Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 20, 1925
Died
May 28, 1971
Place of Birth
Kingston, Texas, USA
Credits
54 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Audie Murphy, de Colmar à Hollywood
Himself (archives)
A Time for Dying
Jesse James
40 Guns to Apache Pass
Capt. Bruce Coburn
Trunk to Cairo
Mike Merrick
The Texican
Jess Carlin
Gunpoint
Chad Lucas
Arizona Raiders
Clint Stewart
Apache Rifles
Capt. Jeff Stanton
Bullet for a Badman
Logan Keliher
The Quick Gun
Clint Cooper
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Bob 'Gif' Gifford aka Judd Tanner
Showdown
Chris Foster
Six Black Horses
Ben Lane
War Is Hell
Narrator - Introduction
Battle at Bloody Beach
Craig Benson
Whispering Smith
Tom 'Whispering' Smith
Posse from Hell
Banner Cole
Seven Ways from Sundown
Seven Jones
The Unforgiven
Cash Zachary
Hell Bent for Leather
Clay Santell
Startime
Howard Wilton
Cast a Long Shadow
Matt Brown
The Wild and the Innocent
Yancey
No Name on the Bullet
John Gant
Ride a Crooked Trail
Joe Maybe
The Gun Runners
Sam Martin
The Quiet American
The American
Suspicion
Steve Gordon
Night Passage
The Utica Kid
Joe Butterfly
Pvt. Joe Woodley
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Lt. Frank Hewitt
Walk the Proud Land
John Philip Clum
World in My Corner
Tommy Shea
To Hell and Back
Audie Murphy
Hollywood Preview
Self
Allen in Movieland
Self
Destry
Tom Destry
Drums Across the River
Gary Brannon
Ride Clear of Diablo
Clay O'Mara
Tumbleweed
Jim Harvey
Column South
Jed Sayre
Gunsmoke
Reb Kittredge
General Electric Theater
Tennessee
The Duel at Silver Creek
Luke Cromwell - The Silver Kid
The Cimarron Kid
Bill Doolin / The Cimarron Kid
The Red Badge of Courage
The Youth
Kansas Raiders
Jesse James
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Sierra
Ring Hassard
The Kid from Texas
Billy the Kid