John Wayne
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.
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Spiritual day in Minneapolis
Breakdown: 1975
Naughty America: Guns & Stripes
Elway
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Marlene Dietrich: Home Movies
Atomic People
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Remembering Gene Wilder
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
John Ford & Monument Valley
Christmas Around the World with Perry Como
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Nuke 'Em, Duke
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
The Duke at Fox
John Wayne-A Life on Film- JOJOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
La Classe américaine- YOYoung 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'
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
Movie Tough Guys
John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Showbiz Goes to War
Perry Como's Early American Christmas
Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast
This Little Bullet
That's Action
Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
The Shootist
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend
It's Showtime
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Hooray for Hollywood
Rooster Cogburn- TETexaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
Brannigan
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
McQ
Cahill: United States Marshal- THThe Man Behind the Star
Wayne Train
The Train Robbers
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
The Cowboys
The American West of John Ford
Directed by John Ford
Big Jake
The Selling of the Pentagon
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
Chisum
Raquel!
Rio Lobo
Swing Out, Sweet Land
No Substitute for Victory
The Undefeated
True Grit
Hellfighters
The Movie Orgy
The War Wagon
A Nation Builds Under Fire
El Dorado
The Victory Squad
Cast a Giant Shadow
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Greatest Story Ever Told
In Harm's Way- THThe Making of A Movie
Circus World- CHChoice
McLintock!
Donovan's Reef
How the West Was Won
Flashing Spikes
The Longest Day
Hatari!
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Comancheros- THThe Challenge of Ideas
The 10 from Texas
The Colter Craven Story
North to Alaska
The Horse Soldiers
Rio Bravo
The Barbarian and the Geisha
The Western: A Lost TV Special
I Married a Woman
Legend of the Lost
Jet Pilot
The Wings of Eagles
The Searchers
The Conqueror
Rookie of the Year
Blood Alley
The Sea Chase
The High and the Mighty
Hondo
Island in the Sky
Trouble Along the Way- YOYou're the Star
Big Jim McLain
The Quiet Man
Flying Leathernecks
Operation Pacific
Rio Grande
Sands of Iwo Jima
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Fighting Kentuckian
3 Godfathers
Wake of the Red Witch
Red River
Fort Apache
Tycoon
Angel and the Badman- DEDesert Command
Desert Command
Without Reservations
Dakota
They Were Expendable
Back to Bataan
Flame of Barbary Coast
Tall in the Saddle
Memo for Joe
The Fighting Seabees
In Old Oklahoma
A Lady Takes a Chance
Reunion in France
Pittsburgh
Flying Tigers
The Spoilers
In Old California
Reap the Wild Wind
Lady for a Night
The Shepherd of the Hills
Lady from Louisiana
A Man Betrayed
The Long Voyage Home
Seven Sinners
Three Faces West
Dark Command
Stagecoach
Allegheny Uprising
New Frontier
Three Texas Steers
The Night Riders
Wyoming Outlaw
Overland Stage Raiders
Santa Fe Stampede
Pals of the Saddle
Red River Range
Hell Town
Adventure's End
Idol of the Crowds
I Cover the War!
California Straight Ahead
Born to the West
Conflict
Sea Spoilers
The Stagecoach Race
The Lawless Nineties
The Oregon Trail
Winds of the Wasteland
The Lonely Trail
King of the Pecos
Lawless Range
Guns Along The Trail
Cowboy G-Man- Avenging Angel
- On the Run
Paradise Canyon
Rainbow Valley
Westward Ho
The Dawn Rider
The Desert Trail
The New Frontier
Texas Terror- Vengence is Mine
- Klondike Gold
- The Drifter
- Next Of Kin
- The Shadow Gang
- Bandits of the Badlands
- Rodeo Rocketeers
Claim Jumpers
The Trail Beyond
Blue Steel
Randy Rides Alone
'Neath the Arizona Skies
The Star Packer
The Lucky Texan
The Man from Utah
West of the Divide
The Lawless Frontier- Fugitive
His Private Secretary
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
The Three Musketeers
Somewhere in Sonora
The Man from Monterey
The Telegraph Trail
Riders of Destiny
Sagebrush Trail
Baby Face- THThe Hollywood Handicap
The Hurricane Express
Lady and Gent
Texas Cyclone
The Shadow of the Eagle- RURunning Hollywood
Two-Fisted Law
Haunted Gold
Ride Him, Cowboy
The Big Stampede
The Deceiver
The Range Feud
Three Girls Lost
Girls Demand Excitement
Maker of Men
Arizona
Men Without Women
Born Reckless
Cheer Up and Smile
Rough Romance
The Big Trail
Salute
The Black Watch
Words and Music
A Home Made Man
Hangman's House
Noah's Ark
Four Sons
Mother Machree
Annie Laurie
The Draw-Back
Brown of Harvard
The Great K & A Train Robbery- RORodeo Racketeers
