John Wayne
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
302
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-05-26
Day of death
1979-06-11 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Winterset, Iowa, USA
John Wayne
Biography
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison) (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades. Born in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne grew up in Southern California. He was president of Glendale High class of 1925. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he appeared mostly in small bit parts. His first leading role came in Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail (1930), which led to leading roles in numerous B movies throughout the 1930s, many of them in the Western genre. Wayne's career took off in 1939, with John Ford's Stagecoach making him an instant star. He went on to star in 142 pictures. Biographer Ronald Davis said, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage. Eighty-three of his movies were Westerns, and in them, he played cowboys, cavalrymen, and unconquerable loners extracted from the Republic's central creation myth." Wayne's other well-known Western roles include a cattleman driving his herd north on the Chisholm Trail in Red River (1948), a Civil War veteran whose young niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in The Searchers (1956), and a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer for a woman's hand in marriage in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). He is also remembered for his roles in The Quiet Man (1952), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Longest Day (1962). In his final screen performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in The Shootist (1976). He appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era, and his last public appearance was at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979.
Known For
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Golden Globe Awards
The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show
What's My Line?
Wagon Train
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Merv Griffin Show
Sacrée Soirée
The Oscars
Gunsmoke
The Lucy Show
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Spécial cinéma
The Jack Benny Program
I Love Lucy
The Bob Hope Show
The Bob Hope Show
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
The Ed Sullivan Show
McQ
Cinépanorama
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Searchers
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
The Longest Day
Hellfighters
Blood Alley
3 Godfathers
Speakeasy
McLintock!
Paradise Canyon
Chisum
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
The Cowboys
Screen Director's Playhouse
Rio Bravo
Baby Face
Maude
I Married a Woman
Big Jim McLain
In Old Oklahoma
El Dorado
Ride Him, Cowboy
Jet Pilot
V.I.P. Schaukel
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Without Reservations
Elway
The War Wagon
Claim Jumpers
Alcoa Premiere
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The Night Riders
The Fighting Seabees
It's Showtime
Salute
Words and Music
Fugitive
The Sea Chase
The Undefeated
West of the Divide
They Were Expendable
Hollywood
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Arizona
Running Hollywood
True Grit
Lady for a Night
King of the Pecos
Rodeo Rocketeers
North to Alaska
Rainbow Valley
Red River
Haunted Gold
How the West Was Won
Brown of Harvard
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Big Jake
Stagecoach
Men Without Women
Directed by John Ford
The Desert Trail
The Duke at Fox
Hondo
Sagebrush Trail
Westward Ho
The Quiet Man
A Man Betrayed
Dead Man's Wire
Fort Apache
Girls Demand Excitement
Talking Pictures
In Harm's Way
Born to the West
Tycoon
Rio Lobo
Western von gestern
Western von gestern
Western von gestern
Randy Rides Alone
Producers' Showcase
Hatari!
The Comancheros
Rio Grande
The Alamo
The Horse Soldiers
The Fighting Kentuckian
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Three Girls Lost
The Shootist
The Conqueror
Central Airport
The Big Stampede
The Sons of Katie Elder
Raquel!
Blue Steel
Donovan's Reef
Avenging Angel
I Cover the War!
The High and the Mighty
Hangman's House
The Green Berets
Lady and Gent
The Movie Orgy
In Old California
Cahill: United States Marshal
John Ford and Throwing
Rodeo Racketeers
Rooster Cogburn
Pittsburgh
Hollywood and the Stars
Reunion in France
Mother Machree
Lawless Range
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Reap the Wild Wind
Cast a Giant Shadow
The Spoilers
Brannigan
Choice
Casablanca
La Classe américaine
Sands of Iwo Jima
You're the Star
The Train Robbers
Angel and the Badman
Flying Leathernecks
Dakota
Flame of Barbary Coast
The Big Trail
The Trail Beyond
The Long Voyage Home
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
Tall in the Saddle
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Allegheny Uprising
Legend of the Lost
The Shadow Gang
Wake of the Red Witch
Noah's Ark
Born Reckless
The American West of John Ford
Circus World
Cancel My Reservation
Island in the Sky
The Wings of Eagles
Back to Bataan
Winds of the Wasteland
Operation Pacific
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
The Shepherd of the Hills
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
The Three Musketeers
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Showbiz Goes to War
Seven Sinners
Riders of Destiny
Television: The First Fifty Years
Flying Tigers
Dark Command
Trouble Along the Way
Santa Fe Stampede
The New Frontier
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
The Shadow of the Eagle
The Star Packer
Texas Terror
The Lucky Texan
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Three Texas Steers
The Great K&A Train Robbery
Guns Along The Trail
The Deceiver
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
The Lonely Trail
Three Faces West
The Hollywood Handicap
Red River Range
The Man from Utah
A Lady Takes a Chance
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
The Screen Director
Swing Out, Sweet Land
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
Sea Spoilers
Three Lives
Wyoming Outlaw
Adventure's End
Overland Stage Raiders
Two-Fisted Law
The Drop Kick
Desert Command
The Black Watch
Idol of the Crowds
The Oregon Trail
The 10 from Texas
The Range Feud
New Frontier
His Private Secretary
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
The Hurricane Express
College Coach
The Lawless Frontier
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Lady from Louisiana
Four Sons
Battleground
Hooray for Hollywood
The Telegraph Trail
Bardelys the Magnificent
John Ford & Monument Valley
The Challenge of Ideas
The Dawn Rider
Annie Laurie
Cheer Up and Smile
Maker of Men
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Christmas Around the World with Perry Como
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Wayne Train
John Wayne - America at All Costs
The Making of A Movie
The Lawless Nineties
Conflict
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
Dateline: Hollywood
Flashing Spikes
Atomic People
Texas Cyclone
John Wayne-A Life on Film
Movie Tough Guys
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
The Victory Squad
Dictator: One Crazy Job
Klondike Gold
Rough Romance
Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star
California Straight Ahead
Memo for Joe
No Substitute for Victory
A Nation Builds Under Fire
Somewhere in Sonora
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
That's Action
Next Of Kin
The Selling of the Pentagon
Naughty America: Guns & Stripes
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
The Colter Craven Story
The John Wayne Story: The Early Years
On the Run
The Man from Monterey
Bandits of the Badlands
Vengence is Mine
Perry Como's Early American Christmas
Cowboy G-Man
The Draw-Back
The Making of 'Rio Grande'
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend
The Stagecoach Race
Pals of the Saddle
This Little Bullet
Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special
The Drifter
A Home Made Man
Nuke 'Em, Duke
John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies
JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND
The John Wayne Story - The Later Years
John Wayne on Film
