Audie Murphy
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
The Unforgiven
1960
as Cash Zachary
No Name on the Bullet
1959
as John Gant
To Hell and Back
1955
as Audie Murphy
The Red Badge of Courage
1951
as The Youth
The Duel at Silver Creek
1952
as Luke Cromwell - The Silver Kid
Destry
1954
as Tom Destry
The Quiet American
1958
as The American
Apache Rifles
1964
as Capt. Jeff Stanton
Seven Ways from Sundown
1960
as Seven Jones
Cast a Long Shadow
1959
as Matt Brown
Hell Bent for Leather
1960
as Clay Santell
Sierra
1950
as Ring Hassard
The Wild and the Innocent
1959
as Yancey
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954
as Clay O'Mara
40 Guns to Apache Pass
1967
as Capt. Bruce Coburn
Night Passage
1957
as The Utica Kid
Walk the Proud Land
1956
as John Philip Clum
Bullet for a Badman
1964
as Logan Keliher
Column South
1953
as Jed Sayre
The Gun Runners
1958
as Sam Martin