Audie Murphy
Biography
Audie Leon Murphy (June 20, 1925 – 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.
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Full filmography
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) as Self
- Suspicion (1957) as Steve Gordon
- Startime (1959) as Howard Wilton
- The Unforgiven (1960) as Cash Zachary
- To Hell and Back (1955) as Audie Murphy
- General Electric Theater (1953) as Tennessee
- Destry (1954) as Tom Destry
- The Duel at Silver Creek (1952) as Luke Cromwell - The Silver Kid
- Night Passage (1957) as The Utica Kid
- Posse from Hell (1961) as Banner Cole
- Whispering Smith (1961) as Tom 'Whispering' Smith
- The Quick Gun (1964) as Clint Cooper
- Hollywood Preview (1955) as Self
- Ride a Crooked Trail (1958) as Joe Maybe
- Bullet for a Badman (1964) as Logan Keliher
- The Gun Runners (1958) as Sam Martin
- The Quiet American (1958) as The American
- The Wild and the Innocent (1959) as Yancey
- Gunpoint (1966) as Chad Lucas
- Apache Rifles (1964) as Capt. Jeff Stanton
- Seven Ways from Sundown (1960) as Seven Jones
- Kansas Raiders (1950) as Jesse James
- The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) as Lt. Frank Hewitt