Actors who served

[HOZ]

Who are they?

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by HOZ

Who are they?

Jimmy Stewart, a Hollywood icon, was a genuine hero in WWII, something he rarely talked about, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross as a bomber pilot:

http://www.danielsww2.com/JimmyStewart.html

Audey Murphy, one of my all-time favourite cowboy stars, earned the Congressional Medal of Honor and was the most decorated USA soldier of WWII. His experiences left him a much troubled man afte the conflict.

http://deelores.homestead.com/audiemurphy.html

A great list of actors who served their country, including Ernest Borgnine, 12 years in the USA navy before WWII, Tony Curtis in WWII, Henry Fonday, USA Navy and a Bronze Star for bravery, Clark Gable actually flew bomber combat missions in WWII and Richard Burton, Royal Navy.

http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/...s_in_wwii.html

Cowperson

[FlamesAddiction]

Ronald Reagan was in the reserves during WWII... does that count?

[HOZ]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Ronald Reagan was in the reserves during WWII... does that count?

Try and actually click and look at 5, 6, and 7......

[SportsJunky]

Man, I wouldn't have guessed the first one in a million years.

[SeeBass]

and Mr tough guy himself John Wayne used the "I'm an actor" excuse to get out of it

[NBC]

I think Audie Murphy was a soldier who ended up acting.

His Medal of Honor citation was impressive.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by NBC

I think Audie Murphy was a soldier who ended up acting.

His Medal of Honor citation was impressive.

Yeah, Audie doesnt really count, he was a Soldier who ended up having to stop being a solider because walking around Europe with balls the size of Watermelons killing everything he saw was becoming far too time consuming.

So they made a movie about his exploits, found no one could could adequately portray him and he figured, what the hell, he could probably do that too. Hell, he could probably play himself in a movie killing people while actually killing people if he wanted to.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Locke

Yeah, Audie doesnt really count, he was a Soldier who ended up having to stop being a solider because walking around Europe with balls the size of Watermelons killing everything he saw was becoming far too time consuming.

So they made a movie about his exploits, found no one could could adequately portray him and he figured, what the hell, he could probably do that too. Hell, he could probably play himself in a movie killing people while actually killing people if he wanted to.

Audie Murphy is an interesting story because first and foremost he didn't look like a soldier, he was a very small and frail man. Because of that he was rejected by the marines and the navy.

Once in the army he almost failed basic training because he didn't seem to have the constitution for it, and the army wanted to send him to cooking school.

But he was what you would call a motivated soldier and overcame, won more medals then anyone else including the CMH. He also left a swath of destruction in WWII.

He became hooked on pain killers after the war, and instead of crying about it, or checking into rehab, he booked himself into a hotel and instructed the manager not to let him leave the room, and he dried himself out.


He got into the movies because Hollywood wanted to make a story about him, and he didn't think there was an actor who could play him.

He's an amazing story of guts, balls and persistance.

In the Army, every soldier hears about him, just like I learned about Tommy Prince up here.

[Yamer]

James Doohan aka "Scotty"

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

Military Service

At the beginning of the Second World War, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 13th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Doohan went to the United Kingdom in 1940 for training. His first combat was the invasion of Normandy at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night. Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren gun by a nervous Canadian sentry:[3] four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case. His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal during his career as an actor.[4]

Doohan trained as a pilot (graduating from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with 11 other Canadian artillery officers)[5], and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 (AOP) Squadron, RCAF, as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of #1 Canadian AGRA (Army Groups Royal Artillery). All three Canadian (AOP) RCAF Squadrons were manned by Artillery Officer-pilots and accompanied by enlisted RCA and RCAF personnel serving as observers.[6][7]

Though he was never actually a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, he was once labelled the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Forces." A story from his flying years tells of Doohan slaloming a plane — variously cited as a Hurricane or a jet trainer — between mountainside telegraph poles to prove it could be done, which earned him a serious reprimand. (The actual feat was also performed in a Mark IV Auster on the Salisbury Plain north of RAF Andover, in the late spring of 1945).[8]

[NBC]

How come no mention of Elvis yet?

I have a lot of time for Jimmy Stewart.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by NBC

How come no mention of Elvis yet?

I have a lot of time for Jimmy Stewart.

Probably because many people see Elvis as a singer, and forget that he was also an actor.

[bc-chris]

does playing 'dress-up' and 'appearing' on family guy count??

[NBC]

^ His daddy served. Won the DFC.

It must have been a windy day when that apple fell from the tree.

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by bc-chris

does playing 'dress-up' and 'appearing' on family guy count??

I would have thought every GW Bush II hater would have known he flew supersonic F-102 Delta Dagger fighter interceptors for the Texas Air National Guard before graduating with an MBA from Harvard. The allegation was he somehow dodged Vietnam.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...ry/q0185.shtml



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