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