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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 26, 1907
Place of Birth:
Winterset, Iowa, USA
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John Wayne
Biography
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons | Self (Archive Footage) |
| 2023 | Sly | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2022 | Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | John Ford: The Man Who Invented America | Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage) |
| 2019 | John Wayne - America at All Costs | Himself (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais | Self (archive) |
| 2016 | John Wayne on Film | Himself |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | John Ford & Monument Valley | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Dictator: One Crazy Job | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Christmas Around the World with Perry Como | Self |
| 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Nuke 'Em, Duke | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | The Shootist: The Legend Lives On | |
| 2001 | The Duke at Fox | Self (archive footage) |
| 2000 | John Wayne-A Life on Film | Himself |
| 1999 | Television: The First Fifty Years | Self (archive footage) |
| 1998 | JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND | Himself |
| 1998 | The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts | Self - Roaster (archive footage) |
| 1998 | Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman | Self (archive footage) |
| 1997 | The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | George Abitbol (archive footage) |
| 1993 | The John Wayne Story - The Later Years | Himself |
| 1993 | Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star | Himself |
| 1993 | The Making of 'Rio Grande' | Self (archive footage) |
| 1993 | The John Wayne Story: The Early Years | |
| 1992 | John Wayne's 'The Alamo' | Davy Crockett |
| 1991 | Movie Tough Guys | Self (archive footage) |
| 1991 | John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende | (archive footage) |
| 1991 | Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) |
| 1990 | John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies | |
| 1988 | Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC | Self (archive footage) |
| 1987 | Hollywood's Hidden Secrets | (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) |
| 1982 | Showbiz Goes to War | (archive footage) |
| 1978 | Perry Como's Early American Christmas | Self |
| 1977 | This Little Bullet | Host |
| 1977 | That's Action | self |
| 1976 | The Shootist | J.B. Books |
| 1976 | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | Jerry Mason |
| 1976 | Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special | |
| 1976 | CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years | Self |
| 1976 | Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend | Himself/Narrator |
| 1976 | It's Showtime | Self (archive footage) |
| 1976 | Hooray for Hollywood | Self (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Brannigan | Lt. Jim Brannigan |
| 1975 | Rooster Cogburn | Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn |
| 1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television | (archive footage) |
| 1974 | McQ | McQ |
| 1974 | Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1973 | Cahill: United States Marshal | J.D. Cahill |
| 1973 | Wayne Train | Self |
| 1973 | The Train Robbers | Lane |
| 1973 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks | Self (archive footage) |
| 1972 | The Cowboys | Wil Andersen |
| 1972 | Cancel My Reservation | |
| 1971 | Big Jake | Jacob McCandles |
| 1971 | The American West of John Ford | Self - Narrator |
| 1971 | Directed by John Ford | Self (1969) |
| 1971 | The Selling of the Pentagon | Self (archive footage) |
| 1970 | Rio Lobo | Col. Cord McNally |
| 1970 | Chisum | John Chisum |
| 1970 | No Substitute for Victory | Himself |
| 1970 | Raquel! | Self |
| 1970 | Swing Out, Sweet Land | Self - Host |
| 1970 | Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo | Self |
| 1969 | True Grit | Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn |
| 1969 | The Undefeated | Colonel John Henry Thomas |
| 1968 | The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) |
| 1968 | The Green Berets | Colonel Mike Kirby |
| 1968 | Hellfighters | Chance Buckman |
| 1967 | A Nation Builds Under Fire | Narrator |
| 1967 | The War Wagon | Taw Jackson |
| 1966 | El Dorado | Cole Thornton |
| 1966 | Cast a Giant Shadow | Gen. Mike Randolph |
| 1966 | The Victory Squad | Himself - Host |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Centurion at crucifixion |
| 1965 | In Harm's Way | Capt. Rockwell Torrey |
| 1965 | The Sons of Katie Elder | John Elder |
| 1964 | Circus World | Matt Masters |
| 1964 | Choice | Host |
| 1963 | McLintock! | George Washington McLintock |
| 1963 | Donovan's Reef | Michael "Guns" Donovan |
| 1962 | Hatari! | Sean Mercer |
| 1962 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Tom Doniphon |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman |
| 1962 | The Longest Day | Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort |
| 1962 | Flashing Spikes | Marine Sergeant |
| 1961 | The Comancheros | Jake Cutter |
| 1961 | The Challenge of Ideas | Self |
| 1961 | The 10 from Texas | (archive footage) |
| 1960 | The Alamo | Col. Davy Crockett |
| 1960 | North to Alaska | Sam McCord |
| 1960 | The Colter Craven Story | |
| 1959 | Rio Bravo | John Chance |
| 1959 | The Horse Soldiers | Col John Marlowe |
| 1958 | I Married a Woman | Actor in a Movie (uncredited) |
| 1958 | The Barbarian and the Geisha | Townsend Harris |
| 1957 | Legend of the Lost | Joe January |
| 1957 | The Wings of Eagles | Frank W. 'Spig' Wead |
| 1957 | Jet Pilot | Col. Jim Shannon |
| 1956 | The Searchers | Ethan Edwards |
| 1956 | The Conqueror | Temujin, later Genghis Khan |
| 1955 | The Sea Chase | Captain Karl Ehrlich |
| 1955 | Blood Alley | Capt. Tom Wilder |
| 1954 | The High and the Mighty | Dan Roman |
| 1953 | Hondo | Hondo Lane |
| 1953 | Island in the Sky | Captain Dooley |
| 1953 | Trouble Along the Way | Stephen Aloysius Williams |
| 1953 | You're the Star | Self |
| 1953 | Three Lives | Self |
| 1952 | The Quiet Man | Sean Thornton |
| 1952 | Big Jim McLain | Jim McLain |
| 1951 | Operation Pacific | Duke E. Gifford |
| 1951 | Flying Leathernecks | Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby |
| 1951 | The Screen Director | Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Rio Grande | Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke |
| 1950 | Sands of Iwo Jima | Sgt. John M. Stryker |
| 1949 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles |
| 1949 | The Fighting Kentuckian | John Breen |
| 1948 | Red River | Thomas Dunson |
| 1948 | Wake of the Red Witch | Capt. Ralls |
| 1948 | 3 Godfathers | Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower |
| 1948 | Fort Apache | Capt. Kirby York |
| 1947 | Angel and the Badman | Quirt Evans |
| 1947 | Tycoon | Johnny Munroe |
| 1946 | Without Reservations | Rusty Thomas |
| 1946 | Desert Command | Tom Wayne |
| 1945 | Flame of Barbary Coast | Duke Fergus |
| 1945 | They Were Expendable | Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan |
| 1945 | Back to Bataan | Colonel Joseph Madden |
| 1945 | Dakota | John Devlin |
| 1944 | The Fighting Seabees | Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan |
| 1944 | Tall in the Saddle | Rocklin |
| 1944 | Memo for Joe | Self |
| 1943 | In Old Oklahoma | Daniel F Somers |
| 1943 | A Lady Takes a Chance | Duke Hudkins |
| 1942 | Reunion in France | Pat Talbot |
| 1942 | Lady for a Night | Jackson Morgan |
| 1942 | In Old California | Tom Craig |
| 1942 | Flying Tigers | Jim Gordon |
| 1942 | The Spoilers | Glennister |
| 1942 | Pittsburgh | Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham |
| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind | Captain Jack Stuart |
| 1941 | A Man Betrayed | Lynn Hollister |
| 1941 | The Shepherd of the Hills | Young Matt Matthews |
| 1941 | Lady from Louisiana | John Reynolds |
| 1940 | Seven Sinners | Dan |
| 1940 | Dark Command | Bob Seton |
| 1940 | Three Faces West | John Phillips |
| 1940 | The Long Voyage Home | Ole Olsen |
| 1939 | Stagecoach | The Ringo Kid |
| 1939 | Allegheny Uprising | Jim Smith |
| 1939 | New Frontier | Stony Brooke |
| 1939 | Three Texas Steers | Stony Brooke |
| 1939 | Wyoming Outlaw | Stony Brooke |
| 1939 | The Night Riders | Stony Brooke |
| 1938 | Santa Fe Stampede | Stony Brooke |
| 1938 | Overland Stage Raiders | Stony Brooke |
| 1938 | Red River Range | Stony Brooke |
| 1938 | Pals of the Saddle | Stony Brooke |
| 1937 | Born to the West | Dare Rudd |
| 1937 | Idol of the Crowds | Johnny Hanson |
| 1937 | I Cover the War! | Bob Adams |
| 1937 | California Straight Ahead | Biff Smith |
| 1937 | Adventure's End | Duke Slade |
| 1936 | Winds of the Wasteland | John Blair |
| 1936 | King of the Pecos | John Clayborn |
| 1936 | The Lawless Nineties | John Tipton |
| 1936 | The Stagecoach Race | John Blair |
| 1936 | The Lonely Trail | Captain John Ashley |
| 1936 | The Oregon Trail | Capt John Delmont |
| 1936 | Conflict | Pat Glendon |
| 1936 | Sea Spoilers | Bob Randall |
| 1935 | Paradise Canyon | John Wyatt |
| 1935 | Texas Terror | John Higgins |
| 1935 | Westward Ho | John Wyatt |
| 1935 | The Desert Trail | John Scott / John Jones |
| 1935 | Rainbow Valley | John Martin |
| 1935 | The Dawn Rider | John Mason |
| 1935 | Lawless Range | John Middleton |
| 1935 | Avenging Angel | John Mason |
| 1935 | The New Frontier | John Dawson |
| 1935 | Guns Along The Trail | John Wyatt |
| 1934 | Randy Rides Alone | Randy Bowers |
| 1934 | The Lucky Texan | Jerry Mason |
| 1934 | The Trail Beyond | Rod Drew |
| 1934 | West of the Divide | Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns |
| 1934 | The Star Packer | U.S. Marshal John Travers |
| 1934 | The Lawless Frontier | John Tobin |
| 1934 | The Man from Utah | John Weston |
| 1934 | Blue Steel | John Carruthers |
| 1934 | 'Neath the Arizona Skies | Chris Morrell |
| 1934 | Bandits of the Badlands | John Carruthers |
| 1934 | The Shadow Gang | U.S. Marshal John Travers |
| 1934 | Next Of Kin | Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns |
| 1934 | Claim Jumpers | Jerry Mason |
| 1933 | Riders of Destiny | Singin' Sandy Saunders |
| 1933 | Sagebrush Trail | John Brant |
| 1933 | Baby Face | Jimmy McCoy Jr. |
| 1933 | His Private Secretary | Dick Wallace |
| 1933 | Central Airport | |
| 1933 | College Coach | |
| 1933 | The Man from Monterey | John Holmes |
| 1933 | The Telegraph Trail | John Trent |
| 1933 | Somewhere in Sonora | John Bishop |
| 1933 | The Three Musketeers | Lt. Tom Wayne |
| 1933 | The Life of Jimmy Dolan | Smith |
| 1932 | The Shadow of the Eagle | Craig McCoy |
| 1932 | The Hurricane Express | The Air Pilot |
| 1932 | The Big Stampede | Deputy Sheriff John Steele |
| 1932 | Haunted Gold | John Mason |
| 1932 | Ride Him, Cowboy | John Drury |
| 1932 | Texas Cyclone | Steve Pickett |
| 1932 | Two-Fisted Law | Duke |
| 1932 | Lady and Gent | Buzz Kinney |
| 1932 | Running Hollywood | Emcee |
| 1932 | The Hollywood Handicap | |
| 1931 | Arizona | Lt. Bob Denton |
| 1931 | The Range Feud | Clint Turner |
| 1931 | Maker of Men | Dusty Rhodes |
| 1931 | Girls Demand Excitement | Peter Brooks |
| 1931 | Three Girls Lost | Gordon Wales |
| 1931 | The Deceiver | Reginald Thorpe as a corpse |
| 1930 | The Big Trail | Breck Coleman |
| 1930 | Born Reckless | Extra (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Men Without Women | Radioman on Surface (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Cheer Up and Smile | |
| 1930 | Rough Romance | Lumberjack (uncredited) |
| 1929 | The Black Watch | Black Watch Soldier (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Salute | |
| 1929 | Words and Music | Pete Donahue (as Duke Morrison) |
| 1929 | Speakeasy | Extra |
| 1928 | Noah's Ark | Flood Extra (uncredited) |
| 1928 | Four Sons | |
| 1928 | Hangman's House | Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback |
| 1928 | A Home Made Man | Man on Stool |
| 1927 | Annie Laurie | |
| 1927 | Mother Machree | |
| 1927 | The Drop Kick | Football Player / Extra in Stands |
| 1927 | The Draw-Back | Opposing Football Player |
| 1926 | The Great K&A Train Robbery | Extra (uncredited) |
| 1926 | Bardelys the Magnificent | Guard (uncredited) |
| 1926 | Brown of Harvard | Yale Football Player (uncredited) |
| Rodeo Racketeers |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Talking Pictures | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Battleground | Self (archive footage) |
| 1987 | Sacrée soirée | Self (archive footage) |
| 1980 | Hollywood | Self |
| 1978 | Western von gestern | John Wyatt aka John Allen |
| 1978 | Western von gestern | John Wyatt aka John Allen (archive footage) |
| 1978 | Western von gestern | Stony Brooke (archive footage) |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self (archive footage) |
| 1973 | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Self |
| 1973 | The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts | Self |
| 1972 | Maude | Himself |
| 1971 | V.I.P. Schaukel | Self |
| 1969 | The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour | Self |
| 1968 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Self (uncredited) |
| 1968 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Self |
| 1967 | Dateline: Hollywood | |
| 1963 | Hollywood and the Stars | Self (archive footage) |
| 1962 | The Lucy Show | John Wayne |
| 1962 | The Beverly Hillbillies | John Wayne (uncredited) |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1961 | Alcoa Premiere | |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self (archive footage) |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
| 1957 | Wagon Train | Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman |
| 1957 | Tonight Starring Jack Paar | Self |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Self - Host, Introduction to the Series |
| 1955 | Casablanca | |
| 1955 | Screen Director's Playhouse | Mike Cronin |
| 1954 | Producers' Showcase | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1951 | I Love Lucy | John Wayne |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show | Self - Rooster Cogburn |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show | Self (uncredited) |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show | Self |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Self |
| 1950 | The Bob Hope Show | Self - Cameo |
| 1950 | The Bob Hope Show | Self |
| 1950 | The Jack Benny Program | John Wayne |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Mystery Guest |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Winner |