Audie Murphy

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Audie Leon Murphy is an American actor born the June 20th 1924 with Kingston, the Texas, and is deceased at the time of an air crash the May 28th 1971 close to Roanoke, in Virginia (the United States).

Raised in a modest family of farm laborers of ten children, Audie Leon Murphy engages in the infantry after short studies. He is regarded as one of the soldiers most decorated with the Second world war (about thirty medals of which the Medal off Honor ).

He makes its first film Beyond the Glory in 1948 with Alan Ladd. In 1949, it marries the young actress Wanda Hendrix (which it divorces the following year) and turns its first personal success Bad Boy of Kurt Neumann. He marries in second weddings Pamela Archer in 1951 with which there will remain married until his death. In the Fifties, he becomes a star appreciated of the public and turns with prestigious directors like John Huston or Budd Boetticher. He will turn a score of westerns of series B for the studios Universal Pictures. In 1955, it holds the high-speed motorboat in the hell of the men , put in scene by Jesse Hibbs and drawn from its autobiography. He writes the scenarios of many his films and takes part in their production. All that brings fortune to him but there remains confined in popular films. It will find its best role in quite quiet American , of Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Will follow one decade when its passion of the play will oblige it to agree to play in increasingly poor productions. It is directed at the same time towards television and interprets the detective Tom Smith in Whispering Smith in 1961 for the chain CBS. Ruined by the failures of its last films and by a not very scrupulous business man, weakened by the abuse drugs and drugs, shown attempted murder by one of its neighbors, Audie Murphy is a star déchue. It tries a like back while producing and interpreting a Jesse James growing old in Which draws the first ( has Time for Dying ) put in scene by Budd Boetticher but it will not see finished film.

Its body is buried with the military honors with the national cemetery of Arlington (Washinghton D.C).

Catalog of films

1948 : Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven , of William Castle
1948: Return without hope ( Beyond Glory ), of John Farrow
1949: Boys out of cage ( Bad Servant boy ), of Kurt Neumann
1950: the Head of innocent a ( Sierra ), of Alfred E. Green
1950: Kid of Texas ( The Kid from Texas ), of Kurt Neumann
1950: Kansas on fire ( Kansas Raiders ), of Ray Enright
1951: the victorious Load ( The Red Badge off Courage ), of John Huston
1952: With fire and blood ( The Cimarron Kid ), of Budd Boetticher
1952: Duel without mercy ( The Duel At Silver Creek ), of Gift Siegel
1953: the Killer of Montana ( Gunsmoke ), of Nathan Juran
1953: the Heroic lieutenant ( Column South ), of Frederick De Cordova
1953: Which is the Master ( Tumbleweed ), of Nathan Juran
1954: the Ride of the devil ( Wrinkle Clear off Diablo ), of Jesse Hibbs
1954: the bloody River ( Drums Across to rivet ), of Nathan Juran
1954: the Cleaner ( Destry ), of George Marshall
1955: the Hell of the men ( To Hell and Back ), of Jesse Hibbs
1956: Ten seconds of silence ( World in My Corner ), of Jesse Hibbs
1956: the Man of San Carlos ( Walk the Proud Land ), of Jesse Hibbs
1957: the Fort of the last chance ( The Guns off Strong Petticoat ), of George Marshall
1957: Joe Butterfly , of Jesse Hibbs
1957: the Survivor of the remote mounts ( Night Passage ), of James Neilson
1958: a quite quiet American ( Calm The American ), of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1958: the broken Star ( Ride has Crooked Trail ), of Jesse Hibbs
1958: Traffickers of weapons in Cuba ( The Gun Runners ), of Gift Siegel
1959: a signed ball X ( No Name one the Bullet ), of Jack Arnold
1959: the solitary Brawler ( The Wild and the Innocent ), of Jack Sher
1959: Cast has Long Shadow , of Thomas Carr
1960: Devil in the skin ( Hell Bent for Leather ), of George Sherman
1960: Wind of the plain ( The Unforgiven ), of John Huston
1960: Seven ways of setting the ( Seven Ways from Sundown ), of Harry Keller
1961: Riders of the hell ( Installation from Hell ), of Herbert Coleman
1961: Whispering Smith , of Edward Ludlum (series TV)
1961: the Battle of Bloody Beach ( Battle At Bloody Beach ), of Herbert Coleman
1962: Six horses in the plain ( Six Black Horses ), of Harry Keller
1963: To stick It iron ( Showdown ), of R.G. Springsteen
1963 : War Is Hell , of Burt Topper
1963: Duel in Colorado ( Gunfight At Comanche Creek ), of Frank McDonald
1964: Fire without summation ( The Quick Gun ), of Sidney Salkow
1964: Patrol of violence ( Bullet for has Badman ), of R.G. Springsteen
1964 : Fury of Apaches ( Apache Riffles ), of William Witney
1965: Reprisals in Arizona ( Arizona Raiders ), of William Witney
1966: I call the Colt ( Gunpoint ), of Earl Bellamy
1966: a trunk for Cairo ( Trunk to Cairo ), of Menahem Golan and Raphael Nussbaum
1966: Texas Kid ( The Texican ), of Lesley Selander
1967: Forty rifles miss with the call ( 40 Guns to Apache Pass ), of William Witney
1969: Which draws the first ( has Time for Dying ), of Budd Boetticher

Principal decorations

Medal off Honor
Distinguished Service Cross-country race
Silver Star (2)
Legion off Merit
Bronze Star Medal (2)
Purple Heart (3)
Legion of honor
Military Cross 1939-1945 with palm

External bonds

Audie Murphy on Internet Movie Database
the Biography of Audie Murphy on Western Movies
Article on Audie Murphy on Runmovies.be

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