film career june highly decorated american soldier medal honor recipient turned actor portrayed film hell account world war experiences 1950s 1960s cast primarily hero proved ability portray cold hired gun bullet notable exception starred murphy feature films worked directors directed hell worked star films half promoting book hell appeared radio version life promote film appeared town celebrity guest television shows line appeared handful television dramas murphy television series brief run cooperation appearing united_states_army episode big picture television series awarded medal early career murphy national celebrity following world war military service life magazine proclaimed america decorated soldier july issue cover story magazine cover brought attention veteran actor invited hollywood murphy arrived california military discharge cancelled hotel reservations murphy instead took home got shock life thin bluish gray commenting years later impression said murphy nervous condition afraid jump window took home gave bed spent weeks guest returned texas finally agreeing offer brothers james week contract player production company gave murphy personal attention acting techniques took lessons actors lab sunset boulevard murphy studied voice techniques learned trained choreographer dance coach disagreement ended association brothers having cast film production moved survived army pension month acquainted writer got bit texas brooklyn heaven began dating actress agent got murphy bit film glory directed murphy married divorced film bad boy gave leading role murphy acquainted texas executive best man murphy marriage namesake couple second son murphy association cherry brought attention texas independent producer financing texas theater owners children charitable organization short cast murphy bad boy help promote charity work troubled children murphy performed screen test president project production company want cast major role little acting experience cherry short theater owners refused finance film murphy played lead thames novel woods caught murphy attention period career secured rights story 1950s hired write script film universal_studios signed murphy seven year studio contract week film kid texas wrapped year making sierra starring wife outlaw director acquainted murphy request boxing partner murphy appeared title role film murphy duel director murphy team time gun runners worked time director later producer tonight starring johnny murphy column south directed murphy based character created author previous versions titled rides screenplay murphy film adaptation kenneth novel murphy played horse displayed talent getting hero director oversaw drums river murphy film career began progress efforts improve skills continually practiced fast draw gun took private classroom acting lessons reciting dialogue william_shakespeare red badge courage murphy lent mgm salary appear directed adapted stephen crane novel urging celebrity columnist producer studio executives director cast murphy lead youth novel preview screening audiences enthusiastic causing edit work eliminating scenes adding narration mgm trimmed advertising efforts believed film eventually hit theaters commercial success film murphy believed murphy unsuccessfully tried buy rights film attempt edit release tried buy told original negative filmed destroyed hell murphy initially reluctant appear hell film version book eventually agreed portrayed brother age film directed screen introduction general daughter murphy agent acting debut film finale shows murphy awarded medal honor images unit casualties pass screen biggest hit history universal_studios time murphy universal gave considerations follow version post war life murphy rejected script way created fictional scenario filming hell murphy cured combat fatigue scripted second unused version way incorporated murphy real life friends storyline ended star living happily sons version unknown writer focused murphy friendship rejected threat lawsuit offered project titled helmets dust murphy request wrote film treatment project came fruition later films murphy team proved successful hell worked total subsequent films directed murphy ride clear partnership resulted commercially unsuccessful non traditional western walk proud land murphy teamed non world corner worked final time western ride trail veteran character actor portrayed villain ride clear played second lead murphy vehicles story charles russell murphy lead development universal shelved disappointing receipts murphy enthusiastic biopic consideration production star lead film murphy hired play role american book version replacing dropped replaced dropped withdrew cold war drama filmed vietnam departure genre murphy normally cast murphy formed partnership films guns fort partnership fell disagreement remaining projects brown filed suit murphy murphy star film night riders scheduling conflicts prevented skin diving hobby murphy hired diving expert write script heart murphy deal film sued murphy 1950s decade ended murphy starred year old film wild innocent film cast rounded respected talent era collaboration black white cast long shadow included uncredited stint producer film starred performance bullet received storyline follows cool hired gun townspeople fear presence murphy continued films 1960s murphy worked time film murphy took second billing racist kid brother bent destruction writer success number works adapted films including novel lance filmed western works retained original titles wrote murphy films hell author deemed scripts best murphy worked decade directed hell black white world war drama battle set philippines wife friends murphy earliest days hollywood worked number projects producer murphy television series additionally collaborated bullet based activities remake film texas_rangers moving setting texas arizona film featured veteran actor writer screenplay battle team wrote gunpoint script murphy starring lead western guns pass released storyline centered murphy character stolen rifles sold leader rifles formula murphy western stayed universal years left work columbia making films europe trunk cairo israel felt film worst james_bond parody seen unable commitment feel like prostitute little hill kinds promotional offers movies instead usual price picture offer percentage profit people find need money town cut offer percent turning liquor cigarette commercials don believe good kids guess matter percent prostitute company produced film time dying cameo role sons terry james given small roles played wrote script agreed production return favor earlier time murphy financial setbacks production financial problems set burned twice film opened france shown united_states limited release projects murphy planned produce horse came fruition feature films career films television television series murphy starred played title character based film 19th century denver railroad investigator episodes real life cases united_states juvenile concerned violent content leveled charges network episodes filmed aired cooperation united_states_army extended murphy media appearances film hell celebrity television shows murphy appeared promote film town hosted man suspense episode based original broadway play written murphy played mentally stranger posed student awarded medal cooperation production big picture television series episode radio announcements
Film career of Audie Murphy