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