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Audie Murphy
Known for: ActingAudie 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 41
Destry
as Tom Destry 
The Cimarron Kid
as Bill Doolin / The Cimarron Kid 
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Lt. Frank Hewitt 
Apache Rifles
as Capt. Jeff Stanton 
The Unforgiven
as Cash Zachary 
Whispering Smith
as Tom 'Whispering' Smith 
Ride Clear of Diablo
as Clay O'Mara 
The Texican
as Jess Carlin 
No Name on the Bullet
as John Gant 
Bullet for a Badman
as Logan Keliher 
To Hell and Back
as Audie Murphy 
Gunpoint
as Chad Lucas 
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
as Bob 'Gif' Gifford aka Judd Tanner 
Night Passage
as The Utica Kid 
Posse from Hell
as Banner Cole 
Seven Ways from Sundown
as Seven Jones 
The Duel at Silver Creek
as Luke Cromwell - The Silver Kid 
The Kid from Texas
as Billy the Kid 
Six Black Horses
as Ben Lane 
Ride a Crooked Trail
as Joe Maybe 
The Wild and the Innocent
as Yancey 
The Quick Gun
as Clint Cooper 
Cast a Long Shadow
as Matt Brown 
40 Guns to Apache Pass
as Capt. Bruce Coburn 
Walk the Proud Land
as John Philip Clum 
Hell Bent for Leather
as Clay Santell 
The Red Badge of Courage
as The Youth 
The Quiet American
as The American 
Sierra
as Ring Hassard 
Drums Across the River
as Gary Brannon 
Showdown
as Chris Foster 
Kansas Raiders
as Jesse James 
Column South
as Jed Sayre 
Arizona Raiders
as Clint Stewart 
A Time for Dying
as Jesse James 
The Gun Runners
as Sam Martin 
World in My Corner
as Tommy Shea 
Gunsmoke
as Reb Kittredge 
Bad Boy
as Danny Lester 
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Copy Boy 
Tumbleweed
as Jim Harvey