Where to watch Dick Purcell in the UK
Find every Dick Purcell film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 3 August 2026.
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.
Dick Purcell films streaming in the UK
Most-watched films featuring Dick Purcell, available across UK streaming, rent and buy.
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- Flight Command (1940) as Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
- The Bank Dick (1940) as Mackley Q. Greene
- Bullets or Ballots (1936) as Ed Driscoll
- Arise, My Love (1940) as Pink
- Tough Kid (1938) as 'Red' Murphy
- In Old California (1942) as Joe Dawson
- Breakdowns of 1938 (1938) as Tex Boyden (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Nancy Drew… Detective (1938) as Keiffer
- Captain America (1944) as Captain America / Grant Gardner
- Valley of the Giants (1938) as Creel
- Leave It to the Irish (1944) as Pat Burke
- New Moon (1940) as Alexander
- Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 (1939) as Dick Purcell
- King of the Zombies (1941) as James 'Mac' McCarthy
- Wine, Women and Horses (1937) as George Mayhew
- The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936) as Crandal
- Penrod's Double Trouble (1938) as Tex Boyden
- Follow the Fleet (1936) as Lead Marine on Ship (uncredited)
- No Place for a Lady (1943) as Randy Brooks
- Idaho (1943) as Duke Springer
- Ceiling Zero (1936) as Smiley (as Dick Purcell)
- Alcatraz Island (1937) as David 'Harp' Santell
- X Marks the Spot (1942) as Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker
- The Law in Her Hands (1936) as Marty
- Mystery House (1938) as Lance O'Leary
- Man Hunt (1936) as Skip McHenry
- Outside the Three-Mile Limit (1940) as Agent Melvin Pierce
- Navy Blues (1937) as Rusty Gibbs
- The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943) as Johnny Smith
- Talent Scout (1937) as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Pittsburgh Kid (1941) as Cliff Halliday
- I Live on Danger (1942) as Norm Thompson
- Public Enemy's Wife (1936) as Louie
- Timber Queen (1944) as Milt Holmes
- Accidents Will Happen (1938) as Jim Faber
- Jailbreak (1936) as Ed Slayden
- Over the Wall (1938) as Ace Scanlon
- The Daredevil Drivers (1938) as Bill Foster
- Reveille with Beverly (1943) as Andy Adams
- Times Square Playboy (1936) as Wally Calhoun
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Most-watched Dick Purcell films currently: Flight Command (1940), The Bank Dick (1940), Bullets or Ballots (1936), Arise, My Love (1940), Tough Kid (1938).
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