944

About

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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