Audie Murphy
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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
Credits
The Unforgiven (1960)
as Cash Zachary
Destry (1954)
as Tom Destry
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
as John Gant
Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)
as Seven Jones
Night Passage (1957)
as The Utica Kid
Bullet for a Badman (1964)
as Logan Keliher
The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
as Luke Cromwell - The Silver Kid
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
as The Youth
Kansas Raiders (1950)
as Jesse James
Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
as Joe Maybe
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)
as Lt. Frank Hewitt
Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
as Bob 'Gif' Gifford aka Judd Tanner
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
as Clay O'Mara
The Cimarron Kid (1952)
as Bill Doolin / The Cimarron Kid
The Quiet American (1958)
as The American
Hell Bent for Leather (1960)
as Clay Santell
The Quick Gun (1964)
as Clint Cooper
The Gun Runners (1958)
as Sam Martin
Arizona Raiders (1965)
as Clint Stewart
Posse from Hell (1961)
as Banner Cole
Trunk to Cairo (1966)
as Mike Merrick
The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
as Yancey
Beyond Glory (1948)
as Cadet Thomas
The Texican (1966)
as Jess Carlin
40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967)
as Capt. Bruce Coburn
Drums Across the River (1954)
as Gary Brannon
Apache Rifles (1964)
as Capt. Jeff Stanton
Walk the Proud Land (1956)
as John Philip Clum
Sierra (1950)
as Ring Hassard
A Time for Dying (1969)
as Jesse James
The Kid from Texas (1950)
as Billy the Kid
Gunpoint (1966)
as Chad Lucas
Gunsmoke (1953)
as Reb Kittredge
To Hell and Back (1955)
as Audie Murphy
Joe Butterfly (1957)
as Pvt. Joe Woodley
Six Black Horses (1962)
as Ben Lane
Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
as Matt Brown
Battle at Bloody Beach (1961)
as Craig Benson
World in My Corner (1956)
as Tommy Shea
Allen in Movieland (1955)
as Self
Column South (1953)
as Jed Sayre
Tumbleweed (1953)
as Jim Harvey
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
as Copy Boy
Showdown (1963)
as Chris Foster
War Is Hell (1961)
as Narrator - Introduction
Bad Boy (1949)
as Danny Lester
Audie Murphy, de Colmar à Hollywood (2025)
as Himself (archives)