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Audie Murphy
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.
As actor
Audie Murphy, de Colmar à Hollywood
A Time for Dying
40 Guns to Apache Pass
The Texican
Gunpoint
Trunk to Cairo
Arizona Raiders
The Quick Gun
Bullet for a Badman
Apache Rifles
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Showdown
Six Black Horses
Battle at Bloody Beach
Posse from Hell
War Is Hell
The Unforgiven
Seven Ways from Sundown
Hell Bent for Leather
The Wild and the Innocent
No Name on the Bullet
Cast a Long Shadow
Ride a Crooked Trail
The Gun Runners
The Quiet American
Night Passage
Joe Butterfly
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Walk the Proud Land
World in My Corner