Audie Murphy
Birthday: 1925-06-20 | Place of Birth: Kingston, Texas, USAFrom 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.
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Acting
Role
as Jesse James
as Jess Carlin
as Mike Merrick
as Clint Stewart
as Clint Cooper
as Bob 'Gif' Gifford aka Judd Tanner
as Ben Lane
as Banner Cole
as Craig Benson
as Tom 'Whispering' Smith
as Cash Zachary
as Clay Santell
as Seven Jones
as John Gant
as Matt Brown
as Yancey
as Joe Maybe
as Sam Martin
as The American
as Lt. Frank Hewitt
as The Utica Kid
as Audie Murphy
as Clay O'Mara
as Gary Brannon
as Tom Destry
as Jed Sayre
as Jim Harvey
as Reb Kittredge
as Bill Doolin / The Cimarron Kid
as Luke Cromwell - The Silver Kid
