Acting
John Wayne
1907-05-26 · 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.
Known for
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Rio Bravo
Stagecoach
The Longest Day
True Grit
The Quiet Man
Red River
El Dorado
How the West Was Won
Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Alamo
Rio Grande
The Shootist
The Sons of Katie Elder
Movie credits · 277
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Spiritual day in Minneapolis
Elway
Breakdown: 1975
Naughty America: Guns & Stripes
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Atomic People
Remembering Gene Wilder
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
John Ford and Throwing
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
John Wayne - America at All Costs
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
The Fabulous Allan Carr
John Wayne on Film
Dictator: One Crazy Job
John Ford & Monument Valley
Christmas Around the World with Perry Como
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Nuke 'Em, Duke
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
The Duke at Fox
John Wayne-A Life on Film
Television: The First Fifty Years
JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
La Classe américaine
Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star
The John Wayne Story - The Later Years
The John Wayne Story: The Early Years
The Making of 'Rio Grande'
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
Movie Tough Guys
John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies
TV credits · 36
Talking Pictures
Battleground
Sacrée soirée
Hollywood
Western von gestern
Spécial cinéma
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Maude
V.I.P. Schaukel
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Dateline: Hollywood
Hollywood and the Stars
The Lucy Show
The Merv Griffin Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Mike Douglas Show
Alcoa Premiere
Wagon Train
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Cinépanorama
Screen Director's Playhouse
Casablanca
Gunsmoke
Producers' Showcase
The Oscars
I Love Lucy
The Red Skelton Show
The Jack Benny Program
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Bob Hope Show
What's My Line?
The Ed Sullivan Show
Golden Globe Awards
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