Author Topic: The All-Time Toughest Actor in Hollywood History... (Read 1525 times)

Krusher · « **Reply #30 on:** January 14, 2003, 07:22:19 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Audie Murphy

Medal of Honor
Distinguished Service Cross
Silver Star with First Oak Leaf Cluster
Legion of Merit
Bronze Star Medal with "V" Device and First Oak Leaf Cluster
Purple Heart with Second Oak Leaf Cluster
U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal
Good Conduct Medal
Distinguished Unit Emblem with First Oak Leaf Cluster
American Campaign Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with One Silver Star, Four Bronze Service Stars (representing nine campaigns) and one Bronze Arrowhead (representing assault landing at Sicily and Southern France)
World War II Victory Medal
Army of Occupation Medal with Germany Clasp
Armed Forces Reserve Medal
Combat Infantry Badge
Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar
Expert Badge with Bayonet Bar
French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre
French Legion of Honor, Grade of Chevalier
French Croix de Guerre With Silver Star
French Croix de Guerre with Palm
Medal of Liberated France
Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm

Eagler · « **Reply #31 on:** January 14, 2003, 08:37:04 AM »

Robert Blake & OJ

both committed real life cold blooded murder

one still walks the streets, will the other one too??

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #32 on:** January 14, 2003, 09:02:16 AM »

Eagler,

Stop trying to hijack my thread!

Shuckins

lazs2 · « **Reply #33 on:** January 14, 2003, 09:04:51 AM »

audie Murphy. No doubt. He couldn't even live with himself. People say that when he got mad the look he gave would make your blood go cold.

Robert conrad is second... Takes a real man to shoot down all those zeroes in a -4 Corsair.

lazs

classy man · « **Reply #34 on:** January 14, 2003, 10:23:07 AM »

Gary Colemna + Rue paul git my nodd.

wulfie · « **Reply #35 on:** January 14, 2003, 10:26:40 AM »

Murphy is in my book, but 'toughest' is impossible to really rank. I mean, does this mean it's ok to piss of James Coburn? I don't think so.

I'll tell you one thing - I learned about Audie Murphy from my Dad and his Friends as a kid. I always pause in shock for a moment or two when I'm talking to some sub-30 year old in the U.S. military who doesn't know who he was.

For those of you not from the U.S.A., he's the classic American 'storybook hero', but in his case it's all real - a little guy from Texas, who wanted to fight the enemy face to face. He was 'too small' though - the USMC and USN both turned him down because of size (they were following standard guidelines) and in the USA (U.S. Army) they at first put him in a supply unit. His first CO also though him too small for combat duty, but finally relented after repeated nagging by Murphy (must be distantly related to lazs2 ehehheheh - inside joke there) he finally got posted as a replacement to a USA infantry unit (USA infantry was taking alot of losses at the time).

And he went on to become the most decorated guy in WW2...who insisted that there were guys just as brave as him that didn't survive to get the medals he did. A real class act.

Here's a short bio (imdb.com):

http://us.imdb.com/Bio?Murphy,%20Audie

'At Arlington Cemetery, the tombstones of Medal of Honor winners are normally decorated in gold leaf, but Murphy requested that his tombstone remain plain and inconspicous.'

"I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did--guys who were killed."

I highly recommend reading and seeing 'To Hell and Back' if you haven't already.

Mike/wulfie

Mighty1 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 14, 2003, 10:36:21 AM »

To Hell and Back is one of my all time favorite WWII movies!

I wish I could get it and Battle of the Bulge on DVD.

vorticon · « **Reply #37 on:** January 14, 2003, 10:40:10 AM »

there all wimps...why do you think they have stunt doubles...

X2Lee · « **Reply #38 on:** January 14, 2003, 10:42:04 AM »

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Originally posted by Charon

Then it's a toss up between Charlton Heston and Alec Baldwin.

Charon

LOL alec baldwin wouldnt make a pimple on a tuff guys butt.
Besides being a sissyboy I think hes gay...

ra · « **Reply #39 on:** January 14, 2003, 10:54:07 AM »

<<Besides being a sissyboy I think hes gay...>>>
Yeah, I once saw him make a pass at this boy scout with a canteen.

JB73 · « **Reply #40 on:** January 14, 2003, 10:56:38 AM »

Bruce Lee
Jet Li

Keanu Reeves

Rover · « **Reply #41 on:** January 14, 2003, 10:57:54 AM »

Meg Rian

Sikboy · « **Reply #42 on:** January 14, 2003, 11:03:23 AM »

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Originally posted by vorticon
there all wimps...why do you think they have stunt doubles...

lol, I take it you havn't read the posts about Audie Murphy then?

-Sik

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #43 on:** January 14, 2003, 11:06:36 AM »

I'm surprise no one has mentioned Burt Lancaster. He did most of his own stunts I believe.

Shuckins

vorticon · « **Reply #44 on:** January 14, 2003, 11:10:16 AM »

i still think there all whimps