Stanley Tucci has been cast as Dr. Abraham Erskine in Captain America:  The First Avenger, Marvel Studios announced today.  Erskine was the German scientist behind Project Rebirth, the experiment that resulted in the creation of Captain America, in the early comics. 

Tucci joins Chris Evans in the title role; Neal McDonough was the most recent other addition to the cast, as Dum Dum Dugan (see “Cap Casting”).