19 American Golden Age Actors Who Served During World War 2

[@GoldenEra1-i6q]

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[@jonathanbair523]

One thing to note... The US Air Force was not a thing in WWII, it was US Army Air Corp.. Think in Korea the air wing broke from the Army and became the Air Force as it's own military branch...

[@AnthropoidOne]

@@jonathanbair523USAF began 1947 I believe. A few years before Korea

[@flagmanc]

It was the United States Army Air Forces from 20 June 1944 until 18 September 1947 when it became the United States Air Force.

[@vegasallen1212]

AI narrator.......IE: Carol Lum bard?

[@tossit7471]

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[@robshirewood5060]

Audie Murphy, Neville Brand, Dale Robertson, Claude Akins, Lee van Cleef, Jack Lord

[@KevinOlson-io3dm]

Murphy's service occurred before he was an actor.

[@jimstryker646]

@@KevinOlson-io3dm so did a lot of others in the video. The video specifically cites many that used their GI bill to go to acting school.

[@castlerock58]

@@KevinOlson-io3dm 'Murphy is a special case where he got to be an actor because he was the most decorated war hero. Jimmy Stewart is unusual in that he was an A-list actor who did more than a full tour as a bomber pilot. The most dangerous part of the military. Clark Gable was also an A-lister who went into combat. I think he was a gunner on a bomber. Ronald Reagan did PR for the military and training films. Many of the others where just young men who enlisted and them became actors after the war. The title is misleading because it seems to be offering a list of established actors like Stewart and Gable who left Hollywood to serve in WW II. David Niven is a British actor who left Hollywood to serve his country.

[@ronlackey2689]

@@castlerock58 I didn't find it misleading. I think the post you responded to and the title was spot on. Some were famous when they enlisted, some weren't and later became famous.

[@johnreder4118]

@@KevinOlson-io3dm It was Jimmy Cagney who "discovered" Audie Murphy. Cagney was in the shower at the Hollywood athletic club when he saw a man who had no hip and he asked someone who it was. He was told it was the war hero Audie Murphy. Cagney was surprised as he had no idea Murphy had been so injured. Cagney went over and introduced himself, they became friends and he began showing Murphy around Hollywood and the rest, as they say, is history.

[@grahamcooper6224]

Get Smart's Agent 86 - Don Adams joined the U.S. Marines in the early days of World War II. He saw combat in the invasion of Guadalcanal and was the only survivor of his platoon. He contracted blackwater fever and nearly died, remaining hospitalized for more than a year.

[@d.lindsey5583]

Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson 's announcer served in the US Marine Corp. Beginning in 1944, he was commissioned an earned his pilot's wings, flying as a test pilot and flight instructor In F4U Corsair aircraft. At W W 2's end, he stayed in the reserve and was called up for Korea, where he flew 85 combat missions in an observation air craft over North Korea, earning 6 Air Medals. He retired as a Colonel in 66.

[@bdflatlander]

Ed McMahon honorably served his country during WWII and America owes him a debt of gratitude.

[@Dragon_Werks]

So did William Conrad, star of "Cannon".

[@AnthropoidOne]

@@d.lindsey5583 and his medals are now sitting in a mayonnaise jar on Funk $ Wagnall’s front porch?

[@ElliottWelsh-sw2gt]

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[@ralphmills7322]

A couple of missed actors; Walter Matthau and Russel Johnson (Professor from Gillian's Island) both were bomber crewmen.

[@juanitasalicrup6653]

You forgot Charles Durniing and Audie Murphy. Yes, bring us a Part Two. (Loved Part One!)

[@oldcop18]

Much respect for these actors that put their Hollywood careers on hold & served in combat.

[@jonathanbair523]

Wish the folks in Hollywood now had a sliver of what the stars had in the 40's...

[@jimstryker646]

@@jonathanbair523 I wish our society writ large had a sliver of what the WW2 generation had

[@ronlackey2689]

How about Henry Fonda enlisting at 37 and becoming a regular swabbie (QM 3rd class)? He just wanted to serve and didn't care how or where he was assigned. That's a patriot.

[@jimstryker646]

@@ronlackey2689exactly!

[@schwabrichard9829]

Charles Durning never seems to make any of these lists. He served in the Army during WW2 , in Europe. He was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, three Purple Hearts and the Combat Infantry Badge.

[@eileencoffey6657]

And survived the Malmadey massacre.

[@robertpourier9948]

He also waded ashore on D Day at Omaha Beach.!

[@johnreder4118]

Eerily, Durning went ashore in the first wave on Omaha Beach. Years later he went to dinner at Burt Reynold's house where he met Burt's father. It turned out that they realized the two of them had been less than 50 feet apart on Omaha pinned down by the same machine gun

[@gregmead2967]

In the 1st or 2nd season of NCIS, he also played an Iwo Jima, Medal of Honor veteran in what is (IMO) one of the most moving of all the NCIS episodes. A bit ironic as he served in Europe rather than the Pacific. A great actor, a great role, and a great man.

[@BillHinerman]

I also had some deep penetration action in my military career. ... maybe not "exactly" behind enemy lines, but overseas and during war time.

[@frankmoreau8847]

Donald Pleasence was a radio operator in a Lancaster in WW2. His plane was shot down in 1944, he was captured and spent the remainder of the war as a POW. When filming The Great Escape, he commented that the camp built for the movie was so accurate that it ignited his PTSD symptoms.

[@michaelboyce7079]

The most remarkable thing about David Niven was that he returned to Britain to enlist in the RAF's Fighter Command, but at the age of 27, was rejected as being "too old!" Probably a good outcome for him, because by the end of the Battle of Britain, most those young men involved at the beginning were already dead!

[@edb6690]

Ernest Borgnine is a big miss. He served in the Navy. The biggest miss was Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier of the war.

[@jhonyermo]

Murphy NOT an actor before the war. Don't be silly

[@jvee2901]

Audie Murphy became a star after his heroic actions in WWII.

[@gregmead2967]

@@jvee2901 In fact, he became a star BECAUSE of his heroic WWII actions. And that's different from all the other actors mentioned in this video.

[@johnreder4118]

Tom Poston was an army pilot who flew transports on D-Day dropping paratroops over Normandy. Richard Todd, who played a British airborne commander in the "Longest Day" was one of the actual paratroopers on D-Day and in one clip his character is seen giving orders to the character portraying himself. Charles Durning went ashore in the first wave on Omaha Beach. Glenn Ford was a naval officer in WW2, Korea and Viet Nam. Michael Caine was a British Infantry scout in Korea and Jackie Coogan was an airborne glider pilot in the Pacific during WW2 .

[@jameswilliams3241]

Don Adams at Guadalcanal, Eddie Albert Tarawa and the Pacific theater, Tyrone Powers a Marine fighter pilot in the Pacific, Charles Durning DDay to the Bulge, Richard Todd,Denholm Elliott, Dirk Bogard, Roscoe Lee Brown, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, before Hollywood Niven served as an officer of the Argyle and Sutherlands,Donald Pleasance.

[@josephstanick8395]

You missed Rod Serling who served with the 11th Airborne Division in the Philippines during World War II.

[@SBCBears]

Yes and he made a combat jump onto Corregidor. He describes the fighting he observed and participated in. There is a vid on YT.

[@sheilah4525]

Yogi Berra, Ted Williams, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., MOST OF ALL!

[@eugeniaalverno3960]

Tyrone Power. In August 1942 Power enlisted as a private in the United States Marine Corps. Being already an expert pilot he was able to do a short intense flight training in 1943. In 1944 Power was assigned to Marine Transport Squadron (VMR)- 352 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point North Carolina. Later he was reassigned to VMR- 353 on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Island. From there, he flew missions carrying cargo in and wounded Marines out during the Battles of Iwo Jima (Feb- Mar 1945 ), and Okinawa ( Apr-Jun 1945 ). For his services in the Pacific War, Power was awarded The American campaign Medal, the Asian Pacific Campaign Medal with two bronze star, and the World War II Victory Medal After he was discharged he remained in the reserve reaching the rank of major. When he died suddenly at age 44 he was buried with full military honors.

[@alangriggs4420]

Sterling Hayden served in the OSS rescuing downed airmen in Yugoslavia using a sailboat. He earned the Silver Star.

[@buddyvilla7393]

Lee Marvin fought in 21 Battles/ Amphibious Landings before being wounded at Saipan. The bullet went through his gluteus and severed his sciatic nerve and Lee spent 13 months in hospital. After flying 25 missions a pilot and crew could go home. Yet Jimmy Stewart stayed in England and flew over 50 Missions. Henry Fonda as noted was 37 when he joined the Navy,he did his basic training at NTC- Naval Training Center- San Diego with men half his age18-19. Like Denholm Elliott ,Donald Pleasance joined the RAF. Shit down he managed to parachute out of his burning plane was captured and spent 2+ years in a German POW Camp.

[@richardpearcy6149]

Somebody should have mentioned Lee Marvin's Navy Cross from Saipan.

[@paulwestwood4417]

Audie Murphy, the most decorated of them all. He even played himself in a war film about his own war time story.

[@kennethtarlow]

Charles Durning. A survivor of the Malmondy massacre, at the Battle of the Bulge. he appeared in over 200 Films

[@rodgerpotter9587]

Charles Durning was in THE BEST episode of NCIS.

[@SBCBears]

Malmedy

[@pdm2201]

During the filming of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence” director John Ford would needle Wayne for not serving as costars Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin did. Ford himself saw much action.

[@maj.d.sasterhikes9884]

Ford also refused to make Wayne a part of his film crew during the war, which John Wayne requested of him. So what you're saying is hogwash, considering how many other stars were bullied by Ford as they aged.

[@stairgauge]

The President of the United States Wanted John Wayne to make war films etc. I suppose you would have told the president no.

[@pdm2201]

@@stairgauge. Wayne made movies in the early 1940’s. “Dark Command” in 1940 and “Reap the Wild Wind” and “Flying Tigers”1942 just before the U.S. entered the war. He also was in “The Fighting Seabees”. (1944) and “They Were Expendable” (1945). Although Wayne did not fight in WW2 he sure made some money while the country was at war.

[@jhonyermo]

@@stairgauge HOGWASH MALARKY

[@Snoopydad]

@@stairgauge Wayne was more protective of his career and the money he was making than his country, Ford always thought he was a slacker.

[@mopardoctor9966]

Tony Randall (Odd Couple) served in Signals Intelligence Service breaking secret codes during WWII.

[@williamwindomtributesite1640]

Actor William Windom was with the 82nd Airborne. He jumped on D Day and jumped in Operation Market Garden. He also fought in The Bulge. A He and his unit were walking into a forest known as The Meat Grinder. The soldier 9 feet in front of him stepped on a US set landmine and was blown up several times.

[@garysandburg8199]

I can not believe you miss ed Audie Murphy and James Arness.

[@williehayes1729]

I can’t believe it either.

[@jhonyermo]

Murphy was NOT an actor before the war. Don't be goofy. This video is about Actors that went to war. NOT Soldiers that became actors. READ

[@Snoopydad]

@@jhonyermo Many of those cited were not professional actors before the war.

[@alejandrayalanbowman367]

I nearly died in WW2 at the age of 3 when one of Hitlers V2 rockets came down just yards away.

[@gibson617ajg]

Are you a Terminator? 🙄 Yards away? A ton of explosive travelling at 1700 mph? 🤔

[@paulwestwood4417]

The same thing almost happened to my grandfather. The V2 exploded above him. He jumped into a doorway, just in time before the street was showed with hot metal. He used a piece of brass from the V2 to make a model spitfire. I still have the spitfire to this day.

[@gregmead2967]

@@gibson617ajg To be fair, they didn't say how many yards. Could have been hundreds. 😃

[@brianelisabethmentha-benne8322]

How could you forget Robert Stack who fought and taught gunnery 4years. ❤

[@anthonymariner8026]

Dont forget Robert Bray who starred in a number of films and the tv series Stagecoach West. He served in WW2 capturing the Japanese held islands. He finished his career as marine sergeant.

[@Mike-is4qv]

Larry Storch served with Tony Curtis and was a school mate of Don Adams. Art Carney was badly wounded at Cannes by a mortar hit.

[@RareMomentsInHistory]

Bring back the good old days! Thanks for sharing :)

[@tommyg4087]

Glenn Ford started up at the beginning of the war in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, wound up somehow in th eMarine Corps serving with the French underground. After the war he joined the Navy reserve, serving two tours in Vietnam. He retired as a Captain.

[@alanreeser2187]

William Conrad (Cannon, Jake and the FATMAN) served as a fighter pilot in World War II

[@crystalr7602]

Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazard) was fluent in I think 6 languages and was an intelligence officer in WWII and was EXTREMELY intelligent. That character was nothing like him - imagine that, eh? He pulled it off well though.

[@Dragon_Werks]

He flew F4U Corsairs.

[@Dragon_Werks]

​@@crystalr7602so did James West, the actor who played Sheriff Roscoe Coltrain.

[@gibson617ajg]

@@Dragon_Werks One of my favourite Movie characters 😀

[@DonaldLewis-hz3kf]

That was easy money compared to some of the amazing things he did in WW2​@@crystalr7602

[@piper0428]

Thank you for sharing! Inspiring to see and hear our true unforgotten heroes!

[@Dr.Pepper001]

Don Adams was a Marine wounded on Guadalcanal.

[@Embur12]

Jimmy Stewart had trouble landing roles after coming home, 1947s It's a Wonderful Life was very therapeutic as he was still dealing with PTSD of losing many of his fellow flyers. That movie was a box office flop but found new life in reruns on the new medium of television.

[@VERYOLDTROG]

Richard Todd (Dam Busters etc.) was in parachute brigade that helped capture and secure Pegasus Bridge-One of D Day's first objectives. In the Longest Day he played the role of Major Howard who led the operation.

[@clinging54321]

No he was in the light infantry - he arrived in the second wave at Pegasus Bridge - in a glider.

[@jerrykr7kz]

YES!!! Bring on part 2.

[@scaredy-cat]

My deepest respect for these American patriots

[@SNP-1999]

Why was this titled "American Actors" when so many were British ? Nonetheless, it is heart warming to find out that so many of the world's most popular actors served their countries during WW2, some like James Stewart and Clarke Gable who were even world famous and could have used that fame to avoid active service, but didn't. These men were truly heroes, but not only on the wide screen, they were heroes in real life.

[@AnthropoidOne]

Dirk Bogarde and Richard Todd are two I thought of..🇺🇸

[@Alan-gh8X]

This is once again yanky gunge ho stuff, how they won the war their 1917 / 1918 war, and 1942 /1945,.

[@DonaldLewis-hz3kf]

Remarkable character😊

[@clinging54321]

Said Hollywood Stars - so stars working in Hollywood such as David Niven

[@SNP-1999]

@clinging54321 No, the title said "19 American Golden Age actors...etc.", no one word about Hollywood....or British actors. Just read the title properly.

[@Oops-IMeantToDoThat]

I read Richard Burton swore he woukd never do a war movie (i gib because he didn't want to glamorous war). However, he decided to do Where Eagles Dare because he thought society was forgetting the evil WWII was fought over and thought his name would remind people.

[@maxwedge5683]

Burton did numerous "war" movies including "The Longest Day", An accurate account of the D-Day invasion of Europe. He also served three years in the RAF but washed out of pilot training due to his poor eyesight. He completed training as a navigator.

[@richarddenny5340]

Norman Fell and George Gobel , both served with honor in WW2

[@maxwedge5683]

It's deceptive to mix actual photographs of military service with clips from Hollywood movies. And it's insulting to add in photographs of unknown people just because they're in uniform.

[@jimstryker646]

Agreed. Most definitely shouldn’t have had pics of John Wayne in the mix, since Wayne never served.

[@clivemacken552]

⁠@@jimstryker646not without trying multiple times being refused because the studios did not want him to go plus he had independents 4children. Other than that I agree should not have pics of others

[@jimstryker646]

@@clivemacken552that’s one version of the story

[@clivemacken552]

@ read Scott Eyman The Life the Legend it takes exactly from information and written records that are available

[@jimstryker646]

@@clivemacken552 so the studios some how blocked Wayne from serving yet Stewart served? That’s hogwash. And re your book, you don’t think it’s possible for a man as powerful as Wayne to get a friendly book written about him? Kids? Again, you don’t think the rest of the prominent actors that served had kids?

[@CherylMcdonnell-nj2kg]

Part 2 would be 👍 you missed Audie Murphy

[@patrickkelley6212]

Yes! I would like to see a part 2! Soon please!😀

[@clyderokke5409]

You asked for actors who served in WW 2. Audie Murphy has to be the most decorated troop although he was not an actor at the time. Victor Mature who was a pilot who flew transport missions in the Pacific, especially into Iwo Jima. Donald Pleasance as well who was in the RAF and was shot down and spent the rest of the war as a POW. I know there has to be many more. Very brave men!

[@futuregenerationz]

Stewart had a piece of shrapnel from an 88mm shell pass through his B-24 between the pilot and him big enough to see the ground.

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

Niven was already an officer waiting his Commission: he graduated from SANDHURST. Sheeesh.

[@anthonyeaton5153]

Donal Pleasance was a Conchy at the start of WW2 but when he witnessed his fellow Conchies sneering at the people of London while they were being bombed, he joined the RAF joining 166 Squadron flying 60 operational sorties as a WoP/AG before being shot down and becoming a PoW.

[@kennethtarlow]

How do you miss Audie Murphy, he may have been Hollywood's worst actor, but he was our greatest hero.

[@DonaldLewis-hz3kf]

I loved his movies

[@BenTLH]

Yes! Definitely would love to see a part-2 but how's about doing actors who served in specific wars; Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War and those who're still in the active Reserves.

[@Americal1970]

You could do a whole video about DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR. He has a history you wouldn't believe. Except BELIEVE IT. He started before WW2, He lived in England so he had close friends in high places. He was in the US Navy by the end of the war he was awarded, US, ENGLAND, FRANCE metals. Highly decorated. He earned it

[@bobkohl6779]

Paul Newman, turret gunner on a ln Avenger torpedo plane in the Pacific and I talked to Garrner in 1969 about Mini Cooper Ss, we both loved them. Bunker Hill was devestated by two bomb hits, fires and ordnance explosions from loaded and ready planes

[@MIKELOVELESS-id6mb]

YES, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE PART 2.

[@williehayes1729]

And a part 3. You missed enough of the Actors of WWII [and WWI] to include for 2&3.

[@karenwhite4742]

I think that your first photo of Tony Bennett is actually George Gershwin, amazing composer (ex. Rhapsody in Blue). Both Bennett and Gershwin were top-notch.

[@vitodesimone8120]

Yes I would love to see a part 2

[@jayoneill1533]

I wonder if the editor actually listened to the sound track? Lots of odd video choices.

[@jeffgreen7499]

Missing Wayne Morris. He flew Navy F6F Hellcats and is credited as an Ace having shot down 7 Japanese planes.

[@owatagi]

These AI generated videos can be weird. Too many photo errors.

[@kennethbolton951]

This is true, the video kept posting actors, like Elvis Presley, and about 5 others while narrating having served ones. There is no such thing as an AI editor.

[@daveallen8824]

Many of the captions are SO badly done - apparently done from voice to type; people with name spelled wrong several different ways, misspelling, etc. , etc. Really badly done.

[@KapiteinKrentebol]

Wow, never knew about James Doohan's ww2 service.

[@rackyjaeckel1644]

yes a part 2 please

[@kman-mi7su]

Bob Keeshan aka "Captain Kangaroo" was a WW2 vet

[@robertpourier9948]

Read a different article about Marines going up "Mount Suribachi" at the Flag Waving incident. Think it might have been Lee Marvin (?) Said as he was going up, Keeshan , (later as Cpt Kangaroo) (they were buddies,) was being carried down on a stretcher by medics.

[@anth-ny]

Ronald Reagan, Bob Keeshan, Jack Lemmon, Henry Fonda, Sidney Poitier, Art Carney, Robert Stack, Glenn Ford, Don Rickles, Telly Savalas, Bob Barker, ...

[@marco-58]

More detail on Denholm Elliot. His plane was shot up and forced to ditch in the North Sea, at night! Only a couple of crew members survived. They were rescued by a Danish fishing boat and handed over to Germans. What a terrible experience.

[@briancooper2112]

Gardner was wounded in Korea. He was in merchant marine in ww2.

[@roberthull93534]

You put a picture of his son, Edward Albert, not Eddie Albert. This is another with the same name and was in the movie “Midway”.

[@rebeccahernandez3460]

You missed Audie Murphy. The most decorated soldier of WW2! He later became a Hollywood actor.

[@higgme1ster]

In 1975, two or three days after I arrived at US Air Force Basic Training our Training Flight was marched into a large room with a couple of other Training Flights. A flight is like a Platoon in the Army. Most of us Airmen were very surprised to see Air Force Reserve General Jimmy Stewart on the movie screen providing a very down to earth orientation of what we should expect during Air Force Basic Training. Speaking for myself it was a rather uplifting experience. I had about the same feelings at one Sunday Chapel presentation, in person, from then Major General John P. Flynn who was the Air Force Military Training Center commander, speaking about his years as a Prisoner of War in Hanoi, North Viet Nam.

[@thomasgarwell8214]

Richard Todd. He was in the paras (Red Berets), and parachuted behind enemy lines and captured Pegasus Bridge (so called as the regiment's badge is Pegasus the horse, and also, the cap badge which is an open parachute) during the D Day Landings. Jimmy Edwards, a comedy actor, who was in the RAF and flew Dakotas during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. He dropped the paras and others, then afterwards he flew in supplies during the battle, and was shot down, where he was burnt in the face, hence his handlebar moustache to hide the injury. He was a member of The Guinea Pig Club, which was where serving soldiers/airmen/sailors who had suffered burns were sent for treatment using a new type of operation, plastic surgery, and these members were the first of their type to undergo the operations involved

[@AnthropoidOne]

Dirk Bogarde saw some pretty horrible action I believe 🇺🇸

[@theavandenberg6876]

I always find it slightly ironic that a selfconfessed patriot like John Wayne did not serve in any capacity in WW2. These are the better men and the real patriots.

[@virginia7191]

They would not take him because he had 3 small children.

[@Boyer68]

He was soul supporter of 3 small children. He lost a college football scholarship to USC due to a surfing injury, not to mention doing his own stunts in movies before the war. There were several reasons he didn't serve. Lack of trying was not one of them.

[@melindaboone774]

Henry Fonda was a father when he enlisted.

[@Boyer68]

@@melindaboone774 He also had a wife at home.

[@jimglassford9967]

@@virginia7191 There was a detailed KZbin video on John Deere. He chose not to enlist and concentrate on his acting career.

[@badatheist9948]

a little correction James Doohan joined the Canadian army in 1939

[@flagmanc]

Art Carney, US Army, landed on Normandy July 44, badly wounded in August.

[@MrDaiseymay]

I WAS BORN DURING A DAYLIGHT UK AIR RAID, IN 1941, BUT, ALTHOUGH PLANES ROARD OVER THE HOSPITAL, BOMBS FELL ABOUT HALF A MILE AWAY , ACCORDING TO MY MOTHER. I STILL HAVE THE CIRCULAR IDENTITY DISC ,THAT WAS ATTACHED TO A BIG TOE, IT HAS MY FAMILY NAME , BIRTH DATE AND WEIGHT ON IT. IT'S MADE OF THICK PAPER, INSIDE A CIRCULAR METAL RIM. HAS ANYONE ELSE GOT ONE OF THESE FROM WW2 ?

[@jasonrusso9808]

James Garner was Not in WWII, he was in the 5th Regimental Combat Team (RCT) in The Korean War; 1950-1953. A Division at this time was composed of three Regiments per Div. So obviously an RCT which Regiments began being designated as in WWII carried over till the mid to late fifties, and composed of an artillery battalion, Tank Company, engineer combat company, aviation section etc. To make it more self sufficient but was at times attached to Divisions like the 24th ID. Hills of Sacrifice is a good book about the 5RCT in Korea.

[@murrayaronson3753]

Dirk Bogarde, Tyrone Power, Cesar Romero, Jean Gabin

[@roberthutchison8197]

I can think of at least two, Audie Murphy and Richard Todd...

[@donb7113]

You left off one if my favorites, Charles Durning. And though not an actor, Naval pilot Joseph Kennedy, Dr.

[@lorenwalters1334]

We just don't know how many people we saw in movies or tv that put their lives in danger for their country

[@dagnabbit6187]

Eastward ? Danielovich . Hohum I think it was Issur .

[@castlerock58]

The merchant marine is not the military. They are civilians. That led to a grave injustice than the men of the merchant marine were not honored for their service which was more dangerous than most branches of the military. It was better to be a sailor on a destroyed hunting submarines than on a cargo ship being hunted by them. The sailors who took supplies to Murmansk were some of the greatest heroes of the war. This injustice was only addressed recently when most of the men had died. I think it was just after James garner died. They were not treated as veterans even they were in more danger than most soldiers. in the army. Most soldiers never saw combat

[@jerometaperman7102]

Mel Brooks must have been relieved, as many were, to have survived the war. Imagine if he could have known that he would not only survive but survive another eighty years.

[@chrisgibson5267]

David Niven was challenged by American troops and asked a question about American baseball as clearly no German would know the answer. Being an Englishman, he was also unable to answer their question, but he informed them helpfully that although he couldn't answer their question, he had once starred in a film with Ginger Rogers.

[@ramman5784]

Charles Durning

[@robertpourier9948]

Landed on Omaha Beach at NORMANDY. Spent the rest of the war with other units. Read his bio. and was greatly impressed!

[@PhillipSmith-iy1ex]

The only way this will stop is if KZbin will label each AI-generated clip as such and all of us refuse to click.

[@JonWebb-s3b]

James Garner served in Korea, I’m not sure about WW2.

[@robshirewood5060]

Merchant Marine war service ww2, they mattered as much as the other services

[@stevehakes9785]

All but one I'm still happy to watch.

[@rvail136]

Not all heroes wear capes. I cant think of a single actor today who would volunteer for military service to. They are all narcissists and cowards today.

[@AnthropoidOne]

James Woods, if not for age, is one I would think

[@flagmanc]

Adam Driver joined the Marines after 9/11

[@jeffarchibald3837]

You forgot James Arness, wounded at Anzio.

[@jasontoddman7265]

I was going to bring him up myself. His wounds were such that he developed a lifelong limp and suffered much pain in his acting career. I have heard (can't verify it though) that one reason why Dennis Weaver had his character Chester Goode have such a pronounced limp on the TV version of the show Gunsmoke (a trait he never had in the radio show afaik) was to make James Arness's real-life limp virtually unnoticeable in comparison.

[@marlow769]

I’d like to see a part 2…or even a part 1 done over again without the wrong pictures and annoying A.I. voice.

[@MMAALL]

Who knew Scotty turned into Bill Murray? A true thespian indeed.

[@Madtech19]

Bad, bad when talking about one actor and showing another actor in picture...this is misleading and false

[@emmabird9745]

Audie Murphy, Medal of Honour! Played himself in the film.

[@Davidmckenzie-u8k]

Part two, absolutely.

[@belleriffraff]

Wayne Morris WW2 Navy pilot, and considered an Ace in the Pacific Theatre. And it's James DOOHAN, the correct spelling.

[@crystalr7602]

For sure about the closing statement - many many actors were proud patriots and answered the calls of their country. Not many though made it to heaven unfortunately. I am always inspired by them though. To face such adversity for their lives and bounce back. Jimmy Stewart shows this in the movie "Strategic Air Command" costaring June Alyson (of course) by showing the stress of a baseball star and his wife with his stint in the air force.

[@timhazeltine3256]

Made it to heaven???

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@timhazeltine3256 "To home" I presume? Though if June Allyson was waiting for you at home .... 🤔😉😊

[@AnthropoidOne]

@@timhazeltine3256 never went to Sunday school?

[@David-ju6mv]

Lee van cleef

[@Vics251]

Some of those American actors were British.

[@MsTimothyswan]

One of the photos shown during the segment about Tony Bennett is NOT him, at all; but, is in fact, Elvis Presley

[@Dragon_Werks]

A close friend of mine served aboard the USS Proteus on her decommissioning cruise. I don't think he knows about Tony Bennett being a Proteus alumnus.

[@MarlaRuss]

Dale Robertson injured twice awarded

[@vietnamcombatveteran2274]

Why do you show the odd couple episode Tony Randall and jack Kaufman not James Gardner smh

[@friedrichExplorer]

I like Jimmy Stewart. Just a marvellous guy