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    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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    Dunkelgrun's Avatar Senior Member
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    quote:

    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!
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    pickard?
    star of target for tonight, matyred on the amiens prison raid.
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    Didn't know about Alec ******ss.
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    Funny. Ronny Raygun listed number two for staying in Hollywood and making movies, what a hero.
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    Reagan used his talent in a non-comabatant role. From what I can tell, he did it very well. There are a lot of folks back then who never saw combat that I still consider heroes.
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    Originally posted by shotdownski:
    Funny. Ronny Raygun listed number two for staying in Hollywood and making movies, what a hero.
    Reagan made training films. I've seen a few of them and they actually are quite good.
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    Ernst Udet, in the late 20's and early 30's he made about half dozen movies. He mostly played himself though.
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    he was rather good tho..
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