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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Apr 10, 2019 15:44:13 GMT
Doing a search for something else, I kept finding photos of classic stars who served in the army or navy or some branch of the armed forces. Thought this would be informative and interesting and also a way of acknowledging their service. Please post any and all related photos. Paul Newman: Served three years in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a radio operator  Tony Curtis: Spent over two years working as a crewman on a submarine tender, the USS Proteus (AS-19)  Ernest Borgnine: Joined the United States Navy, where he stayed for ten years until leaving in 1945 
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 10, 2019 16:02:56 GMT
Seaman Humphrey Bogart  The Ultimate. The most highly decorated American soldier of World War II – Audie Murphy  Movie Bad Guy Neville Brand was also a highly decorated WWII vet (couldn’t find a picture of young Neville Brand in the military)  Lee Marvin also saw action in WWII. He was a Purple Heart recipient  |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Apr 10, 2019 16:31:26 GMT
James Stewart From his IMDB bio: Having learned to fly in 1935, he was drafted into the United States Army in 1940 as a private (after twice failing the medical for being underweight). During the course of World War II he rose to the rank of colonel, first as an instructor at home in the United States, and later on combat missions in Europe. He remained involved with the United States Air Force Reserve after the war and retired in 1959 as a brigadier general.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 10, 2019 18:25:02 GMT
Clark Gable - Stationed in England and flew five missions as an observer-gunner. Dunno if he always dressed like this but looks badass nevertheless.
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 10, 2019 18:53:23 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 10, 2019 18:56:20 GMT
David Niven  |
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Post by sostie on Apr 10, 2019 19:24:17 GMT
Michael Caine - 2nd left, back row  |
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 10, 2019 19:32:30 GMT
I don't get how he made buck sergeant in less than two years!  |
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 10, 2019 19:33:17 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 10, 2019 19:33:52 GMT
Claude Rains Basil Rathbone  
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Post by sostie on Apr 10, 2019 19:35:05 GMT
Spike Milligan. Served with The British Army in the North African campaign in WWII. Later wounded in action at the Battle of Monte Cassino.  |
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Post by sostie on Apr 10, 2019 19:42:12 GMT
Dirk Bogarde served in WW II - commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment. He reached the rank of Captain and served in both the European and Pacific Theaters as an intelligence officer. He served 5 years and was awarded 7 medals. One of the first Allied officers in April 1945 to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Played General Browning in A Bridge Too Far who he knew from his time on Field Marshal Montgomery's staff.  |
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Post by snsurone on Apr 10, 2019 19:49:56 GMT
There was also Tyrone Power, who joined the Marines and saw action in the Pacific.
Plus, Robert Stack and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., both of whom were in the US Navy.
There were numerous patriotic actors who served their country proudly in WWII.
Although I don't know how the studio chiefs suspended their contracts during that time.
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Post by sostie on Apr 10, 2019 19:51:11 GMT
Jon Pertwee During the Second World War, Pertwee spent six years in the Royal Navy. He was a crew member of HMS Hood and was transferred off the ship for officer training shortly before she was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck, losing all but three men in May 1941.  Later, he was attached to the highly-secretive Naval Intelligence Division, working alongside future James Bond author Ian Fleming,  and reporting directly to Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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Post by sostie on Apr 10, 2019 20:00:26 GMT
Hardy Kruger In March 1945, Krüger was conscripted into the 38th SS Division Nibelungen where he was drawn into heavy fighting. The 16-year-old Krüger was ordered to eliminate a group of American soldiers. When he refused, he was sentenced to death for cowardice, but another SS officer stopped the order. Krüger described this experience as his break with Nazism. He later served as a messenger for the SS, but he escaped and hid out in Tyrol until the end of the war. 
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 10, 2019 20:05:52 GMT
Donald Pleasance, who played the Forger in The Great Escape, served in the RAF and was a POW at Stalag Luft I. Hannes Messemer, who played the camp commandant in the same movie, served in the German army, was taken prisoner at Stalingrad, and escaped.  |
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Post by spiderwort on Apr 11, 2019 1:29:12 GMT
Alec Guiness entered military service with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. In 1942, he was given an officer rank. As the commanding officer of a landing craft, he saw action in the invasion of Sicily, the invasion of Elbe, the invasion of Normandy, and during the Allied attempt to supply arms to anti-German Yugoslavian partisan groups.     Charles Laughton served with 21st battalion of the Huntingdonshire cyclist regiment and 7th battalion of Northamptonshire regiment in WWI. He was gassed during the war.  Henry Fonda joined the Navy in 1942 at age 37, saying he didn’t “want to be in a fake war in a studio.” He began his service aboard the destroyer USS Satterlee, with muster rolls indicating he was assigned to the ship at her commissioning. Fonda’s service won him the Bronze Star and later in the Broadway production of Mister Roberts he wore his own military cap.  Gene Hackman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps when he was 16 years old, lying about his age order to enlist. He served from 1946-1951, achieving the rank of corporal.   Bea Arthur was in the Unites States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve during World War II. She held the position of truck driver and typist during her time off duty. She was honorably discharged in September of 1945.   Jason Robards enlisted in the Navy in September 1940, before the war had begun. As a radioman 3rd Class he was serving aboard the USS Northampton when it was torpedoed and sunk in November 1942 at the Battle of Tassafaronga. Robards survived by treading water until he was picked up. Can't find a picture of him in uniform, but here's one where he's close to the right age:
After World War II broke out in Europe, Robert Montgomery enlisted in London for American field service and drove ambulances in France. When America entered the war, he joined the U.S. Navy and served as Naval Attache on British destroyers hunting U-boats. He became a PT boat commander, and participated in the D-Day invasion on board a Destroyer. He served five years of active war duty, was awarded a Bronze Star, the American Defense Service Ribbon, the European Theater Ribbon with two Battle Stars, one Overseas Service Bar, and was promoted to the rank of Lt. Commander.
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Post by spiderwort on Apr 11, 2019 1:33:43 GMT
David Niven Bravo, just wanted to add this info: "Niven was initially rejected by the RAF, so he joined the British Army soon after war was declared and eventually became a Lt. Colonel in the commandos. He saw action after D-Day in France, but generally refused to discuss his war record or reminisce about the conflict, despite being decorated for bravery. Only once did he ever speak about his war experiences. 'I was asked by some American friends to search out the grave of their son near Bastogne,' he once said. 'I found it where they told me I would, but it was among 27,000 others, and I told myself that here, Niven, were 27,000 reasons why you should keep your mouth shut after the war.' Incidentally, throughout much of his war service his batman was the then unknown Private Peter Ustinov."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 11, 2019 4:05:22 GMT
Tyrone Power - Marine  Robert Stack - Navy  Douglas Fairbanks,Jr. - Navy  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 11, 2019 4:11:35 GMT
  Glenn Ford made his official debut in Fox's Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939), and continued working in various small roles throughout the 1940s until his movie career was interrupted to join the Marines in World War II. Ford continued his military career in the Naval Reserve well into the Vietnam War, achieving the rank of captain. |
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