
John Wayne
Born May 26, 1907 · Winterset, Iowa, USA
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.
Movies

Baby Face

The Searchers

Rio Bravo

The Longest Day

True Grit

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

How the West Was Won

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Shootist

Stagecoach

The Quiet Man

The Alamo

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

El Dorado

3 Godfathers

Rio Lobo

The Sons of Katie Elder

The Undefeated

Chisum

Sands of Iwo Jima

The Cowboys

McLintock!

Hondo

In Harm's Way

Fort Apache

The Comancheros

The Horse Soldiers

Rio Grande
TV Shows

Sacrée soirée

What's My Line?

Wagon Train

The Red Skelton Show

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

The Lucy Show

The Beverly Hillbillies

Spécial cinéma

I Love Lucy

The Oscars

Gunsmoke

The Bob Hope Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Jack Benny Program

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Maude

Cinépanorama

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Screen Director's Playhouse

Alcoa Premiere

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Talking Pictures

Western von gestern

Hollywood

Hollywood and the Stars

Casablanca
More Movies

The War Wagon

The Green Berets

Rooster Cogburn

Cast a Giant Shadow

Operation Pacific

Hatari!

Red River

Angel and the Badman

Cahill: United States Marshal

Big Jake

Wake of the Red Witch

The High and the Mighty

Blood Alley

Reap the Wild Wind

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

McQ

The Wings of Eagles

Directed by John Ford

They Were Expendable

In Old Oklahoma

The Shepherd of the Hills

The Sea Chase

Breakdown: 1975

North to Alaska

The Train Robbers

The Long Voyage Home

The Movie Orgy

The Fabulous Allan Carr

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Donovan's Reef

Hellfighters

Back to Bataan

Without Reservations

Brannigan

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Tall in the Saddle

The Spoilers

Winds of the Wasteland

Flame of Barbary Coast

A Lady Takes a Chance

Swing Out, Sweet Land

The Barbarian and the Geisha

Legend of the Lost

Trouble Along the Way

Island in the Sky

Seven Sinners

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

The Fighting Kentuckian

The Man from Utah

Jet Pilot

The Conqueror

West of the Divide

Showbiz Goes to War

La Classe américaine

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

Born to the West

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Noah's Ark

Dark Command

The Fighting Seabees

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Flying Leathernecks

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Raquel!

'Neath the Arizona Skies

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

The Big Trail

Remembering Gene Wilder

The Duke at Fox

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

Lady for a Night

Circus World

The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

Flying Tigers

Allegheny Uprising

CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years

Sagebrush Trail

The Life of Jimmy Dolan

The Desert Trail

It's Showtime

Central Airport

The Western: A Lost TV Special

Atomic People

Randy Rides Alone

Big Jim McLain

The Trail Beyond

Reunion in France

I Married a Woman

In Old California

The Shootist: The Legend Lives On

The Night Riders

Blue Steel

Tycoon

King of the Pecos

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Riders of Destiny

Pals of the Saddle

Dakota

Born Reckless

The Shadow of the Eagle

The American West of John Ford

Marlene Dietrich: Home Movies

Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo

Avenging Angel

Overland Stage Raiders

Three Faces West

A Man Betrayed

John Ford & Monument Valley

Naughty America: Guns & Stripes

Hell Town

Salute

Flashing Spikes

Paradise Canyon

John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons

Westward Ho

Dictator: One Crazy Job

Guns Along The Trail

Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special

Wyoming Outlaw

The Man from Monterey

Ride Him, Cowboy

New Frontier

John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende

Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast

The Lawless Frontier

Three Texas Steers

Red River Range

The 10 from Texas

Idol of the Crowds

Cheer Up and Smile

The Lucky Texan

Pittsburgh

I Cover the War!

John Wayne - America at All Costs

Christmas Around the World with Perry Como

The Making of 'Rio Grande'

Words and Music

Rodeo Rocketeers

Lady from Louisiana

Cancel My Reservation

Santa Fe Stampede

Four Sons

Men Without Women

The Star Packer

College Coach

John Wayne-A Life on Film

The Big Stampede

Hooray for Hollywood

The Great K&A Train Robbery

Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais

Haunted Gold

His Private Secretary

The Lawless Nineties

The Dawn Rider

Texas Cyclone

Texas Terror

The Colter Craven Story

Movie Tough Guys

Two-Fisted Law

Claim Jumpers

Adventure's End

The Hurricane Express

The Three Musketeers

Elway

The Selling of the Pentagon

Bandits of the Badlands

No Substitute for Victory

Desert Command

Rainbow Valley

The New Frontier

Three Girls Lost

Fugitive

Bardelys the Magnificent

Speakeasy

The Drop Kick

The Screen Director

Mother Machree

The Black Watch

The Range Feud

Maker of Men

Girls Demand Excitement

Annie Laurie

Lawless Range

The Telegraph Trail

Sea Spoilers

Next Of Kin

Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend

The Lonely Trail

A Home Made Man

Conflict

Perry Como's Early American Christmas

Rough Romance

Klondike Gold

The Shadow Gang

Lady and Gent

The Drifter

The Oregon Trail

Arizona

California Straight Ahead

Memo for Joe

The John Wayne Story: The Early Years

On the Run

John Ford and Throwing

Somewhere in Sonora

Hangman's House

The Stagecoach Race

Brown of Harvard

Spiritual day in Minneapolis

The Victory Squad

The Deceiver

John Wayne on Film

Wayne Train

Vengence is Mine

The Draw-Back

A Nation Builds Under Fire

John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies

The John Wayne Story - The Later Years

Cowboy G-Man

Nuke 'Em, Duke




