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John Wayne
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I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.
— Playboy interview, May 1971
John Wayne
American actor (1907–1979)
- Fame72.8
- Momentum1.5
- Global rank#249
Source-basedStable
- Fame72.8
- Momentum1.5
- Global rank#249
- United States rank#166
- Actors rank#193
- Wikipedia284K
Lived 1907–1979, aged 72United States
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Updated 2026-06-08
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.
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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 gunfight…
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John Wayne
said
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.
— Playboy interview, May 1971
John Wayne
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With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so.
— Playboy interview, May 1971
John Wayne
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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.
— 1969 Academy Awards speech for Best Actor in True Grit.
John Wayne
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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.
— Speaking in 1958 with ; as quoted in The Hollywood Cage (1969) by Hamblett, reproduced in "The Hollywood Cage': Wayne Has Method, Goldwyn
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- California Hall of Fame
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- Golden Plate Award
- Owen Wister Award
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Stable72.8
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Momentum1.5
Historical34.2
Now attention25.1
Source confidence80.0
Completeness90.0
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