John Wayne
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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
Credits
Baby Face (1933)
as Jimmy McCoy Jr.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
as Tom Doniphon
Dead Man's Wire (2026)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Searchers (1956)
as Ethan Edwards
The Longest Day (1962)
as Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
True Grit (1969)
as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
Rio Bravo (1959)
as Sheriff John T. Chance
How the West Was Won (1962)
as William Sherman
3 Godfathers (1948)
as Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower
Chisum (1970)
as John Chisum
The Alamo (1960)
as Col. Davy Crockett
The Quiet Man (1952)
as Sean Thornton
El Dorado (1966)
as Cole Thornton
McLintock! (1963)
as George Washington McLintock
Stagecoach (1939)
as The Ringo Kid
Red River (1948)
as Thomas Dunson
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
as Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
as John Elder
McQ (1974)
as McQ
The War Wagon (1967)
as Taw Jackson
Sagebrush Trail (1933)
as John Brant
The Cowboys (1972)
as Wil Andersen
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
as Col John Marlowe
In Harm's Way (1965)
as Capt. Rockwell Torrey
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
as Centurion at crucifixion
Directed by John Ford (1971)
as Self (1969)
Fort Apache (1948)
as Capt. Kirby York
The Green Berets (1968)
as Colonel Mike Kirby
The Train Robbers (1973)
as Lane
Rio Lobo (1970)
as Col. Cord McNally
The High and the Mighty (1954)
as Dan Roman
The Undefeated (1969)
as Colonel John Henry Thomas
The Shootist (1976)
as J.B. Books
The Comancheros (1961)
as Jake Cutter
Hell Town (1937)
as Dare Rudd
Rio Grande (1950)
as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke
Donovan's Reef (1963)
as Michael "Guns" Donovan
Central Airport (1933)
Actor
Big Jake (1971)
as Jacob McCandles
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as Captain Jack Stuart
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
They Were Expendable (1945)
as Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan
Hatari! (1962)
as Sean Mercer
Hondo (1953)
as Hondo Lane
Brannigan (1975)
as Lt. Jim Brannigan
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
as John Breen
The Trail Beyond (1934)
as Rod Drew
Rodeo Rocketeers (1934)
as John Weston
La Classe américaine (1993)
as George Abitbol (archive footage)
In Old Oklahoma (1943)
as Daniel F Somers
Cahill: United States Marshal (1973)
as J.D. Cahill
Hellfighters (1968)
as Chance Buckman
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026)
as Ethan Edwards (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blood Alley (1955)
as Capt. Tom Wilder
Legend of the Lost (1957)
as Joe January
Operation Pacific (1951)
as Duke E. Gifford
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
as Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
as Frank W. 'Spig' Wead
Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)
as Sgt. John M. Stryker
The Big Trail (1930)
as Breck Coleman
Avenging Angel (1935)
as John Mason
Back to Bataan (1945)
as Colonel Joseph Madden
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
as Rocklin
Blue Steel (1934)
as John Carruthers
Three Girls Lost (1931)
as Gordon Wales
The Big Stampede (1932)
as Deputy Sheriff John Steele
North to Alaska (1960)
as Sam McCord
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
as Ole Olsen
Cancel My Reservation (1972)
as Himself (uncredited)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
Born to the West (1937)
as Dare Rudd
Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
as John Drury
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
Jet Pilot (1957)
as Col. Jim Shannon
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
as Capt. Ralls
The Spoilers (1942)
as Glennister
Dakota (1945)
as John Devlin
Circus World (1964)
as Matt Masters
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2019)
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
The Conqueror (1956)
as Temujin
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
as Young Matt Matthews
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
as Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan
Westward Ho (1935)
as John Wyatt
Dark Command (1940)
as Bob Seton
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
as Duke Fergus
The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
as Townsend Harris
Reunion in France (1942)
as Pat Talbot
It's Showtime (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
The John Wayne Story: The Early Years (1993)
Actor
Trouble Along the Way (1953)
as Stephen Aloysius Williams
I Married a Woman (1958)
as Actor in a Movie (uncredited)
'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
as Chris Morrell
Noah's Ark (1928)
as Flood Extra (uncredited)
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
as Duke Hudkins
Big Jim McLain (1952)
as Jim McLain
The Night Riders (1939)
as Stony Brooke
Hooray for Hollywood (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
as Gen. Mike Randolph
The Sea Chase (1955)
as Captain Karl Ehrlich
Desert Command (—)
as Tom Wayne
In Old California (1942)
as Tom Craig
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
as Guard (uncredited)
Salute (1929)
Actor
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Raquel! (1970)
as Self
The Lawless Frontier (1934)
as John Tobin
Desert Command (1946)
as Tom Wayne
The American West of John Ford (1971)
as Self - Narrator
Seven Sinners (1940)
as Dan
Without Reservations (1946)
as Rusty Thomas
The Three Musketeers (1933)
as Lt. Tom Wayne
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais (2019)
as Self (archive)
Words and Music (1929)
as Pete Donahue (as Duke Morrison)
Tycoon (1947)
as Johnny Munroe
Remembering Gene Wilder (2024)
as Self (archive photo)
The Dawn Rider (1935)
as John Mason
Lady from Louisiana (1941)
as John Reynolds
Angel and the Badman (1947)
as Quirt Evans
Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
as Jim Smith
The Hurricane Express (1932)
as The Air Pilot
Choice (1964)
as Host
Riders of Destiny (1933)
as Singin' Sandy Saunders
Red River Range (1938)
as Stony Brooke
The Lawless Nineties (1936)
as John Tipton
New Frontier (1939)
as Stony Brooke
West of the Divide (1934)
as Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
Santa Fe Stampede (1938)
as Stony Brooke
Next Of Kin (1934)
as Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
Winds of the Wasteland (1936)
as John Blair
Three Faces West (1940)
as John Phillips
The Duke at Fox (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
Born Reckless (1930)
as Extra (uncredited)
Hangman's House (1928)
as Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback
Haunted Gold (1932)
as John Mason
Flying Tigers (1942)
as Jim Gordon
A Man Betrayed (1941)
as Lynn Hollister
The Shadow Gang (1934)
as U.S. Marshal John Travers
The Telegraph Trail (1933)
as John Trent
Elway (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
as Smith
Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
as Stony Brooke
Guns Along The Trail (1935)
as John Wyatt
Naughty America: Guns & Stripes (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Lawless Range (1935)
as John Middleton
Lady for a Night (1942)
as Jackson Morgan
The Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
as Craig McCoy
The Making of A Movie (1965)
as Himself
Two-Fisted Law (1932)
as Duke
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
The Star Packer (1934)
as U.S. Marshal John Travers
King of the Pecos (1936)
as John Clayborn
The Desert Trail (1935)
as John Scott / John Jones
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Randy Rides Alone (1934)
as Randy Bowers
The Screen Director (1951)
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
The Man from Utah (1934)
as John Weston
Pittsburgh (1942)
as Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham
Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970)
as Self - Host
Men Without Women (1930)
as Radioman on Surface (uncredited)
Showbiz Goes to War (1982)
as Self (archive footage)
His Private Secretary (1933)
as Dick Wallace
Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
The New Frontier (1935)
as John Dawson
The Lucky Texan (1934)
as Jerry Mason
Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
as John Bishop
Texas Cyclone (1932)
as Steve Pickett
Three Texas Steers (1939)
as Stony Brooke
Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
as Peter Brooks
Atomic People (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Fugitive (1933)
as John
The Black Watch (1929)
as Black Watch Soldier (uncredited)
The Oregon Trail (1936)
as Capt John Delmont
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
Four Sons (1928)
Actor
Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast (1977)
as Self
Paradise Canyon (1935)
as John Wyatt
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
as (archive footage)
John Wayne's 'The Alamo' (1992)
as Davy Crockett
The Man from Monterey (1933)
as John Holmes
The Hollywood Handicap (1932)
Actor
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973)
as Self (archive footage)
Rainbow Valley (1935)
as John Martin
The Victory Squad (1966)
as Self - Host
Texas Terror (1935)
as John Higgins
Idol of the Crowds (1937)
as Johnny Hanson
Mother Machree (1927)
Actor
Brown of Harvard (1926)
as Yale LIneback Player
Wyoming Outlaw (1939)
as Stony Brooke
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1974)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Range Feud (1931)
as Clint Turner
Lady and Gent (1932)
as Buzz Kinney
Island in the Sky (1953)
as Captain Dooley
The Making of 'Rio Grande' (1993)
as Self (archive footage)
The Drop Kick (1927)
as Football Player / Extra in Stands
The Man Behind the Star (1973)
as Self
The Lonely Trail (1936)
as Captain John Ashley
Flashing Spikes (1962)
as Marine Sergeant
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
as Jerry Mason
Bandits of the Badlands (1934)
as John Carruthers
You're the Star (1953)
as Self
Movie Tough Guys (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926)
as Extra (uncredited)
John Wayne-A Life on Film (2000)
as Himself
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1998)
as Self - Roaster (archive footage)
Claim Jumpers (1934)
as Jerry Mason
The Western: A Lost TV Special (1958)
as Self
Maker of Men (1931)
as Dusty Rhodes
John Ford & Monument Valley (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
Annie Laurie (1927)
Actor
Wayne Train (1973)
as Self
Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
Actor
Running Hollywood (1932)
as Emcee
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television (1975)
as (archive footage)
Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special (1976)
Actor
The Colter Craven Story (1960)
Actor
Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star (1993)
as Himself
Cowboy G-Man (1935)
as John Wyatt
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The 10 from Texas (1961)
as (archive footage)
Adventure's End (1937)
as Duke Slade
Memo for Joe (1944)
as Self
Klondike Gold (1934)
as Rod Drew
JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND (1998)
as Himself
Speakeasy (1929)
as Extra
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years (1976)
as Self
The John Wayne Story - The Later Years (1993)
as Himself
The Drifter (1934)
as Randy
The Challenge of Ideas (1961)
as Self
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1976)
as Himself/Narrator
California Straight Ahead (1937)
as Biff Smith
College Coach (1933)
as Football player (uncredited)
I Cover the War! (1937)
as Bob Adams
On the Run (1935)
as John Jones
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende (1991)
as (archive footage)
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo (1970)
as Self
The Deceiver (1931)
as Reginald Thorpe as a corpse
Arizona (1931)
as Lt. Bob Denton
No Substitute for Victory (1970)
as Sekf
John Wayne - America at All Costs (2019)
as Himself (archive footage)
Three Lives (1953)
as Self
John Wayne on Film (2016)
as Himself
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons (2023)
as Self (Archive Footage)
Rough Romance (1930)
as Lumberjack (uncredited)
That's Action (1977)
as self
Sea Spoilers (1936)
as Bob Randall
Pals of the Saddle (1938)
as Stony Brooke
Rodeo Racketeers (—)
Actor
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Christmas Around the World with Perry Como (2012)
as Self
Vengence is Mine (1934)
as John Tobin
Spiritual day in Minneapolis (2026)
Actor
The Selling of the Pentagon (1971)
as Self (archive footage)
This Little Bullet (1977)
as Host
John Ford and Throwing (2022)
Actor
John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies (1990)
Actor
Dictator: One Crazy Job (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On (2001)
Actor
A Nation Builds Under Fire (1967)
as Narrator
Conflict (1936)
as Pat Glendon
The Draw-Back (1927)
as Opposing Football Player
A Home Made Man (1928)
as Man on Stool
Nuke 'Em, Duke (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
The Stagecoach Race (1936)
as John Blair
Perry Como's Early American Christmas (1978)
as Self