Dick Purcell
- Birthday
- Aug 6, 1908
Bio: Dick Purcell was a good-natured, athletic leading man in the Regis Toomey/Lyle Talbot mold, so it seemed natural that he'd end up at Toomey's and Talbot's mutual stamping grounds of Warner Bros. For four years, Purcell was the uncrowned king of Warners' B-picture unit. After several handsome but unmemorable "hero" assignments, Purcell demonstrated a breezy gift for… More Bio: Dick Purcell was a good-natured, athletic leading man in the Regis Toomey/Lyle Talbot mold, so it seemed natural that he'd end up at Toomey's and Talbot's mutual stamping grounds of Warner Bros. For four years, Purcell was the uncrowned king of Warners' B-picture unit. After several handsome but unmemorable "hero" assignments, Purcell demonstrated a breezy gift for comedy as movie studio functionary Mackley Q. Greene in W.C. Fields' The Bank Dick (1940). Thereafter, it was back to Dick-the-stick leads and villains at Republic and Monogram. Dick Purcell's last film role was the title character in the 1943 Republic serial Captain America; one year later, he died of a heart condition at the age of 35. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
-
Captain America (1944)
- Captain America/Grant Gardner
-
Timber Queen (1944)
- Milt
-
Aerial Gunner (1943)
- Gadget Blaine
-
Idaho (1943)
- Duke Springer
-
Reveille with Beverly (1943)
- Andy Adams
- See all 30 films
Born Today
- Kristin Scott Thomas (53 years old)
- Doug Jones (53 years old)
- Ray Stevenson (49 years old)
- Seijun Suzuki (90 years old)
- Cayden Boyd (19 years old)
- Sybil Danning (66 years old)
- Gary Burghoff (70 years old)
- Bob Dylan (72 years old)
- Dash Mihok (39 years old)
- Billy Gilman (25 years old)
- Michael Lonsdale (82 years old)
- Jean-Pierre Bacri (62 years old)
- Nell Campbell (60 years old)
- John C. Reilly (48 years old)
- Eric Close (46 years old)
- Alfred Molina (60 years old)
- Jim Broadbent (64 years old)
- Priscilla Presley (68 years old)
- Patti LaBelle (69 years old)
- Tommy Chong (75 years old)
- Will Sasso (38 years old)
- Cecilia Cheung (33 years old)
- Bryan Greenberg (35 years old)
- Déborah François (26 years old)
- See more (24)
