Dick Purcell
- Known for
- Acting
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- August 6, 1905
- Age at death
- 38
- Died
- April 10, 1944
- From
- Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
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.
