Name
John Wayne
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1907-05-26
Deathday
1979-06-11 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Winterset, Iowa, USA
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
The Longest Day
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadian...
Relase Date : 25 Sep, 1962
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The Searchers
(1,645 Votes)
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As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his m...
Relase Date : 16 May, 1956
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1,353 Votes)
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Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Donipho...
Relase Date : 13 Apr, 1962
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How the West Was Won
(522 Votes)
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The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War...
Relase Date : 2 Nov, 1962
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Fort Apache
(429 Votes)
7.03
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the mi...
Relase Date : 21 May, 1948
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Movies
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- 1959 Rio Bravo as Sheriff John T. Chance
- 1939 Stagecoach as The Ringo Kid
- 1991 Movie Tough Guys as Self (archive footage)
- 1948 Red River as Thomas Dunson
- 1952 The Quiet Man as Sean Thornton
- 1956 The Searchers as Ethan Edwards
- 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told as Centurion at crucifixion
- 1968 The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
- 1960 The Alamo as Col. Davy Crockett
- 1961 The Comancheros as Jake Cutter
- 1973 Cahill: United States Marshal as J.D. Cahill
- 1962 Hatari! as Sean Mercer
- 1960 North to Alaska as Sam McCord
- 1953 Hondo as Hondo Lane
- 1944 The Fighting Seabees as Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan
- 1971 Big Jake as Jacob McCandles
- 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Tom Doniphon
- 1947 Angel and the Badman as Quirt Evans
- 1968 The Green Berets as Colonel Mike Kirby
- 1966 El Dorado as Cole Thornton
- 1935 Paradise Canyon as John Wyatt
- 1950 Rio Grande as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke
- 1933 Riders of Destiny as Singin' Sandy Saunders
- 1934 Randy Rides Alone as Randy Bowers
- 1935 Texas Terror as John Higgins
- 1934 The Lucky Texan as Jerry Mason
- 1933 Sagebrush Trail as John Brant
- 1956 The Conqueror as Temujin
- 1962 How the West Was Won as William Sherman
- 1978 Perry Como's Early American Christmas as Self
- 1941 A Man Betrayed as Lynn Hollister
- 1946 Without Reservations as Rusty Thomas
- 1976 The Shootist as J.B. Books
- 1957 Legend of the Lost as Joe January
- 1967 A Nation Builds Under Fire as Narrator
- 1962 The Longest Day as Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
- 1968 Hellfighters as Chance Buckman
- 1970 Rio Lobo as Col. Cord McNally
- 1974 McQ as McQ
- 1967 The War Wagon as Taw Jackson
- 1975 Brannigan as Lt. Jim Brannigan
- 1933 Baby Face as Jimmy McCoy Jr.
- 1973 Wayne Train as Self
- 1942 Reunion in France as Pat Talbot
- 1936 Winds of the Wasteland as John Blair
- 1934 West of the Divide as Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
- 1934 The Trail Beyond as Rod Drew
- 1940 Seven Sinners as Dan
- 1953 Island in the Sky as Captain Dooley
- 1955 The Sea Chase as Captain Karl Ehrlich
- 1940 Dark Command as Bob Seton
- 1949 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon as Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles
- 1951 Operation Pacific as Duke E. Gifford
- 1942 In Old California as Tom Craig
- 1953 Trouble Along the Way as Stephen Aloysius Williams
- 1973 The Train Robbers as Lane
- 1942 Lady for a Night as Jackson Morgan
- 1945 Flame of Barbary Coast as Duke Fergus
- 1952 Big Jim McLain as Jim McLain
- 1943 In Old Oklahoma as Daniel F Somers
- 1940 Three Faces West as John Phillips
- 1932 The Shadow of the Eagle as Craig McCoy
- 1948 Wake of the Red Witch as Capt. Ralls
- 1933 His Private Secretary as Dick Wallace
- 1948 3 Godfathers as Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower
- 1942 Flying Tigers as Jim Gordon
- 1955 Blood Alley as Capt. Tom Wilder
- 1930 The Big Trail as Breck Coleman
- 1964 Circus World as Matt Masters
- 1941 The Shepherd of the Hills as Young Matt Matthews
- 1948 Fort Apache as Capt. Kirby York
- 1963 McLintock! as George Washington McLintock
- 1944 Tall in the Saddle as Rocklin
- 1949 The Fighting Kentuckian as John Breen
- 1942 The Spoilers as Glennister
- 1939 Allegheny Uprising as Jim Smith
- 1963 Donovan's Reef as Michael "Guns" Donovan
- 1972 The Cowboys as Wil Andersen
- 1935 Westward Ho as John Wyatt
- 1934 The Star Packer as U.S. Marshal John Travers
- 1942 Pittsburgh as Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham
- 1965 In Harm's Way as Capt. Rockwell Torrey
- 1993 La Classe américaine as George Abitbol (archive footage)
- 1942 Reap the Wild Wind as Captain Jack Stuart
- 1965 The Sons of Katie Elder as John Elder
- 1932 The Hurricane Express as The Air Pilot
- 1933 College Coach as Football player (uncredited)
- 1928 Noah's Ark as Flood Extra (uncredited)
- 1927 Mother Machree
- 1958 I Married a Woman as Actor in a Movie (uncredited)
- 1972 Cancel My Reservation as Himself (uncredited)
- 1930 Born Reckless as Extra (uncredited)
- 1929 Salute as Midshipman Bill
- 1930 Men Without Women as Radioman on Surface (uncredited)
- 1926 Bardelys the Magnificent as Guard (uncredited)
- 1926 The Great K&A Train Robbery as Extra (uncredited)
- 1933 Central Airport
- 1930 Cheer Up and Smile as Roy
- 1929 The Black Watch as Black Watch Soldier (uncredited)
- 1927 Annie Laurie
- 1928 Four Sons
- 1970 Chisum as John Chisum
- 1957 The Wings of Eagles as Frank W. 'Spig' Wead
- 2001 The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
- 1969 True Grit as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
- 1975 Rooster Cogburn as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
- 1943 A Lady Takes a Chance as Duke Hudkins
- 1951 Flying Leathernecks as Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby
- 1958 The Barbarian and the Geisha as Townsend Harris
- 1959 The Horse Soldiers as Col John Marlowe
- 1954 The High and the Mighty as Dan Roman
- 1950 Sands of Iwo Jima as Sgt. John M. Stryker
- 1945 They Were Expendable as Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan
- 1934 The Lawless Frontier as John Tobin
- 1932 The Big Stampede as Deputy Sheriff John Steele
- 1969 The Undefeated as Colonel John Henry Thomas
- 1945 Back to Bataan as Colonel Joseph Madden
- 1982 Showbiz Goes to War as Self (archive footage)
- 1933 The Man from Monterey as John Holmes
- 1940 The Long Voyage Home as Ole Olsen
- 1932 Haunted Gold as John Mason
- 1937 Born to the West as Dare Rudd
- 1935 The Desert Trail as John Scott / John Jones
- 1934 The Man from Utah as John Weston
- 1939 New Frontier as Stony Brooke
- 1935 Rainbow Valley as John Martin
- 1935 The Dawn Rider as John Mason
- 1934 Blue Steel as John Carruthers
- 1934 'Neath the Arizona Skies as Chris Morrell
- 1932 Ride Him, Cowboy as John Drury
- 1957 Jet Pilot as Col. Jim Shannon
- 1933 The Telegraph Trail as John Trent
- 1936 King of the Pecos as John Clayborn
- 1932 Two-Fisted Law as Duke
- 1933 Somewhere in Sonora as John Bishop
- 1932 Texas Cyclone as Steve Pickett
- 1935 Lawless Range as John Middleton
- 1947 Tycoon as Johnny Munroe
- 1938 Santa Fe Stampede as Stony Brooke
- 1945 Dakota as John Devlin
- 1926 Brown of Harvard as Yale LIneback Player
- 1931 Arizona as Lt. Bob Denton
- 1931 The Range Feud as Clint Turner
- 1936 The Lawless Nineties as John Tipton
- 1934 Bandits of the Badlands as John Carruthers
- 1936 The Stagecoach Race as John Blair
- 1934 The Shadow Gang as U.S. Marshal John Travers
- 1933 The Three Musketeers as Lt. Tom Wayne
- 1939 Three Texas Steers as Stony Brooke
- 1934 Next Of Kin as Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
- 1935 Avenging Angel as John Mason
- 1937 Idol of the Crowds as Johnny Hanson
- 1988 Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1938 Red River Range as Stony Brooke
- 1938 Overland Stage Raiders as Stony Brooke
- 1970 No Substitute for Victory as Sekf
- 1946 Desert Command as Tom Wayne
- 1939 Wyoming Outlaw as Stony Brooke
- 1936 The Lonely Trail as Captain John Ashley
- 1938 Pals of the Saddle as Stony Brooke
- 1939 The Night Riders as Stony Brooke
- 1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks as Self (archive footage)
- 1990 John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies
- 1932 Lady and Gent as Buzz Kinney
- 1937 I Cover the War! as Bob Adams
- 1937 California Straight Ahead as Biff Smith
- 1927 The Drop Kick as Football Player / Extra in Stands
- 1976 Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch as Jerry Mason
- 1953 You're the Star as Self
- 1977 This Little Bullet as Host
- 1964 Choice as Host
- 1961 The Challenge of Ideas as Self
- 1935 The New Frontier as John Dawson
- 1932 Running Hollywood as Emcee
- 1941 Lady from Louisiana as John Reynolds
- 1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
- 1927 The Draw-Back as Opposing Football Player
- 1930 Rough Romance as Lumberjack (uncredited)
- 1933 The Life of Jimmy Dolan as Smith
- 2023 John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons as Self (Archive Footage)
- 1993 The John Wayne Story - The Later Years as Himself
- 1998 JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND as Himself
- 1931 Maker of Men as Dusty Rhodes
- 1966 Cast a Giant Shadow as Gen. Mike Randolph
- 1976 Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special
- 1929 Words and Music as Pete Donahue (as Duke Morrison)
- 2001 The Duke at Fox as Self (archive footage)
- 1976 CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years as Self
- 1931 Girls Demand Excitement as Peter Brooks
- 2024 The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 John Ford & Monument Valley as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend as Self (archive footage)
- 1936 The Oregon Trail as Capt John Delmont
- Soon Rodeo Racketeers
- 1934 Claim Jumpers as Jerry Mason
- 1971 The American West of John Ford as Self - Narrator
- 1936 Conflict as Pat Glendon
- 1937 Adventure's End as Duke Slade
- 1960 The Colter Craven Story
- 1962 Flashing Spikes as Marine Sergeant
- 1928 Hangman's House as Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback
- 1999 Television: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage)
- 1993 Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star as Himself
- 1936 Sea Spoilers as Bob Randall
- 1977 That's Action as self
- 1970 Raquel! as Self
- 2016 John Wayne on Film as Himself
- 1974 Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2012 Christmas Around the World with Perry Como as Self
- 1971 Directed by John Ford as Self (1969)
- 1976 Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend as Himself/Narrator
- 1991 John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende as (archive footage)
- 2000 John Wayne-A Life on Film as Himself
- 1970 Swing Out, Sweet Land as Self - Host
- 1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- 1928 A Home Made Man as Man on Stool
- 1991 Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
- 1951 The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
- 1944 Memo for Joe as Self
- 1929 Speakeasy as Extra
- 1961 The 10 from Texas as (archive footage)
- 2019 John Ford: The Man Who Invented America as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
- 2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)
- 1976 It's Showtime as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 John Wayne - America at All Costs as Himself (archive footage)
- 1993 The Making of 'Rio Grande' as Self (archive footage)
- 1971 The Selling of the Pentagon as Self (archive footage)
- 1935 Guns Along The Trail as John Wyatt
- 1998 The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self - Roaster (archive footage)
- 1966 The Victory Squad as Self - Host
- 1993 The John Wayne Story: The Early Years
- 1992 John Wayne's 'The Alamo' as Davy Crockett
- 1931 Three Girls Lost as Gordon Wales
- 2010 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 Dictator: One Crazy Job as Self (archive footage)
- 1953 Three Lives as Self
- 1970 Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo as Self
- 2010 Nuke 'Em, Duke as Self (archive footage)
- 1975 Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television as (archive footage)
- 1931 The Deceiver as Reginald Thorpe as a corpse
- 1976 Hooray for Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 1932 The Hollywood Handicap
- 2019 Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais as Self (archive)
- 1965 The Making of A Movie as Himself
- 2024 Atomic People as Self (archive footage)
- 1933 Fugitive as John
- 1935 On the Run as John Jones
- 1935 Cowboy G-Man as John Wyatt
- 1934 Rodeo Rocketeers as John Weston
- 1934 Klondike Gold as Rod Drew
- 1934 Vengence is Mine as John Tobin
- 1934 The Drifter as Randy
- 1958 The Western: A Lost TV Special as Self
- 2022 John Ford and Throwing
- 2025 Naughty America: Guns & Stripes as Self (archive footage)
- 2025 Elway as Self (archive footage)
- 1937 Hell Town as Dare Rudd
- 1973 The Man Behind the Star as Self
- 2026 Spiritual day in Minneapolis
- 1946 Desert Command as Tom Wayne
- 2002 Edith Head: The Paramount Years as Self (archive footage)
- 1976 Bob Hope's World of Comedy as (archive footage)
- 2026 Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas as Ethan Edwards (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2017 The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 Remembering Gene Wilder as Self (archive photo)
- 1977 Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast as Self
- 2025 Breakdown: 1975 as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 Marlene Dietrich: Home Movies as Self
- 1955 Rookie of the Year as Mike Cronin
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1962 The Lucy Show ( 1 episode ) as John Wayne
- 1962 The Beverly Hillbillies ( 1 episode ) as John Wayne (uncredited)
- 1951 I Love Lucy ( 1 episode ) as John Wayne
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host, Introduction to the Series
- 1968 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( 9 episodes ) as Self (uncredited)
- 1969 The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1954 Producers' Showcase ( 38 episodes ) as Self
- 1973 The American Film Institute Salute to ... ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1955 Casablanca ( 10 episodes )
- 1953 The Oscars ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1961 Alcoa Premiere ( 1 episode )
- 1967 Dateline: Hollywood ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Screen Director's Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mike Cronin
- 2013 Talking Pictures ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1957 Wagon Train ( 1 episode ) as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1950 The Bob Hope Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Cameo
- 1950 The Bob Hope Show ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1950 The Jack Benny Program ( 1 episode ) as John Wayne
- 1950 What's My Line? ( 1 episode ) as Self - Mystery Guest
- 1971 V.I.P. Schaukel ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2004 Battleground ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1978 Western von gestern ( 1 episode ) as John Wyatt aka John Allen (archive footage)
- 1978 Western von gestern ( 1 episode ) as John Wyatt aka John Allen
- 1978 Western von gestern ( 1 episode ) as Stony Brooke (archive footage)
- 1972 Maude ( 1 episode ) as Himself
- 1956 Cinépanorama ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1963 Hollywood and the Stars ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1957 Tonight Starring Jack Paar ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1951 The Red Skelton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self (uncredited)
- 1951 The Red Skelton Show ( 2 episodes ) as John Wayne
- 1951 The Red Skelton Show ( 1 episode ) as Rooster Cogburn
- 1973 The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1987 Sacrée soirée ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
- 1968 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1980 Hollywood ( 1 episode ) as Self
