Audie Murphy

American soldier and actor (1925–1971)

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To hell and back

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Film & TV

Acting · Kingston, 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…

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Audie Murphy, de Colmar à Hollywood — Himself (archives)2025
A Time for Dying — Jesse James1969
40 Guns to Apache Pass — Capt. Bruce Coburn1967
The Texican — Jess Carlin1966
Gunpoint — Chad Lucas1966
Trunk to Cairo — Mike Merrick1966
Arizona Raiders — Clint Stewart1965
The Quick Gun — Clint Cooper1964
Bullet for a Badman — Logan Keliher1964
Apache Rifles — Capt. Jeff Stanton1964

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1925
Active to: 1971

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 26
Total plays: 85

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Recent publications · Crossref

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DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
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A modified single solution method for the determination of phosphate in natural waters
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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
Planck2015 results
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Music

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Quotes

“Loyalty to your comrades, when you come right down to it, has more to do with bravery in battle than even patriotism does. You may want to be brave, but your spirit can desert you when things really get rough. Only you find you can't let your comrades down and in the pinch they can't let you down either.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1925-06-20 ) June 20, 1925 , Kingston, Texas , U.S.
Died: May 28, 1971 (1971-05-28) (aged 45), 14 nautical miles northwest of Roanoke, Virginia , U.S.
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery
Allegiance: United States
Branch: United States Army Texas Army National Guard United States Army Reserve
Service years: 1942–1945 (active) 1950–1966 (National Guard) 1966–1969 (reserve)
Rank: First lieutenant (active) Major (National Guard)
Service number: 18083707 (enlisted) O-1692509 (officer)
Unit: 15th Infantry Regiment 3rd Infantry Division 36th Infantry Division
Conflicts: World War II Tunisia Sicily Naples-Foggia Anzio Rome-Arno Southern France Ardennes-Alsace Rhineland Central Europe
Spouses: Wanda Hendrix ( married"}]]}'>m. 1949 ; divorced"}]]}'>div. 1951 ) Pamela Opal Lee Archer ( married"}]]}'>m. 1951 )
Other work: Actor songwriter rancher
Website: audiemurphy .com

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Official website

Audie L. Murphy Memorial Website

Official website and an educational resource on Audie L. Murphy, most decorated American veteran of World War II.

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Official website: www.audiemurphy.com
Image: Audie Murphy.jpg
Height: 166

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date of birth: 1925-06-20
date of death: 1971-05-28
Commons category: Audie Murphy
Commons gallery: Audie Murphy
name in native language: Audie Leon Murphy
start of work period: 1945-00-00
end of work period: 1969-00-00
birth name: Audie Leon Murphy

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Article

Audie Leon Murphy (June 20, 1925 – May 28, 1971) was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history. He received every military combat award for valor available from the United States Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. Murphy received the Medal of Honor for valor that he demonstrated at age 19 for single-handedly holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, before leading a successful counterattack while wounded.

Murphy was born into a large family of sharecroppers in Hunt County, Texas. His father abandoned the family and his mother died when Murphy was a teenager. Murphy left school in fifth grade to pick cotton and find other work to help support his family; his skill with a hunting rifle helped feed his family. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Murphy's older sister helped him to falsify documentation about his birthdate to meet the minimum age for enlisting in the military. Turned down initially for being underweight by the Army, Navy, and the Marine Corps, he eventually was able to enlist in the Army. He first saw action in the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily; then in 1944 he participated in the Battle of Anzio, the liberation of Rome, and the invasion of southern France. Murphy fought at Montélimar and led his men on a successful assault at L'Omet quarry near Cleurie in northeastern France in October. Despite suffering from multiple illnesses and wounds throughout his service, Murphy became one of the most praised and decorated soldiers of World War II. He is credited with killing 241 enemy soldiers.