Audie Murphy

Known for ActingBorn 1925-06-20Died 1971-05-28Kingston, Texas, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Beyond Glory

The Duel at Silver Creek

Hollywood Preview

What's My Line?

Bad Boy

The Colgate Comedy Hour

General Electric Theater

Startime

No Name on the Bullet

Cast a Long Shadow

To Hell and Back

Gunsmoke

A Time for Dying

Joe Butterfly

Night Passage

Arizona Raiders

The Quick Gun

Ride a Crooked Trail

Trunk to Cairo

Bullet for a Badman

The Red Badge of Courage

War Is Hell

The Wild and the Innocent

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Hell Bent for Leather

Posse from Hell

Gunpoint

The Unforgiven

Suspicion

Tumbleweed

Showdown

Destry

Column South

The Gun Runners

Walk the Proud Land

The Cimarron Kid

Ride Clear of Diablo

Gunfight at Comanche Creek

Apache Rifles

Six Black Horses

Seven Ways from Sundown

Kansas Raiders

The Quiet American

World in My Corner

Whispering Smith

Drums Across the River

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

The Texican