Texas Police Man Arrests Audie Murphys Robber

If there'd exist whatsoever glory in war,
Let it rest on men similar him.

Audie Leon Spud (June xx, 1924 – May 28, 1971) was the single most decorated US soldier of all time.

Born in rural Texas, he was the 6th out of twelve children in a poor Scots-Irish gaelic family unit reputed to have Cherokee beginnings. Two of his siblings died before reaching adulthood. As the eldest boy still living at home when his begetter deserted the family, he was forced to back up his mother and younger siblings, past various odd jobs and sustenance hunting. He could kill pocket-sized, fast-moving targets similar rabbits and squirrels with a slingshot, which already says a lot about his marksmanship skills, but he proved even better with a light .22 rifle. Due to the poverty of his family unit and the fact that the people who tried to help them out were not much better off, he oft had to go out hunting with but a single cartridge in his gun. If he didn't kill something edible with his starting time shot, his family would go hungry. When his female parent died, he was obliged to put his youngest siblings in an orphanage, simply he dreamed of earning plenty money to reunite the family and provide for them.

When Pearl Harbor was attacked, he tried to join the US Army, merely was turned downwardly for being underage. He tried over again, this time to all 3 branches plus the paratroopers and Regular army Air Corps, lying about his age using an contradistinct nascency certificate. He was turned down by the Marines, Air Corps, and Paratroopers for being too short, and by the Navy for existence underweight. The Army, however, finally accepted him. During training at Fort Meade, he passed out in a drill practise; his commander tried to have him transferred to cooks' school, but he wouldn't have any of that.

His first taste of combat was in Sicily, killing two Italian officers as they tried to escape, gaining him a promotion to Corporal. Information technology was in Sicily that he contracted malaria, which would afflict him throughout the war. He connected to receive promotions on the Italian mainland, outset to Sergeant after killing three German soldiers and capturing several others when ambushed during a patrol, and once more to Staff Sergeant at Anzio when his all-time friend, Lattie Tipton, was killed by a German machine gunner pretending to give up, sending him into a rage, killing the entire auto gun crew that killed his friend, then comandeering their machine gun and grenades, turning them on nearby German positions, and destroying anything not wearing the correct uniform. Then he went back to Tipton'due south trunk to keep watch over it, and completely shut down until the medics came to take the body abroad. His attack on the Germans earned him the Distinguished Service Cross, second only to the Medal of Award, and made him Platoon Sergeant. In later years, Murphy often lamented that all his friend Tipton got out of that action was a wooden cross higher up his grave, and Spud is reputed to have given his DSC to Tipton's daughter in memory of the upshot. His division sustained 4500 casualties after entering French republic, and he was somewhen given a field commission to 2nd Lieutenant and made platoon leader, during which he received two Silver Stars.

The activity that earned him the Medal of Honor occurred Jan 26, 1945, in Holtzwihr, during the liberation of Alsace (Eastern France). Murphy's company was reduced from 128 to nineteen. The Germans had likewise knocked out all but six of the M10 Tank Destroyers supporting his company. Potato sent his remaining men to the rear while he kept firing at the Germans with his M1 Carbine until he ran out of ammunition, and so climbed aboard an abandoned and burning M10 (with a full fuel tank and ammo rack, and presumably near to explode), using its M2 .50 caliber to obliterate an unabridged German visitor, using a land telephone to directly artillery fire, falling back only when his communications line was cut. He then led his men in a counter attack, driving the Germans from Holtzwihr. He was promoted over again to First Lieutenant a calendar month later. When he was asked later what it was like on that burning tank, Murphy would respond that "it was the only time that winter that my feet were warm."

His Medal of Honor citation reads:

Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Regular army, Company B 15th Infantry, tertiary Infantry Segmentation.

Identify and date: Virtually Holtzwihr France, January 26, 1945.

Entered service at: Dallas, Texas. Nascency: Hunt County, near Kingston, Texas, G.O. No. 65, August 9, 1944.

Citation: Second Lt. Tater commanded Company B, which was attacked by vi tanks and waves of infantry. 2d Lt. Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to a prepared position in a woods, while he remained forrad at his command post and continued to give burn down directions to the arms by telephone. Behind him, to his correct, ane of our tank destroyers received a direct hit and began to burn down. Its crew withdrew to the woods. 2d Lt. Spud continued to direct artillery fire, which killed large numbers of the advancing enemy infantry. With the enemy tanks abreast of his position, 2d Lt. Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer, which was in danger of blowing up at any moment, and employed its .50 quotient machine gun against the enemy. He was alone and exposed to German burn down from 3 sides, but his deadly fire killed dozens of Germans and caused their infantry attack to waver. The enemy tanks, losing infantry support, began to autumn dorsum. For an hour the Germans tried every bachelor weapon to eliminate 2nd Lt. Murphy, but he connected to concur his position and wiped out a squad that was trying to creep up unnoticed on his right flank. Germans reached as shut equally ten yards, only to be mowed downward by his fire. He received a leg wound, only ignored it and continued his single-handed fight until his ammunition was exhausted. He then made his way dorsum to his visitor, refused medical attention, and organized the visitor in a counterattack, which forced the Germans to withdraw. His directing of artillery fire wiped out many of the enemy; he killed or wounded about 50. second Lt. Murphy'due south indomitable courage and his refusal to give an inch of basis saved his company from possible encirclement and destruction, and enabled it to concur the forest which had been the enemy's objective.

For all his actions, he was awarded every decoration for valour available to Us Ground forces ground troops at the time, iv French decorations and the Belgian Croix de guerre, as well as the Combat Infantryman Badge, Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar and Expert Badge with Bayonet Component Bar.

After the war, he helped his family go back on their feet, became a training instructor with the Texas National Guard during the Korean War, wrote an autobiography, To Hell and Back , and started a movie career, somewhen making his autobiography into a movie in 1955. It became the highest-grossing flick Universal Studios had made upward to that point, and remained and then until the release of Jaws nearly twenty years later. To Hell And Back proved surprisingly popular in Japan, perhaps due to the main character'due south warrior ethos and family unit loyalty. He appeared in a total of 44 films, mostly b-westerns that traded on the Memetic Badass status he held in the minds of his own generation, and their children, the infant boomers.

He had ever loved horses, and used the proceeds from the film version of his autobiography to purchase a ranch where he could breed racing Quarter Horses. He fabricated friends with a number of policemen, and became involved in the state of war on drugs later visiting a cocaine addict's home with a police friend and seeing the aficionado'southward two small-scale daughters playing on the dirty floor with no one to look afterwards them.

The filming of Guns of Fort Petticoat sums up his mail-war life pretty well. He not but produced and starred in this picture show, about a cavalry officer who goes rogue in social club to teach a grouping of women how to fight off an Indian attack, he besides trained the actresses in real life for the chore, using his experience in the Army and the Texas National Guard to teach them gun safety and germination drills. On the side, he worked as an undercover narcotics amanuensis, helping bring about some twenty convictions. He also rescued an abused German Shepherd puppy by ownership it from its cruel possessor.

In The '60s, he starred in a short-lived Tv set series chosen Whispering Smith, about a forensics-minded constable in 1870s Denver. Tater usually described it as "Dragnet on horseback," but it ran into controversy over its slightly Darker and Edgier treatment of frontier-era Denver and over a disturbing episode involving a widow who abuses her developed son (a very immature Robert Redford) with a whip. Murphy's film westerns of this catamenia were also somewhat Darker and Edgier, although they were nonetheless pretty idealistic compared to the rising tide of Spaghetti Westerns and revisionist Westerns bent on Deconstruction or just violence and grimdarkness for their own sake. He appeared in an Israeli James Bond knockoff, where his folksy, low-central mental attitude sort of accidentally deconstructs the Tuxedo and Martini school of spy movie without quite pushing things into Dried Beer territory. He co-wrote some moderately well-known Country Music songs, including Shutters and Boards, When the Air current Blows in Chicago, and Was It All Worth Losing You? He also advocated for sufferers of PTSD. He too suffered from PTSD, and his md prescribed Placidyl to help him sleep. He discovered that he had become fond to the drug. Instead of whatsoever orthodox treatment, such as weaning off or therapy, he went another route: he rented out a hotel room, locked the door, and went cold-turkey for an entire calendar week to get off the addiction.

He was tried for attempted murder in 1970, subsequently getting into a fistfight with a massive, six-foot-three human being who trained guard dogs for a living. In the grade of the trial, it was discovered that the dog-trainer had driveling a German Shepherd belonging to a female friend of Tater. The trainer had also groped and verbally abused the woman when she protested. Unsurprisingly, Murphy was acquitted. His defense was, "If I wanted to kill you, you'd be dead," and anyone familiar with his war record (which would exist most of the free world) knew he was perfectly capable of backing it up. Several members of the jury shook his mitt after the verdict was handed downwardly. Information technology is not clear whether they were fans of his film work, or simply liked his tendency to Pay Evil unto Evil.

He died May 28, 1971, when the private plane he was riding in crashed in Virginia. It seems strangely fitting, given his patriotism and war record, that his trunk was recovered from the wreckage on Memorial Day of that yr. According to an obituary in TIME mag, he was relaying data near the mafia to the Los Angeles DA's office in the concluding months of his life. He was buried with all honors at Arlington, and his gravesite is the second near visited grave, later on JFK's, of a named individual at Arlington. He is the namesake to the VA (Veterans' Administration) Hospital located in San Antonio, Texas, which opened to veterans in November 1973. There is a petition under style, campaigning to have the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to him posthumously...and no, he didn't already have one of those. The petition can be establish online at: http://world wide web.ipetitions.com/petition/audiemurphy/

Audie Murphy shows examples of:

• Autobiographical Role: As a thirty-something movie star, he played the teenaged/young adult versions of himself in the Film of the War Memoir To Hell and Back.
  • Likewise, (President) Dwight D. Eisenhower portrayed himself in the flick.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Soft spoken, excruciatingly polite, fond of children, horses and dogs. But absolutely the last person you wanted to tangle with. Spud reputedly once frightened a drunken, misbehaving Lawrence Tierney, one of the more notorious brawlers in Hollywood, into leaving a party without raising his phonation or physically harming Tierney.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Was considered an introvert and not much of a talker, even past his closest friends.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: Reportedly, during the action that led to him earning the Medal of Honor, he was asked through the field phone where the Germans were, and Potato told them that he should be able to allow one of the Germans speak to them in a moment.
• Chest of Medals: Encounter above. And unlike some others, he earned every unmarried 1 of them!
• Cool Auto: In the sixties, he owned a Lincoln "kustomized" by George Barris, the aforementioned man who gave the earth the Black Beauty and Adam Westward'due south Batmobile.
• Cool Horse: Owned a stable total of Cool Quarter Horses, breeding some very successful racing horses and showhorses from the stock he endemic. In his fifties westerns, he sometimes rode a flashy bay named Flight John. His main Whispering Smith mount was a fiery stallion he personally owned, named Joe Queen. Joe, beingness a retired racehorse, was so fast that they had to become a stunt double for the galloping scenes so that he wouldn't outrun Tater's sidekick's horse.
• Deadpan Snarker: The attempted murder trial hinged in part on whether he had fired a gunshot at the other man. When a journalist bugged him nearly this before the trial, he retorted: "I would think it injurious to my reputation to suppose that I could fire a shot at so large a target and miss."
  • During the fight that got him the Medal of Honor, a Sergeant, whom Potato was in contact by phone, asked Spud if he was alright. Murphy replied, "I'g alright, sergeant. What are your postwar plans?"
• Death Glare: Although he did occasionally get angry enough to raise his vocalism, a hostile glare and a few soft-spoken but threatening words from him were enough to go most normal people to dorsum down. The manager of Large Jake fabricated 1 and a half movies with him, then quit after an statement where Irish potato leaned forward and glared into his face. The managing director thought "Holy ***, this guy's killed how many Germans and the only thing I've e'er done is run over a cat on the freeway! I'm doomed!" And quit on the spot. They reconciled to some extent, but the director refused to work with Murphy again. "I'm non directing anybody I'm afraid of," he would say. (Nobody actually knows what the argument was nigh. The director claimed information technology was creative differences near how to handle a piece of dialogue, just a friend of both men claimed that Murphy was angry at the director for threatening to fire a crew member or supporting actor, probably a friend of Murphy's, in the middle of a poker game.)
• Determinator: His attempts to join the armed services, and his accomplishments in compatible, show this side of his personality pretty conspicuously. His motion picture characters were pretty much the aforementioned: it didn't matter whether you were dealing with The Hero version, the Anti-Hero version, or one of his rare Villain Protagonist characters, if Audie Murphy came gunning for you lot in the movies, the only sensible thing to do was pick out the inscription on your tombstone.
• Embarrassing First Proper noun: Disliked the proper name "Audie" when he was a kid and usually went by his heart name, Leon. In the Army, he discovered that "Leon" was considered redneck, and spent the remainder of his life going by "Audie" or "Murph."
• Expy: Pulp western novelist J.T. Edson created a character named Dusty Fog based on Murphy, and a thinly disguised version of Murphy appears in i of Stephen Hunter'due south novels. Fredrick Zoller in Inglourious Basterds is sort of a Mirror Universe Nazi analogue to White potato. Robert Stack cited Murphy as a partial inspiration for his take on Elliot Ness in The Untouchables. The author of First Blood cited Tater every bit a partial inspiration for John Rambo, although fifty-fifty in his more troubled moments Potato was a lot more functional than Rambo. An expy of Murphy also shows upward, along with expies of other influential gunfighters, as office of a Badass Crew Earl Swagger recruits in Stephen Hunter'south Pale Horse Coming.

• Fiery Redhead: Well, brownish hair with a carmine sheen that is only visible on really good quality copies of his films. But his hot temper and Irish surname guaranteed that reporters would annotate on that carmine sheen, all the fourth dimension.
• Friend to All Children: His tough babyhood and experiences equally a surrogate parent to his younger siblings made him a softie towards children in general, showering his ii sons with expensive gifts and doing the same to various nieces, nephews and children of friends. When shooting a film in Vietnam in the late fifties, he was so horrified by the poverty he saw there and its effect on children that he basically emptied his banking concern account into an orphanage in Saigon.

• The Gunslinger: Usually Type D. Supposedly within a few days of the studio hiring someone to teach him the quick draw, Murphy was outdrawing the instructor. Of class, by that point in his life Tater was exceptionally experienced at using firearms of every type to kill people who were trying to impale him.
• Heroic BSoD: What led to the action that won him the Distinguished Service Cantankerous was seeing his best friend killed by a German language machine gun coiffure pretending to surrender.

• Jumped at the Call: Started trying to enlist almost as soon as he heard well-nigh the assail on Pearl Harbor. Tended to volunteer for any dangerous mission that came up.
• Kinda Busy Here: In the boxing that earned Murphy his Medal of Honour, officers in the rear radioed him to ask how close the Germans were. His response before signing out? "Hold on and I'll let yous talk to 1."
• Lighter and Softer: Between Hollywood censorship, interference from the Regular army, and his own modesty, the film version of To Hell And Dorsum suffers from this. He's also unique in being one of the few Hollywood leading men whose characters were consistently badass, and withal consistently wimpier than he was.
• Majorly Awesome: Post-obit the war, he joined the Texas Militia and was eventually promoted to Major.
• Mugging the Monster: A 6-foot-two drifter tried to carjack him in Texas in the tardily forties. Said drifter got his rear end handed to him. In Hollywood, various macho types took ane look at the little man with all the medals and thought they could accept him on. According to Potato's friend Budd Boetticher, they invariably got curb-stomped.

• Prissy to the Waiter: His friends in Hollywood were mostly graphic symbol actors and film crew members (cameramen, makeup artists, horse wranglers, stunt people both male person and female), and he was oftentimes protective of them, and tried to help them succeed in their careers. There is also a story of him staying with a wealthy friend in Dallas, and bravado off a party total of bigshots to become hang out with the (African American) kitchen staff and compliment them on their cooking.
• Noodle Implements: Kenneth Tobey fabricated a couple of movies with Murphy, and once accepted Irish potato'south offer of a lift out to the remote location where they were shooting. Tobey was somewhat alarmed to discover that Murphy kept handcuffs, chains, guns, and a live rattlesnake in his automobile.
• Noodle Incident: Information on how and why he was promoted to 2nd Lt. is surprisingly difficult to detect, although his unit suffered significant casualties and the Ground forces's standard procedure at the time mostly boiled downward to "promote the nearly experienced guy still standing."
• Obligatory War Law-breaking Scene: Possibly the Trope Maker if not Ur-Example. In his movie, he shows himself gunning down retreating High german soldiers. He left that part in to show War Is Hell. Technically speaking, whilst unsporting, most nations exercise non regard shooting retreating soldiers equally a war offense, as a retreat is nevertheless a military office.
• Older Than They Expect: He was in his early on thirties when he played his seventeen/eighteen-year-old cocky in To Hell And Dorsum. He continued to play youthful characters fairly convincingly upwardly until the early sixties, when he was near twoscore.
• I-Man Ground forces: While all the same bandaged from an earlier wound, he was wounded by mortar fragments in two feet of snow at -14F. When the ammunition for his personal weapon ran out, he climbed on a burning tank destroyer, that could explode at any minute, and used the .50 caliber auto gun to continue to lay a withering burn at the enemy, while calling down highly accurate artillery fire confronting the enemy. He received a further leg wound during this stage of the boxing, which LASTED OVER AN Hour, nether constant assault from, every bit the commendation for his Medal of Honor reads, "vi tanks, supported past waves of infantry". When the survivors of his squad regrouped with reinforcements, he personally led a counter-attack that forced an enemy withdrawal. Co-ordinate to his citation, he personally killed more 50 soldiers in that battle. He also had malaria since the Italian campaign. Didn't get it cured until later on the war was over.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He was only 5'v" during his military machine service, eventually growing to 5'8" in his early twenties afterward he returned to civilian life and started getting decent nutrient. The Marines and Regular army Air Corps actually rejected him for beingness too short, and the Navy for being underweight, but 110 pounds. In the Army one of his commanding officers tried to have him transferred as a cook. Tater's list under Everything Is Big in Texas puts it this way: Audie wasn't small; he was condensed.
• The Prankster: Noted in real life for his wacky gags, ranging from giving a co-star a hot human foot, to leaving frogs and snails effectually the house for his married woman to notice, to handing a friend an envelope and convincing him that information technology was full of rattlesnake eggs in the process of hatching. His finest achievement in this direction was probably when he was staying with a prominent denizen during the US publicity tour for The Quiet American. Murphy used toothpaste to cream upwardly his mouth and claimed that he had developed some dire disease during the shoot in Vietnam and Rome, Italy, creating a minor wellness panic in his upper form hosts. Nobody e'er saw his pranks coming, due to his generally quiet demeanor, but the victims ordinarily agreed that they were Really Pretty Funny.
• Promoted Fanboy: Gossip announcer David "Spec" McClure was fascinated past Spud's armed forces career and bundled to meet him when Tater was filming his first supporting part in a film. The two became practiced friends, with McClure co-writing To Hell and Back, both the book and the moving-picture show script, and acting every bit an informal press agent for Spud. Murphy's 2nd married woman, Pamela, was also something of an Promoted Fangirl. She had been trying to run across him ever since she saw him on the cover of Life mag in the mid-forties, and finally succeeded in the early on fifties. They dated steadily while the divorce from his first wife was finalized, married shortly thereafter, and despite some rough periods remained married until his death.
• Prophetic Names: An elderberry sister chose "Leon" as a middle name for him when he was born. She had no idea that it meant "lion," a symbol of strength and backbone in many cultures, or how appropriate that would turn out to be.
• Rank Upwards: Potato shipped out in 1942 every bit a buck private, rapidly made corporal in Sicily, was practically sewing on a new stripe every month during his time on the Italian mainland, and finished the state of war equally a 1st Lieutenant.
• Rage Confronting the Reflection: Recounted an accidental version of this trope in To Hell and Back, which also made it into the movie. While clearing a business firm during a firefight in Italian republic, Murphy rounded a corner, saw a homo in filthy fatigues pointing a weapon at him, and reflexively sprayed his Thompson SMG at the threat, only to discover that he had shot his own reflection in a total-length mirror. Murphy's buddies found it hilarious (Murphy himself even admitted that information technology was Actually Pretty Funny), with 1 of them joking "That's the first time I e'er saw a Texan crush himself to the draw!"
• Real-Life Relative: In i of his early on movies, he played the dearest involvement to a female protagonist, played by and then-wife Wanda Hendrix. His preschool-aged son Terry played one of his younger siblings in To Hell and Back (1955), and, equally a teenager had a small role in Irish potato's very last moving picture, A Fourth dimension for Dying.
• Reality Is Unrealistic: Portions of his military career were left out of his autobiographical flick To Hell and Back considering he didn't recall anyone would believe him.

• Roaring Binge of Revenge: The actions that earned him the Distinguished Service Cross. Some of his film characters likewise do this, and the Indians in his movies are often in the middle of one, or about to embark on i, although his films are usually quick to indicate out what the whites have done to provoke this behavior.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Was ane himself. He suffered from severe nightmares, indisposition, and occasional flashback episodes where he seemed to non know where he was. In trying to command the insomnia, he became addicted to sleeping pills, so kicked the habit past locking himself in a motel room for a calendar week and indelible the painful withdrawal symptoms until they passed. Likewise advocated for sufferers of mail service traumatic stress disorder in The '60s.
• Shrine to the Fallen: When he died in a plane crash in Virginia, the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars decided to build a pocket-size memorial as close to the site as they could. They cleared and expanded the nearest mountain trail, and built a small stone memorial with a plaque in 1974. Over the years, hikers take congenital a small-scale wall or cairn around it, just by adding one stone per hiker to the existing pile. They occasionally leave other items likewise. The breezy addons are more impressive when you realize that near people tackle this hike considering it is a relatively easy one, and have only vaguely heard of Tater before they reach the monument.
• Tanks, merely No Tanks: His autobiographical moving-picture show, To Hell and Back, has him jumping into a burning M4 Sherman to render burn at the Germans, not an M10 Wolverine tank destroyer every bit really happened. Reportedly, he was very disappointed when an M10 could not exist sourced and they had to use an M4 instead.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: His default facial expression, nigh obvious in his early films before he became more comfortable with beingness in front of the camera. Sir Michael Redgrave, who costarred with him in The Quiet American, found his distant, unblinking stare so unnerving that he asked the manager: "Couldn't you tell him to blink every now and once again?" The managing director refused to cooperate; peradventure because he liked the manner Irish potato's intense stare emphasized the character's misguided idealism.
• Took a Level in Badass: He was picked on as a kid due to his poverty, pocket-sized size, and Embarrassing First Name, and got into a lot of fights as a upshot. He took a level or 2 of Badass during his Ground forces training, then continued to proceeds more levels all through his time in gainsay, culminating in the action which earned him the Medal of Honour. Then he went to Hollywood and picked up a couple more levels past taking up battle, judo and the quick draw.
• The Trope Kid: Murphy played youthful outlaws and borderland adventurers so often that he once joked that he had "kidded his way through the movies."
• Troubled, only Cute: About all Murphy's early leading roles, up to almost 1953 or so, portray his grapheme this fashion. The media sometimes portrayed him this way in his ain fourth dimension-but a brooding guy who needed a skillful woman'due south love-simply this attitude trivialized his real emotional problems.
• Tranquil Fury: His reaction to Lattie Tipton being gunned downwards by a grouping of Germans pretending to give up was to fall into a common cold rage and singlehandedly assault their position, killing six, wounding 2 and capturing the residue of them with almost mechanical efficiency.
• Unflinching Walk: He took a machine gun nest that was smoking and ready to go upward. He got out only in time, and just walked away as the nest blew up.

• War Is Hell: He knew exactly how horrifying and soul-crushing war often is. His autobiography is even titled To Hell And Back.
• Warrior Poet: The two poems in To Hell and Back, the volume, are by him simply attributed to another grapheme. He apparently wrote poems most the state of war all through his life merely often destroyed or mislaid them; not very many survive. He would go on to co-write lyrics to a dozen or so land western songs.
• What Could Have Been: Where to begin...
  • Cistron Autry, a very savvy man of affairs, wanted to put him in a western Television set series in the early fifties but Universal, who held Spud'due south contract, would not concur to it. Potato ended up having some bad experiences in Goggle box later on which prevented him from pursuing a TV career when the flick westerns dried up. His career might have been very different if Factor Autry had set him up with a successful TV show early on on.
  • In the mid-fifties, at the height of his success, Spud wanted to buy the rights to John Huston's version of The Red Bluecoat of Backbone (which Spud had starred in) and restore the big amount of footage that the studio had hacked out of it. He gave upwards when he was told that the deleted scenes no longer existed.
  • The Universal studio executives watched an earlier, more tearing version of the scene in To Hell and Dorsum where Murphy'southward friend dies and he goes berserk, then ordered a Lighter and Softer version of the scene shot. The Medal of Honour sequence in To Hell and Dorsum was toned downwardly due to the production running over upkeep, which in plow was partially due to this reshoot.
  • For the filming of The Quiet American, Joseph Mankiewicz shot and then ditched a big amount of footage relating to the love affair between White potato's grapheme and the Vietnamese girl.
  • Potato supposedly had a substantial subplot in John Huston'due south The Unforgiven, near the interactions betwixt his racist character and a Mexican/Native American cowboy played by Murphy's friend John Saxon. It was reputedly heavily cut down, at the insistence of producer and star Burt Lancaster, who was either worried that the subplot would distract from his own storyline, or that the ii supporting actors would upstage him.
  • Murphy was allegedly offered the lead role in A Fistful of Dollars, but turned information technology down because of the similarities to Yojimbo. He was also offered a role in Sayonara opposite Marlon Brando merely turned it downward on his agent's advice. At the time of his expiry, he had committed to a comedy western which would eventually be made without him as Hot Atomic number 82 And Cold Feet. He had besides been offered the Scorpio Killer role in Dirty Harry. Manager Don Siegel felt he was perfect for the function, only Potato was reportedly planning on turning it down. Most of his westerns had been targeted to pre-teen audiences and children were nevertheless watching them on Telly. He didn't want to upset his fans by playing such a horrific grapheme.
• The Western: Of his 44 movies, more than than 30 were westerns.
• What Practise Y'all Mean, It's for Kids?: Although well-nigh of his westerns were supposed to be family-oriented and kid-friendly, they tended to have a lot of violence in them.
• Globe War Ii
• Worthy Opponent: His opinion of the German soldiers he faced. The feeling seems to have been common, given the popularity of his films in Federal republic of germany. Averted with the Italian soldiers; when he was in Rome in the 1950s, the press asked him whether he felt any sick will towards the Italians for their part in WWII. He is reputed to have said: "No, having them on the other side probably shortened the war by six months."
• You lot Are in Command At present

A partial listing of Audie Irish potato'due south films:

• Bad Boy: A gritty pseudo-documentary near a juvenile delinquent. Murphy's first lead role, in only his third film. He plays the championship character. Spock Prime's mom plays a adult female he looks up to as a surrogate mother effigy. Bachelor on Amazon's streaming video service.
• The Reddish Badge of Courage: John Huston made the assuming move to cast Murphy, the icon of American heroism in the post-WWII era, as the cowardly main character, and Murphy gives one of his best performances. Somewhat overlooked due to the studio cutting it down to 70 minutes and Huston constantly denigrating the final product, merely works well enough on its ain terms. Available on DVD in the US and almost other places. By some accounts, the scene Murphy had the most difficulty with was the ane where his character (a immature Union soldier) panicked, broke and ran during the first Confederate attack; running away from anything was pretty much alien to his nature.
• Duel at Silver Creek: A boneheaded sheriff tries to reform a immature drifter (Irish potato) by deputizing him. The drifter turns out to exist mode smarter and more competent than the sheriff, and much more than honorable than people are willing to requite him credit for. Faith Domergue costars. Lee Marvin has a tiny role. Director Don Siegal constitute the story so silly he treated the moving picture as a Stealth Parody. Available on DVD in the United states of america and most other places.
• Tumbleweed: Murphy gets accused of a crime he didn't commit, breaks out of jail, and sets out to clear his proper name, with sheriff Arctic Wills, deputy Lee Van Cleef and sleazy romantic rival Russell Johnson hot on his trail. Irish potato has help in the shape of the title character-a scruffy piffling white horse who subverts The Alleged Steed trope past being superfast, supersmart, and super-sure-footed. Turns up on Goggle box occasionally.
• Drums Beyond the River: Gary Brannon (Murphy) blames the local Indians for his mother'southward death, in sharp contrast to his dad (Walter Brennan), who is a friend to the tribe. But when Old Man Brannon is injured, and evil whites are trying to start a war, it's up to Gary and the Indian leader (Jay Silverheels) to keep the peace. Available on DVD in the Us.
• Ride Clear of Diablo: White potato rides into town looking to avenge his family's expiry, not realizing that the local sheriff is behind it. The sheriff deputizes him and sends him on dangerous jobs to try and get him killed, only Potato keeps getting closer to the truth, with the aid of an outlaw (Film Noir regular Dan Duryea) whose fondness for the kid gets him stuck in a Heel–Face Revolving Door, with shades of Ruby-red Oni, Blueish Oni in his dynamic with Murphy. Probably the quintessential "Audie Murphy every bit a good guy" western. Available on DVD in the U.s.a. and about other places.
• To Hell and Back (1955): The Film of the Book. His biggest hit at the time, considered So Okay, It'south Average today, except for the performances (he handpicked the supporting cast, choosing people who reminded him of his old squadmates), and some of the combat scenes. Available on DVD in the US and most other places.
• Guns of Fort Petticoat: A cavalry officer tries and fails to prevent his superior officeholder from committing the infamous Sand Creek Massacre, then goes rogue to aid the women of his hometown defend themselves from Indians who are retaliating for the massacre. Probably the only fifties Hollywood western to feature a black woman who is good with guns, played more than or less directly, admitting not given much dialogue, and who manages to avert Black Dude Dies Offset. Available as a French Region 2 DVD with English language soundtrack.
• Ride a Kleptomaniacal Trail: Potato plays a fiddling criminal who is mistaken for a marshal and drafted past a crazy judge (Walter Matthau) to keep order in town. Available on DVD in the U.s. and nigh other places.
• The Quiet American: Much criticized for deviating from Graham Greene's vision; since it was shot in Diem-era Vietnam, with regime permission, the motion picture has a pro-Diem and anti-communist angle totally strange to the book. Its well-nigh interesting trait is its take on the Englishman and the American as not so unlike beneath their superficially opposed beliefs: both are fairly charming and likable men, but blinded past their Beginning Globe smugness and confidence that they know everything worth knowing about Vietnam and the adult female they both love. Available on DVD in the US and most other places.
• Night Passage: Jimmy Stewart tries to cease a gang of outlaws and discovers that his kid brother (Irish potato) is the gang's Dragon with an Agenda. Duryea and Spud exercise their Red Oni, Bluish Oni matter over again. Bachelor on DVD in the US and most other places.
• No Name on the Bullet: John Gant (White potato) is a gun for hire who always provokes his targets into shooting commencement, and never gives away who he's gunning for. The town goes nuts and tears itself apart trying to figure out who hired him and who he'south coming for, while he sits back and watches with a Cat Smiling. Written by Gene Fifty. Coon and directed by Jack Arnold, oftentimes considered the best of Murphy's westerns. Available on DVD in the Us and most other places.
• The Unforgiven (no, not Clint Eastwood'south Unforgiven): The saga of a family of Texans who must come to terms with the fact that the adopted girl of the family unit (Audrey Hepburn) is a Kiowa by birth, and her tribe wants her back. Irish potato plays the narrow-minded younger brother who has trouble accepting his sister's heritage just does learn his lesson. Not a sympathetic character, simply considered i of his improve performances. Available on DVD in the United states of america and most other places.
• Seven Ways from Sundown: Murphy plays a New Meat Texas Ranger, named Seven Means From Sundown Jones, sent to bring in a seedy only dapper outlaw who'south rather likable but ultimately proves to be more than trouble than he'due south worth. A pretty expert film, overshadowed past Murphy's throwdown with the director (run into the entry under Death Glare) and his Romance on the Gear up with onscreen dear interest Venetia Stevenson. Bachelor every bit a French Region two DVD with English soundtrack.
• Posse from Hell: Murphy plays a gunslinger angered by the death of his constable friend at the hands of a band of outlaws led past Vic Morrow and including Lee Van Cleef. He agrees to take upwardly the lawman's badge as an excuse for a Roaring Binge of Revenge against the outlaws, only he is saddled with an unpleasant, by and large useless posse including a blowhard ex-military officeholder and a wisecracking tenderfoot from New York (John Saxon) who may just have enough tenacity to survive. Noted for its grim, suspenseful tone, the pic is popular overseas, with German, French, Australian and British DVDs available, but information technology has non been released to DVD in usa.
• Apache Rifles: Murphy plays a Noble Bigot with a Badge cavalry officer sent to defend an Apache reservation against encroaching white settlers. He learns to respect the Apaches, partly due to his romance with a woman who has both European American and Native American heritage. Available on DVD in the US, Great britain and France.
• Arizona Raiders: A Spaghetti Western influenced story with Murphy every bit a former Quantrell raider who infiltrates his one-time gang in the post-Civil War era for antiheroic reasons, but to terminate up helping the local Indian tribe and finding that he has more to live for than just revenge. Buster Crabbe costars. In that location is much squinting into the sun. Available on DVD in the U.s.a..
• Trunk to Cairo: Depression-budget Israeli spy motion picture, where Murphy plays an American hired by Mossad to impersonate a German scientist working for the Egyptian authorities. And no, he doesn't bother with the accent. Mostly notable for Murphy doing all his own stunts, and for playing with the Tuxedo and Martini trope. Turns up on Television receiver occasionally.
• Forty Guns to Apache Pass: Another cavalry picture, very depression budget. Kind of a Cold State of war apologue about treacherous soldiers selling advanced weaponry (repeating rifles in this instance) to the enemy (Cochise's Apaches equally the Soviet analogues). Murphy'due south final atomic number 82 role, it is probably besides the pic he and Kenneth Tobey were making when the latter discovered the Noodle Implements in Murphy's car. Available on ITunes and on an Amazon-exclusive DVD in the The states.
• A Time for Dying: Murphy'south final movie, which he produced himself. He had simply a small role, as an older Jesse James. His teenaged son Terry played a young thief executed by a disreputable guess. Available as a British Pal Region 0 DVD.

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