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John Wayne
Known for: ActingMarion 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.
Filmography 139
Baby Face
as Jimmy McCoy Jr.
Η Αιχμάλωτος της Ερήμου
Η Μεγαλύτερη Ημέρα του Πολέμου
Ρίο Μπράβο
True Grit
Η κατάκτηση της Δύσης
Επέλαση την Αυγή
as Capt. Kirby York
Ο άνθρωπος που σκότωσε τον Λίμπερτι Βάλανς
Με το Χέρι στη Σκανδάλη
as J.B. Books
Άλαμο
as Col. Davy Crockett
Ελντοράντο
Οι Καουμπόις
Η ταχυδρομική άμαξα
Οι τρεις δραπέτες
as Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower
McLintock!
Ρίο Γκράντε
Ο Ήσυχος Άνθρωπος
Rio Lobo
Το κόκκινο ποτάμι
Εναντίον όλων των παρανόμων
Και οι τέσσερις ήταν γενναίοι
Angel and the Badman
Οι ακατανίκητοι
as Taw Jackson
Hatari!
Ηρωική επέλαση
as Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles
Τα Πράσινα Μπερέ
In Harm's Way
Κομαντσέρος
Οι αήττητοι
as Colonel John Henry Thomas
Τετάρτη πρωί, η εκτέλεση
North to Alaska
Τα Τέσσερα Λιοντάρια της Ερήμου
as Gen. Mike Randolph
Ο Μονόφλαμος
as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
Στους άμμους της Ιβοζίμα
Μονομαχία στη Δύση
as Jacob McCandles
The Horse Soldiers
Χόντο
Αρπαγές του Μαύρου Χρυσού
as Daniel F Somers
The High and the Mighty
Η συμμορία των επτά δολοφόνων
Το γεράκι των 5 θαλασσών
as Captain Karl Ehrlich
Blood Alley
Back to Bataan
as Colonel Joseph Madden
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
as Self (archive footage)
Ο δρόμος των χαμένων εραστών
Donovan's Reef
Reap the Wild Wind
as Captain Jack Stuart
Οι Ληστές των Τρένων
as Lane
They Were Expendable
as Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan
The Conqueror
as Temujin
Ψηλός στη σέλα
as Rocklin
Wake of the Red Witch
Ο δαίμων της μάχης
McQ
as McQ
The Long Voyage Home
as Ole Olsen
Το μεγάλο μονοπάτι
as Breck Coleman
Operation Pacific
as Duke E. Gifford
Hellfighters
as Chance Buckman
Brannigan
The Wings of Eagles
as Frank W. 'Spig' Wead
The Shepherd of the Hills
as Young Matt Matthews
Jet Pilot
as Col. Jim Shannon
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Οι Επτά Αμαρτωλοί
as Dan
Flying Tigers
Dark Command
Reunion in France
as Pat Talbot
A Lady Takes a Chance
as Duke Hudkins
Track of the Cat
Directed by John Ford
as Self (1969)
Χαμένη αποστολή
The Fighting Seabees
Το Μεγαλύτερο Τσίρκο του Κόσμου
as Matt Masters
Without Reservations
as Rusty Thomas
West of the Divide
Winds of the Wasteland
Trouble Along the Way
as Stephen Aloysius Williams
Flying Leathernecks
as Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby
Ο άνδρας από τη Γιούτα
The Spoilers
as Glennister
Flame of Barbary Coast
The Trail Beyond
In Old California
Big Jim McLain
as Jim McLain
Lady for a Night
as Jackson Morgan
Η Πόλη της Κολάσεως
The Star Packer
Blue Steel
Ο βάρβαρος και η γκέισα
Good-bye, My Lady
Producer
Το μονοπάτι της ερήμου
O Tραγουδιστής Σάντυ
as Singin' Sandy Saunders
Tycoon
as Johnny Munroe
Allegheny Uprising
as Jim Smith
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Randy Rides Alone
Sagebrush Trail
as John Brant
New Frontier
as Stony Brooke
The Shadow of the Eagle
as Craig McCoy
A Man Betrayed
as Lynn Hollister
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
as Self (archive footage)
Westward Ho
King of the Pecos
as John Clayborn
The Black Watch
as Black Watch Soldier (uncredited)
Τα πιστόλια που σκορπίζαν τον θάνατο
Born Reckless
as Extra (uncredited)
Hell Town
as Dare Rudd
Ο Τυχερός Τεξανός
The American West of John Ford
Three Faces West
The Western: A Lost TV Special
as Self
Τα Αστέρια του Τέξας
as Stony Brooke
Men Without Women
as Radioman on Surface (uncredited)
Atomic People
as Self (archive footage)
Ring of Fear
The Lawless Frontier
The Dawn Rider
John Ford & Monument Valley
as Self (archive footage)
John Wayne - America at All Costs
as Himself (archive footage)
Ride Him, Cowboy
as John Drury
Χαρικέιν εξπρές
as The Air Pilot
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
as Self (Archive Footage)
His Private Secretary
The Man from Monterey
as John Holmes
Overland Stage Raiders
The Lonely Trail
Santa Fe Stampede
as Stony Brooke
Guns Along The Trail
Texas Terror
The Range Feud
as Clint Turner
No Substitute for Victory
as Sekf
Texas Cyclone
as Steve Pickett
The Telegraph Trail
as John Trent
Lawless Range
as John Middleton
The Three Musketeers
as Lt. Tom Wayne
Salute
as Midshipman Bill
The Big Stampede
as Deputy Sheriff John Steele