John Wayne
Biography
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
Acting

1959
asJohn Chance

1939
asThe Ringo Kid

1991
asSelf (archive footage)

1948
asThomas Dunson

1952
asSean Thornton

1956
asEthan Edwards

1965
asCenturion at crucifixion

1968
asSelf (archive footage)

1960
asCol. Davy Crockett

1961
asJake Cutter

1973
asJ.D. Cahill

1962
asSean Mercer

1960
asSam McCord

1953
asHondo Lane

1944
asLt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan

1971
asJacob McCandles

1962
asTom Doniphon

1947
asQuirt Evans

1968
asColonel Mike Kirby

1966
asCole Thornton

1935
asJohn Wyatt

1950
asLt. Col. Kirby Yorke

1933
asSingin' Sandy Saunders

1934
asRandy Bowers

1935
asJohn Higgins

1934
asJerry Mason

1933
asJohn Brant

1956
asTemujin, later Genghis Khan

1962
asGen. William Tecumseh Sherman

1978
asSelf

1941
asLynn Hollister

1946
asRusty Thomas

1976
asJ.B. Books

1957
asJoe January

1967
asNarrator

1962
asLt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort

1968
asChance Buckman

1970
asCol. Cord McNally

1974
asMcQ

1967
asTaw Jackson

1975
asLt. Jim Brannigan

1933
asJimmy McCoy Jr.

1973
asSelf

1942
asPat Talbot

1936
asJohn Blair

1934
asTed Hayden aka Gat Ganns

1934
asRod Drew

1940
asDan

1953
asCaptain Dooley

1955
asCaptain Karl Ehrlich

1940
asBob Seton

1949
asCapt. Nathan Cutting Brittles

1951
asDuke E. Gifford

1942
asTom Craig

1953
asStephen Aloysius Williams

1973
asLane

1942
asJackson Morgan

1945
asDuke Fergus

1952
asJim McLain

1943
asDaniel F Somers

1940
asJohn Phillips

1932
asCraig McCoy

1948
asCapt. Ralls

1933
asDick Wallace

1948
asRobert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower

1942
asJim Gordon

1955
asCapt. Tom Wilder

1930
asBreck Coleman

1964
asMatt Masters

1941
asYoung Matt Matthews

1948
asCapt. Kirby York

1963
asGeorge Washington McLintock

1944
asRocklin

1949
asJohn Breen

1942
asGlennister

1939
asJim Smith

1963
asMichael "Guns" Donovan

1972
asWil Andersen

1935
asJohn Wyatt

1934
asU.S. Marshal John Travers

1942
asCharles 'Pittsburgh' Markham

1965
asCapt. Rockwell Torrey

1993
asGeorge Abitbol (archive footage)

1942
asCaptain Jack Stuart

1965
asJohn Elder

1932
asThe Air Pilot

1933
as
1928
asFlood Extra (uncredited)

1927
as
1958
asActor in a Movie (uncredited)

1972
as
1930
asExtra (uncredited)

1929
as
1930
asRadioman on Surface (uncredited)

1926
asGuard (uncredited)

1926
asExtra (uncredited)

1933
as
1930
as
1929
asBlack Watch Soldier (uncredited)

1927
as
1928
as
1970
asJohn Chisum

1957
asFrank W. 'Spig' Wead

2001
as
1969
asReuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn

1975
asReuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn

1943
asDuke Hudkins

1951
asMaj. Daniel Xavier Kirby

1958
asTownsend Harris

1959
asCol John Marlowe

1954
asDan Roman

1950
asSgt. John M. Stryker

1945
asLt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan

1934
asJohn Tobin

1932
asDeputy Sheriff John Steele

1969
asColonel John Henry Thomas

1945
asColonel Joseph Madden

1982
as(archive footage)

1933
asJohn Holmes

1940
asOle Olsen

1932
asJohn Mason

1937
asDare Rudd

1935
asJohn Scott / John Jones

1934
asJohn Weston

1939
asStony Brooke

1935
asJohn Martin

1935
asJohn Mason

1934
asJohn Carruthers

1934
asChris Morrell

1932
asJohn Drury

1957
asCol. Jim Shannon

1933
asJohn Trent

1936
asJohn Clayborn

1932
asDuke

1933
asJohn Bishop

1932
asSteve Pickett

1935
asJohn Middleton

1947
asJohnny Munroe

1938
asStony Brooke

1945
asJohn Devlin

1926
asYale Football Player (uncredited)

1931
asLt. Bob Denton

1931
asClint Turner

1936
asJohn Tipton

1934
asJohn Carruthers

1936
asJohn Blair

1934
asU.S. Marshal John Travers

1933
asLt. Tom Wayne

1939
asStony Brooke

1934
asTed Hayden aka Gat Ganns

1935
asJohn Mason

1937
asJohnny Hanson

1988
asSelf (archive footage)

1938
asStony Brooke

1938
asStony Brooke

1970
asHimself

1946
asTom Wayne

1939
asStony Brooke

1936
asCaptain John Ashley

1938
asStony Brooke

1939
asStony Brooke

1973
asSelf (archive footage)

1990
as
1932
asBuzz Kinney

1937
asBob Adams

1937
asBiff Smith

1927
asFootball Player / Extra in Stands

1976
asJerry Mason

1953
asSelf

1977
asHost

1964
asHost

1961
asSelf

1935
asJohn Dawson

1932
asEmcee

1941
asJohn Reynolds

1984
as(archive footage)

1927
asOpposing Football Player

1930
asLumberjack (uncredited)

1933
asSmith

2023
asSelf (Archive Footage)

1993
asHimself

1998
asHimself

1931
asDusty Rhodes

1966
asGen. Mike Randolph

1976
as
1929
asPete Donahue (as Duke Morrison)

1987
as(archive footage)

2001
asSelf (archive footage)

1976
asSelf

1931
asPeter Brooks

2024
asSelf (archive footage)

2023
asSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)

2013
asSelf (archive footage)

2022
asSelf (archive footage)

1936
asCapt John Delmont
as
1934
asJerry Mason

1971
asSelf - Narrator

1936
asPat Glendon

1937
asDuke Slade

1960
as
1962
asMarine Sergeant

1928
asHorse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback

1999
asSelf (archive footage)

1993
asHimself

1936
asBob Randall

1977
asself

1970
asSelf

2016
asHimself

1974
asSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)

2012
asSelf

1971
asSelf (1969)

1976
asHimself/Narrator

1991
as(archive footage)

2000
asHimself

1970
asSelf - Host

1975
asSelf (archive footage)

1928
asMan on Stool

1991
asSelf (archive footage)

1951
asSelf (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

1944
asSelf

1929
asExtra

1961
as(archive footage)

2019
asSelf - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

2009
asSelf (archive footage)

2014
asSelf (archive footage)

1997
asSelf (archive footage)

1976
asSelf (archive footage)

2019
asHimself (archive footage)

1993
asSelf (archive footage)

1971
asSelf (archive footage)

1935
asJohn Wyatt

1998
asSelf - Roaster (archive footage)

1966
asHimself - Host

1993
as
1992
asDavy Crockett

1931
asGordon Wales

2010
asSelf (archive footage)

1998
asSelf (archive footage)

2013
asSelf (archive footage)

1953
asSelf

1970
asSelf

2010
asSelf (archive footage)

1975
as(archive footage)

1931
asReginald Thorpe as a corpse

1976
asSelf (archive footage)

1932
as
2019
asSelf (archive)

1965
asHimself
asSelf
asJohn Wayne
asJohn Wayne (uncredited)
asJohn Wayne
asSelf
asSelf - Host, Introduction to the Series
asSelf (uncredited)
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
as
asSelf
as
as
asMike Cronin
asSelf (archive footage)
asGen. William Tecumseh Sherman
asSelf (archive footage)
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf - Cameo
asSelf
asJohn Wayne
asSelf - Mystery Guest
asSelf
asSelf (archive footage)
asSelf (archive footage)
asJohn Wyatt aka John Allen
asJohn Wyatt aka John Allen (archive footage)
asStony Brooke (archive footage)
asHimself
asSelf
asSelf (archive footage)
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf - Rooster Cogburn
asSelf (uncredited)
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf (archive footage)
asSelf - Winner
asSelf
Production

1960
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1971
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1947
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1953
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1956
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1953
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1954
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1951
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1954
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1956
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1955
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1973
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1950
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1974
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1949
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1951
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1954
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1967
asCrew

1928
as
1927
asDirecting

1960
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1968
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