Lee Marvin cropped up in another thread. He was with the USMC in WWII, recieving a Purple Heart.
This led to a brief discussion with my old chum Panther, who mentioned James Stewart being a bomber pilot. It set my mind to thinking - how many other movie heroes did it for real? All nations.
Let's be having them.
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Good idea for a thread - war movie actors who did it for real, or has it been done?
Yeah, I think it's been done, but
Jimmy Stewart
Audie Murphy
Richard Todd
James Doohan
Spike Milligan
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Michael Bentine
Eddie Albert
James Arness
Ernest Borgnine
Mel Brooks
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Henry Fonda
Glenn Ford
Clark Gable
Audrey Hepburn
Patrick MacNee
David Niven
Jack Palance
Tyrone Power
Anthony Quayle
Jason Robards Jr
Jack Warden
Humphrey Bogart (WW1 !!!)
Pinched a lot of these from this site: http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/...s_in_wwii.html
Cheers!