John Wayne
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: May 26, 1907
Day of Death: June 11, 1979 (72 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
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Actor John Wyatt
Paradise Canyon
Actor John Higgins
Texas Terror
Actor John Wyatt
Westward Ho
Actor John Scott / John Jones
The Desert Trail
Actor John Martin
Rainbow Valley
Actor John Mason
The Dawn Rider
Actor John Middleton
Lawless Range
Actor John Mason
Avenging Angel
Actor John Dawson
The New Frontier
Actor John Wyatt
Guns Along The Trail
1934
Actor Randy Bowers
Randy Rides Alone
Actor Jerry Mason
The Lucky Texan
Actor Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
West of the Divide
Actor Rod Drew
The Trail Beyond
Actor U.S. Marshal John Travers
The Star Packer
Actor John Tobin
The Lawless Frontier
Actor John Weston
The Man from Utah
Actor John Carruthers
Blue Steel
Actor Chris Morrell
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Actor John Carruthers
Bandits of the Badlands
Actor U.S. Marshal John Travers
The Shadow Gang
Actor Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
Next Of Kin
Actor Jerry Mason
Claim Jumpers
1933
Actor Singin' Sandy Saunders
Riders of Destiny
Actor John Brant
Sagebrush Trail
Actor Jimmy McCoy Jr.
Baby Face
Actor Dick Wallace
His Private Secretary
Actor
College Coach
Actor
Central Airport
Actor John Holmes
The Man from Monterey
Actor John Trent
The Telegraph Trail
Actor John Bishop
Somewhere in Sonora
Actor Lt. Tom Wayne
The Three Musketeers
Actor Smith
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1932
Actor Craig McCoy
The Shadow of the Eagle
Actor The Air Pilot
The Hurricane Express
Actor Deputy Sheriff John Steele
The Big Stampede
Actor John Mason
Haunted Gold
Actor John Drury
Ride Him, Cowboy
Actor Duke
Two-Fisted Law
Actor Steve Pickett
Texas Cyclone
Actor Buzz Kinney
Lady and Gent
Actor Emcee
Running Hollywood
