John Wayne
American actor (1907-1979) · United States · Actors · Died at 72
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Something wrong?For three decades he was the face of American masculinity on screen - the cowboy, the soldier, the man who didn't flinch. Wayne turned Westerns into mythology and his own nickname into a style of being.
A life in dates
Rooster CogburnFilm, Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn1973
The Dean Martin Celebrity RoastsSeries1972
MaudeSeries, Himself
The CowboysFilm, 1972Wil Andersen1971“I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.”In their wordsMay 1971Playboy interview, May 1971“There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean, ya know.”In their wordsMay 1971Playboy interview, May 1971“With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so.”In their wordsMay 1971Playboy interview, May 19711970Academy Award for Best ActorAwardGolden Plate AwardAwardOwen Wister AwardAward
ChisumFilm, 1970John Chisum1969“Wow! If I'd have known that I would have put that patch on thirty-five years earlier. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm no stranger to this podium.”In their words1969 Academy Awards speech for Best Actor in True Grit.Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture DramaAward1968
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InSeries
The Green BeretsFilm, 1968Director1966Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille AwardAward
El DoradoFilm, 1966Cole Thornton1963
Donovan's ReefFilm, Michael "Guns" Donovan1962
Hatari!Film, Sean Mercer1961
The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1960
North to AlaskaFilm, Sam McCord1958“In fact, I don't even call myself an actor. I'm a reactor. I listen to what to what the other guys says and I react to it. That's the John Wayne method.”In their wordsSpeaking in 1958 with ; as quoted in The Hollywood Cage (1969) by Hamblett, reproduced in "The Hollywood Cage': Wayne Has Method, Goldwyn1957
Tonight Starring Jack PaarSeries1956
7 Men from NowFilm, Producer1955
GunsmokeSeries1954“We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!”In their words1954, in an interview with Hedda Hopper regarding his marriage to Esperanza "Chata" Baur.1952
The Quiet ManFilm, Sean Thornton1951
I Love LucySeries, John Wayne1950
The Bob Hope ShowSeries1949
She Wore a Yellow RibbonFilm, Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles1947
Angel and the BadmanFilm, Producer1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1933
Baby FaceFilm, Jimmy McCoy Jr.1907Born26 May 1907Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 7
, I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.
There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean, ya know.
With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so.
Filmography 40
LALa Classe américaine
TSThe ShootistRCRooster Cogburn
CMCahill: United States MarshalTCThe Cowboys
BJBig Jake
RLRio LoboCHChisum
TGTrue Grit
TUThe UndefeatedTBThe Green Berets
TWThe War WagonEDEl Dorado
TEThe Sons of Katie Elder
TTThe Greatest Story Ever Told
IWIn Harm's Way
MCMcLintock!DRDonovan's Reef
TDThe Longest Day
TVThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
HWHow the West Was WonHAHatari!
TCThe Comancheros
TAThe AlamoNANorth to Alaska
RBRio Bravo
TSThe Horse Soldiers
TSThe SearchersMN7 Men from Now
HOHondoTMThe Quiet Man
RGRio Grande
SJSands of Iwo JimaSRShe Wore a Yellow Ribbon
RRRed River
FAFort Apache
GO3 GodfathersABAngel and the Badman
STStagecoachBFBaby Face336 credits on file
Television 24
SSSacrée soirée
SCSpécial cinémaTRThe Dean Martin Celebrity RoastsMAMaude
THThe Glen Campbell Goodtime HourRIRowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TCThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TSThe Merv Griffin Show
THThe Beverly Hillbillies
TSThe Lucy ShowTSThe Mike Douglas Show
WTWagon TrainTPTonight Starring Jack Paar
CICinépanoramaGUGunsmoke
TOThe Oscars
TSThe Red Skelton ShowILI Love Lucy
WLWhat's My Line?
THThe Colgate Comedy HourTSThe Bob Hope Show
TPThe Jack Benny Program
TSThe Ed Sullivan ShowGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Born Marion Morrison in Iowa in 1907, he lost a football scholarship after a bodysurfing accident and drifted into bit parts at Fox. The Big Trail gave him a lead in 1930 but flopped; he spent the thirties grinding through B-Westerns. Stagecoach in 1939 made him a star. What followed was Red River, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Rio Bravo - 142 pictures in all, most of them Westerns, all of them carrying the same square-jawed certainty. He won his only Oscar for True Grit in 1969, playing a one-eyed marshal at sixty-two. His last role was The Shootist in 1976, an aging gunfighter dying of cancer; Wayne himself had stomach cancer and died in June 1979, two months after his final public appearance at the Academy Awards.
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