John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison), 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
Wagon Train
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
The Jack Benny Program
John Wayne
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
The Lucy Show
John Wayne
Alcoa Premiere
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Self
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The Oscars
Self
Screen Director's Playhouse
Mike Cronin
Hollywood and the Stars
Self (archive footage)
Maude
Himself
The Beverly Hillbillies
John Wayne (uncredited)
I Love Lucy
John Wayne
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
Gunsmoke
Self - Host, Introduction to the Series
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Tom Doniphon
Western von gestern
John Wyatt aka John Allen (archive footage)
Western von gestern
John Wyatt aka John Allen
Western von gestern
Stony Brooke (archive footage)
Rio Bravo
John Chance
Producers' Showcase
Self
The Searchers
Ethan Edwards
The Longest Day
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
True Grit
Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
Stagecoach
The Ringo Kid
McLintock!
George Washington McLintock
Baby Face
Jimmy McCoy Jr.
The Alamo
Col. Davy Crockett
El Dorado
Cole Thornton
The Undefeated
Colonel John Henry Thomas
Red River
Thomas Dunson
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Centurion at crucifixion
Rio Lobo
Col. Cord McNally
Fort Apache
Capt. Kirby York
How the West Was Won
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Sly
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood
Self
The Sons of Katie Elder
John Elder
Hatari!
Sean Mercer
Hondo
Hondo Lane
Chisum
John Chisum
The Comancheros
Jake Cutter
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles
Angel and the Badman
Quirt Evans
The Quiet Man
Sean Thornton
Cahill: United States Marshal
J.D. Cahill
Rio Grande
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke
Donovan's Reef
Michael "Guns" Donovan
The War Wagon
Taw Jackson
Big Jake
Jacob McCandles
The Cowboys
Wil Andersen
Winds of the Wasteland
John Blair
Blue Steel
John Carruthers
The Star Packer
U.S. Marshal John Travers
Rooster Cogburn
Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
The Horse Soldiers
Col John Marlowe
The Shootist
J.B. Books
North to Alaska
Sam McCord
The Man from Utah
John Weston
Four Sons
The Dawn Rider
John Mason
Paradise Canyon
John Wyatt
The Green Berets
Colonel Mike Kirby
The Lucky Texan
Jerry Mason
In Harm's Way
Capt. Rockwell Torrey
Dark Command
Bob Seton
The Trail Beyond
Rod Drew
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Chris Morrell
3 Godfathers
Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower
Hellfighters
Chance Buckman
The Big Trail
Breck Coleman
Tall in the Saddle
Rocklin
Operation Pacific
Duke E. Gifford
The Train Robbers
Lane
Cast a Giant Shadow
Gen. Mike Randolph
Sands of Iwo Jima
Sgt. John M. Stryker
The Long Voyage Home
Ole Olsen
Flying Tigers
Jim Gordon
The High and the Mighty
Dan Roman
They Were Expendable
Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan
McQ
McQ
Two-Fisted Law
Duke
Back to Bataan
Colonel Joseph Madden
Flying Leathernecks
Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby
The Spoilers
Glennister
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Reap the Wild Wind
Captain Jack Stuart
The Sea Chase
Captain Karl Ehrlich
Blood Alley
Capt. Tom Wilder
The Fighting Kentuckian
John Breen
Casablanca
Haunted Gold
John Mason
Guns Along The Trail
John Wyatt
The Conqueror
Temujin, later Genghis Khan
The Fighting Seabees
Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan
Dakota
John Devlin
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Noah's Ark
Flood Extra (uncredited)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self (archive footage)
In Old California
Tom Craig
Big Jim McLain
Jim McLain
Brannigan
Lt. Jim Brannigan
Circus World
Matt Masters
Legend of the Lost
Joe January
The Shepherd of the Hills
Young Matt Matthews
Directed by John Ford
Self (1969)
The Wings of Eagles
Frank W. 'Spig' Wead
The American West of John Ford
Self - Narrator
Pittsburgh
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham
Westward Ho
John Wyatt
Sagebrush Trail
John Brant
Three Faces West
John Phillips
Jet Pilot
Col. Jim Shannon
Annie Laurie
Island in the Sky
Captain Dooley
The Hurricane Express
The Air Pilot
Randy Rides Alone
Randy Bowers
La Classe américaine
George Abitbol (archive footage)
Tycoon
Johnny Munroe
The Lawless Frontier
John Tobin
His Private Secretary
Dick Wallace
Seven Sinners
Dan
Riders of Destiny
Singin' Sandy Saunders
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
In Old Oklahoma
Daniel F Somers
Men Without Women
Radioman on Surface (uncredited)
Without Reservations
Rusty Thomas
The Telegraph Trail
John Trent
The Big Stampede
Deputy Sheriff John Steele
Wake of the Red Witch
Capt. Ralls
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Townsend Harris
Red River Range
Stony Brooke
Desert Command
Tom Wayne
West of the Divide
Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
College Coach
Allegheny Uprising
Jim Smith
New Frontier
Stony Brooke
King of the Pecos
John Clayborn
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
Texas Terror
John Higgins
The Three Musketeers
Lt. Tom Wayne
Reunion in France
Pat Talbot
The Lonely Trail
Captain John Ashley
The New Frontier
John Dawson
Flame of Barbary Coast
Duke Fergus
Santa Fe Stampede
Stony Brooke
The Screen Director
Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
The Desert Trail
John Scott / John Jones
Trouble Along the Way
Stephen Aloysius Williams
The Range Feud
Clint Turner
Three Texas Steers
Stony Brooke
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Self (archive footage)
The Lawless Nineties
John Tipton
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
Raquel!
Self
Rainbow Valley
John Martin
The Shadow of the Eagle
Craig McCoy
A Lady Takes a Chance
Duke Hudkins
Lady from Louisiana
John Reynolds
Ride Him, Cowboy
John Drury
Battleground
Self (archive footage)
Overland Stage Raiders
Stony Brooke
Lady for a Night
Jackson Morgan
Lawless Range
John Middleton
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Jerry Mason
Wyoming Outlaw
Stony Brooke
The Black Watch
Black Watch Soldier (uncredited)
Born to the West
Dare Rudd
Central Airport
The Deceiver
Reginald Thorpe as a corpse
Bardelys the Magnificent
Guard (uncredited)
Memo for Joe
Self
Brown of Harvard
Yale Football Player (uncredited)
Lady and Gent
Buzz Kinney
Texas Cyclone
Steve Pickett
Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
Self (archive footage)
I Married a Woman
Actor in a Movie (uncredited)
Conflict
Pat Glendon
Speakeasy
Extra
The Night Riders
Stony Brooke
Running Hollywood
Emcee
Flashing Spikes
Marine Sergeant
Television: The First Fifty Years
Self (archive footage)
Three Lives
Self
The Selling of the Pentagon
Self (archive footage)
Born Reckless
Extra (uncredited)
The John Wayne Story: The Early Years
I Cover the War!
Bob Adams
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Cancel My Reservation
Himself (uncredited)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage)
Sea Spoilers
Bob Randall
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
Dictator: One Crazy Job
Self (archive footage)
The Oregon Trail
Capt John Delmont
The Making of 'Rio Grande'
Self (archive footage)
Somewhere in Sonora
John Bishop
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Smith
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Self (Archive Footage)
The Duke at Fox
Self (archive footage)
A Man Betrayed
Lynn Hollister
Salute
Words and Music
Pete Donahue (as Duke Morrison)
The Victory Squad
Himself - Host
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self (archive footage)
The Man from Monterey
John Holmes
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self - Roaster (archive footage)
Mother Machree
Pals of the Saddle
Stony Brooke
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
Self
The Great K&A Train Robbery
Extra (uncredited)
California Straight Ahead
Biff Smith
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
(archive footage)
No Substitute for Victory
Himself
Hangman's House
Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback
Adventure's End
Duke Slade
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
Rough Romance
Lumberjack (uncredited)
Hooray for Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
A Home Made Man
Man on Stool
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Davy Crockett
Avenging Angel
John Mason
Girls Demand Excitement
Peter Brooks
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
(archive footage)
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend
Himself/Narrator
John Ford & Monument Valley
Self (archive footage)
Three Girls Lost
Gordon Wales
The Drop Kick
Football Player / Extra in Stands
The John Wayne Story - The Later Years
Himself
Maker of Men
Dusty Rhodes
The Red Skelton Show
Self
The Red Skelton Show
Self (uncredited)
The Red Skelton Show
Self - Rooster Cogburn
Choice
Host
John Wayne-A Life on Film
Himself
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Swing Out, Sweet Land
Self - Host
John Wayne - America at All Costs
Himself (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Self (archive footage)
Wayne Train
Self
Idol of the Crowds
Johnny Hanson
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage)
The Shadow Gang
U.S. Marshal John Travers
Movie Tough Guys
Self (archive footage)
Arizona
Lt. Bob Denton
Christmas Around the World with Perry Como
Self
The Stagecoach Race
John Blair
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
(archive footage)
That's Action
self
The Draw-Back
Opposing Football Player
The 10 from Texas
(archive footage)
Claim Jumpers
Jerry Mason
Bandits of the Badlands
John Carruthers
The Making of A Movie
Himself
Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star
Himself
JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND
Himself
Sacrée soirée
Self (archive footage)
The Bob Hope Show
Self - Cameo
The Bob Hope Show
Self
The Hollywood Handicap
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
Self
The Challenge of Ideas
Self
Cheer Up and Smile
The Colter Craven Story
Cinépanorama
Self
Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special
This Little Bullet
Host
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Next Of Kin
Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
Nuke 'Em, Duke
Self (archive footage)
Rodeo Racketeers
You're the Star
Self
John Wayne on Film
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
Self (archive footage)
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
Self (archive)
John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies
Perry Como's Early American Christmas
Self
A Nation Builds Under Fire
Narrator
Dateline: Hollywood
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self