Movie Career
Audie Murphy starred in 44 films throughout his career. During the 1950s and 1960s, he was cast primarily in Westerns. In 1958, he veered from Westerns to co-star with Michael Redgrave in The Quiet American, a film that explored the political arena of the first Indochina War, in the early 1950s. Although mostly active in the movies, Murphy also performed in a handful of television productions.
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