John Wayne
Acting
🎂 1907-05-26
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison), 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.
Cast credits(299)
Self
1962
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
1957
Self (archive footage)
1961
Self
1961
Self - Nominee
1944
John Wayne
1951
John Wayne
1962
Self - Host, Introduction to the Series
1955
John Wayne (uncredited)
1962
Self (uncredited)
1951
Self
1951
Self - Rooster Cogburn
1951
Self (uncredited)
1968
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1968
Self
1950
Self
1948
Self
1953
Self (archive footage)
1987
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Self
1962
Self (archive footage)
1974
Himself
1972
John Wayne
1950
Self - Cameo
1950
Self
1950
Ole Olsen
1940
Mike Cronin
1955
Self
1956
Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
1969
Self
1973
Self (archive footage)
2013
John Chance
1959
Tom Doniphon
1962
Self
1957
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
1962
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
1962
Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan
1945
Col. Davy Crockett
1960
Self
1971
John Chisum
1970
The Ringo Kid
1939
Cole Thornton
1966
Colonel John Henry Thomas
1969
Self (archive footage)
2024
Ethan Edwards
1956
Centurion at crucifixion
1965
Self
1969
Self
1973
Thomas Dunson
1948
Self (archive footage)
2014
Capt. Kirby York
1948
George Washington McLintock
1963
Sean Thornton
1952
John Breen
1949
John Elder
1965
J.D. Cahill
1973
Hondo Lane
1953
Col John Marlowe
1959
John Bishop
1933
Jacob McCandles
1971
Sam McCord
1960
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke
1950
1961
Sgt. John M. Stryker
1950
Taw Jackson
1967
Col. Cord McNally
1970
Sean Mercer
1962
Captain John Ashley
1936
John
1933
Jake Cutter
1961
Wil Andersen
1972
Duke E. Gifford
1951
Colonel Mike Kirby
1968
Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles
1949
Capt. Rockwell Torrey
1965
John Tobin
1934
Self
1954
Lt. Jim Brannigan
1975
John Wyatt aka John Allen (archive footage)
1978
John Wyatt aka John Allen
1978
Stony Brooke (archive footage)
1978
Self
1980
Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
1975
Flood Extra (uncredited)
1928
Chance Buckman
1968
John Jones
1935
Jimmy McCoy Jr.
1933
J.B. Books
1976
Jim Gordon
1942
Dan Roman
1954
Quirt Evans
1947
Lane
1973
Frank W. 'Spig' Wead
1957
Rod Drew
1934
Jim McLain
1952
Temujin, later Genghis Khan
1956
Self (archive)
2019
Johnny Hanson
1937
John Wyatt
1935
John Trent
1933
Col. Jim Shannon
1957
Stephen Aloysius Williams
1953
Michael "Guns" Donovan
1963
Gen. Mike Randolph
1966
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Extra (uncredited)
1930
John Weston
1934
John Brant
1933
Breck Coleman
1930
Self (archive footage)
2022
Capt. Tom Wilder
1955
John Devlin
1945
Self
1973
Pat Glendon
1936
Self (archive footage)
1975
Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan
1944
Jim Smith
1939
(archive footage)
1982
Bob Seton
1940
Stony Brooke
1938
1932
John Carruthers
1934
Self - Host
1970
1930
The Air Pilot
1932
(archive footage)
1961
Joe January
1957
Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby
1951
Young Matt Matthews
1941
Captain Dooley
1953
John Clayborn
1936
Self (archive footage)
2010
Johnny Munroe
1947
Self
1961
Duke Fergus
1945
John Scott / John Jones
1935
Self
1944
McQ
1974
Lynn Hollister
1941
Pete Donahue (as Duke Morrison)
1929
John Tobin
1934
Glennister
1942
Self (archive footage)
1968
John Mason
1935
Colonel Joseph Madden
1945
Jerry Mason
1934
Himself (uncredited)
1972
Rocklin
1944
Randy
1934
Self (archive footage)
1991
Matt Masters
1964
Self (archive footage)
1988
Captain Karl Ehrlich
1955
Townsend Harris
1958
Buzz Kinney
1932
John Middleton
1935
Captain Jack Stuart
1942
Himself
2000
Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower
1948
Self (archive footage)
2024
1990
Duke Hudkins
1943
Chris Morrell
1934
U.S. Marshal John Travers
1934
Self
1970
Pat Talbot
1942
Stony Brooke
1939
Jerry Mason
1934
John Drury
1932
John Reynolds
1941
1927
Himself
1970
Himself
1965
Lumberjack (uncredited)
1930
Capt. Ralls
1948
Gordon Wales
1931
John Carruthers
1934
Dick Wallace
1933
Self (archive footage)
2009
Jackson Morgan
1942
Self - Roaster (archive footage)
1998
Daniel F Somers
1943
Tom Wayne
1946
1929
Dusty Rhodes
1931
Dan
1940
Self (archive footage)
2013
Davy Crockett
1992
Self (archive footage)
1976
(archive footage)
1987
Randy Bowers
1934
Tom Craig
1942
Self (1969)
1971
Reginald Thorpe as a corpse
1931
1960
John Blair
1936
Stony Brooke
1938
Rusty Thomas
1946
Self
2012
Football Player / Extra in Stands
1927
John Martin
1935
Singin' Sandy Saunders
1933
John Higgins
1935
1955
1933
Lt. Bob Denton
1931
Marine Sergeant
1962
Guard (uncredited)
1926
Yale LIneback Player
1926
Stony Brooke
1938
John Dawson
1935
Self (archive footage)
1997
John Wyatt
1935
Self
1976
Himself
1993
John Holmes
1933
Self (Archive Footage)
2023
Self (archive footage)
1973
Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
1951
Himself
1998
Himself
2016
Deputy Sheriff John Steele
1932
Smith
1933
John Phillips
1940
Capt John Delmont
1936
Craig McCoy
1932
Narrator
1967
1927
Emcee
1932
Black Watch Soldier (uncredited)
1929
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham
1942
Himself/Narrator
1976
Self (archive footage)
1991
Stony Brooke
1939
John Wyatt
1935
Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
1934
1993
Self (archive footage)
1976
Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
2019
Self (archive footage)
1999
Self (archive footage)
1993
John Wyatt
1935
Host
1964
Self (archive footage)
2004
1933
Rod Drew
1934
(archive footage)
1975
Host
1977
Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback
1928
John Mason
1935
Steve Pickett
1932
Extra (uncredited)
1926
John Weston
1934
Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
1934
U.S. Marshal John Travers
1934
self
1977
Self
1953
Peter Brooks
1931
Actor in a Movie (uncredited)
1958
Self (archive footage)
2010
Stony Brooke
1938
1928
Jerry Mason
1976
John Mason
1932
Self - Narrator
1971
Extra
1929
Self
1953
George Abitbol (archive footage)
1993
Self - Host
1966
Himself (archive footage)
2019
Self
1970
Himself
1993
(archive footage)
1984
Man on Stool
1928
Duke
1932
John Tipton
1936
Dare Rudd
1937
Duke Slade
1937
Stony Brooke
1939
Biff Smith
1937
Self (archive footage)
1963
Bob Randall
1936
1976
Self (archive footage)
2001
Stony Brooke
1939
2001
Clint Turner
1931
Lt. Tom Wayne
1933
(archive footage)
1991
Self
1978
Opposing Football Player
1927
Bob Adams
1937
Self (archive footage)
2013
John Blair
1936
1967
Radioman on Surface (uncredited)
1930
Self (archive footage)
1971
Self
1958
