John Wayne
Actor/Actriz
254
Movies
31
TV Shows
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.
As Actor/Actress
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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The Mike Douglas Show
Self (archive footage)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Wagon Train
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Los Beverly Ricos (The Beverly Hillbillies)
John Wayne (uncredited)
The Merv Griffin Show
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The Lucy Show
John Wayne
Sacrée soirée
Self (archive footage)
Yo Amo a Lucy
John Wayne
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
The Red Skelton Show
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The Oscars
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Gunsmoke
Self - Host, Introduction to the Series
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage)
The Colgate Comedy Hour
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Show de Ed Sullivan
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The Jack Benny Program
John Wayne
The Bob Hope Show
Self - Cameo
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
Maude
Himself
Cinépanorama
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Screen Director's Playhouse
Mike Cronin
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
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El Dorado
Cole Thornton
Alcoa Premiere
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
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Temple de acero
Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
El día más largo
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Río Bravo
Sheriff John T. Chance
Behind the Camera
El Álamo
Director, Productor
Hondo
Productor
Los boinas verdes
Director
Lucha de gigantes
Productor Ejecutivo
Gigante entre los hombres
Productor Ejecutivo
The High and the Mighty
Productor
Detective implacable
Productor Ejecutivo
7 Men from Now
Productor
Angel and the Badman
Productor
Callejón sangriento
Productor
Los Chacales del Oeste
Productor Ejecutivo
El Rastro de la Pantera
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Bullfighter and the Lady
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Island in the Sky
Productor
El valiente de Kentucky
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Good-bye, My Lady
Productor
Four Sons
Property Master
Mother Machree
Property Master
Rough Romance
Props
Ring of Fear
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Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen
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The Dangerous Stranger
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