Celebrities who have killed someone.
Let's shame some celebrities here.
Matthew Broderick (two people)
Charles S. Dutton
Michael Jace
Amy Locane
Rebecca Gayheart
Several actors who served in WWII had to have killed people, not that they ever publicized the fact. Off the top of my head Clark Gable served as a bombadier in a bomber fleet, so he's undoubtedly responsible for a lot of deaths, and David Niven was a real army officer who was on the beaches at D-Day. He'd been a Sandhurst graduate and had planned to be a career officer, and served in the peacetime British military for years before quitting to go to the US and become an actor. When war was declared he walked out on Hollywood and became a real army officer again, for the duration.
John Wayne didn't serve in the military, for no good reason.
I was about to say this.
Guys like Henry Fonda,Clark Gable,Charles Bronson killed people.
Audie Murphy
Christopher Lee
James Doohan
Christopher Lee! He always hinted that he had been in special ops, had been a real-life secret agent, part of special ops, like his cousin Ian Fleming (creator of James Bond), and that he couldn't say more because of the Official Secrets Act. During the making of "Lord of the Rings" he told the director exactly how someone reacts to a knife in the back, implying personal experience. Some people have been dubious about his claim to have been a secret agent or anything like, saying he exaggerated, but who knows. Lee spoke a great many languages fluently, was intelligent, and "from a good family", he's exactly the sort of young man who might have been recruited for covert ops.
Audie Murphy was invited to become an actor, precisely because he killed so many people - or because he killed a tremendous number of people while looking photogenic. What a strange world we live in.
Audie Murphy became a "celebrity" after heroic feats on the battlefield, and then he was in a bunch of movies.
Alvin York ("Seargent York") did something similar in World War I, but he turned down most offers to capitalize on it. His story won an Oscar...
I know about Murphy's astonishing service record.
I just say his career is evidence of a strange world, because it must have felt completely bizarre for him, going from the worst parts of the battlefield to a world where grown adults spent hours arguing about lighting and makeup. AND weird for all the other Medal Of Honor winners who weren't as photogenic, seeing Murphy invited to Hollywood and given tons of money.
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