Person Details

Birthday: 1924-06-20 05:50:01

Death: 1971-05-28 05:50:01

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Kingston, Texas, USA

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Movie Involvements: 44

TV Involvements: 3


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Audie Leon Murphy (June 20, 1924 – 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Audie Murphy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Suspicion
Average
6

Suspicion

(1957) Steve Gordon
What's My Line?
Average
7

What's My Line?

(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
Whispering Smith
Average
5

Whispering Smith

(1961) Tom 'Whispering' Smith
The Unforgiven
Average
6

The Unforgiven

(1960) Cash Zachary
Gunpoint
Average
6

Gunpoint

(1966) Chad Lucas
Night Passage
Average
6

Night Passage

(1957) The Utica Kid
Cast a Long Shadow
Average
6

Cast a Long Shadow

(1959) Matt Brown
To Hell and Back
Average
7

To Hell and Back

(1955) Audie Murphy

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1969 Jesse James
1967 Capt. Bruce Coburn
1966 Jess Carlin
Mike Merrick
Chad Lucas
1965 Clint Stewart
1964 Capt. Jeff Stanton
Logan Keliher
Clint Cooper
1963 Bob 'Gif' Gifford aka Judd Tanner
Chris Foster
1962 Ben Lane
1961 Narrator - Introduction
Craig Benson
Tom 'Whispering' Smith
Banner Cole
1960 Seven Jones
Cash Zachary
Clay Santell
1959 Matt Brown
Yancey
John Gant
1958 Joe Maybe
Sam Martin
The American
1957 Steve Gordon
The Utica Kid
Pvt. Joe Woodley
Lt. Frank Hewitt
1956 John Philip Clum
Tommy Shea
1955 Audie Murphy
Self
Self
1954 Tom Destry
Gary Brannon
Clay O'Mara
1953 Jim Harvey
Jed Sayre
Reb Kittredge
Tennessee
1952 Luke Cromwell - The Silver Kid
Bill Doolin / The Cimarron Kid
1951 The Youth
1950 Jesse James
Self
Ring Hassard
Billy the Kid
Self - Mystery Guest
1949 Danny Lester
1948 Cadet Thomas
Copy Boy
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1969 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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