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Audie Murphy

Audie Murphy

Birthday: 1925-06-20 | Place of Birth: Kingston, Texas, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Audie Leon Murphy (June 20, 1924 – May 28, 1971)  was a fifth grade dropout from an extremely poor family who became the most decorated American soldier of World War II. After the war he became a celebrated movie star for over two decades, appearing in 44 films.  He also found some success as a country music composer. Murphy became the most decorated United States soldier of the war during twenty-seven months in action in the European Theatre.  He received the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military's highest award for valor, along with 32 additional U.S. and foreign medals and citations, including five from France and one from Belgium. Murphy's successful movie career included To Hell and Back (1955), based on his book of the same title (1949) . He died in a plane crash in 1971 and was interred, with full military honors, in Arlington National Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Audie Murphy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1969
A Time for Dying

as    Jesse James

1966
The Texican

as    Jess Carlin

1966
Trunk to Cairo

as    Mike Merrick

1965
Arizona Raiders

as    Clint Stewart

1964
The Quick Gun

as    Clint Cooper

1963
Gunfight at Comanche Creek

as    Bob 'Gif' Gifford aka Judd Tanner

1962
Six Black Horses

as    Ben Lane

1961
Posse from Hell

as    Banner Cole

1961
Battle at Bloody Beach

as    Craig Benson

1961
Whispering Smith

as    Tom 'Whispering' Smith

1960
The Unforgiven

as    Cash Zachary

1960
Hell Bent for Leather

as    Clay Santell

1960
Seven Ways from Sundown

as    Seven Jones

1959
No Name on the Bullet

as    John Gant

1959
Cast a Long Shadow

as    Matt Brown

1959
The Wild and the Innocent

as    Yancey

1958
Ride a Crooked Trail

as    Joe Maybe

1958
The Gun Runners

as    Sam Martin

1958
The Quiet American

as    The American

1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat

as    Lt. Frank Hewitt

1957
Night Passage

as    The Utica Kid

1955
To Hell and Back

as    Audie Murphy

1954
Ride Clear of Diablo

as    Clay O'Mara

1954
Drums Across the River

as    Gary Brannon

1954
Destry

as    Tom Destry

1953
Column South

as    Jed Sayre

1953
Tumbleweed

as    Jim Harvey

1953
Gunsmoke

as    Reb Kittredge

1952
The Cimarron Kid

as    Bill Doolin / The Cimarron Kid

1952
The Duel at Silver Creek

as    Luke Cromwell - The Silver Kid