John Wayne

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1907-05-26

Deathday 1979-06-11 (72 years old)

Place of Birth Winterset, Iowa, USA

Also Known As Duke, The Duke, ジョン・ウェイン, Michael Morris

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

Actor

2024
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

as Self (archive footage)

2023
Sly

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2023
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons

as Self (Archive Footage)

2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

as Self (archive footage)

2019
John Wayne - America at All Costs

as Himself (archive footage)

2019
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

2016
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Dictator: One Crazy Job

as Self (archive footage)

2013
John Ford & Monument Valley

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Talking Pictures

as Self (archive footage)

2010
2010
Nuke 'Em, Duke

as Self (archive footage)

2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)

2004
Battleground

as Self (archive footage)

2001
The Duke at Fox

as Self (archive footage)

1999
Television: The First Fifty Years

as Self (archive footage)

1998
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

as Self - Roaster (archive footage)

1998
Parkinson

as Self (archive footage)

1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

as Self (archive footage)

1993
La Classe américaine

as George Abitbol (archive footage)

1993
The Making of 'Rio Grande'

as Self (archive footage)

1992
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

as Davy Crockett

1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)

1991
Movie Tough Guys

as Self (archive footage)

1987
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

as (archive footage)

1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

1982
Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

1980
Hollywood

as Self

1978
Western von gestern

as John Wyatt aka John Allen (archive footage)

1978
Western von gestern

as John Wyatt aka John Allen

1978
Western von gestern

as Stony Brooke (archive footage)

1977
1977
1976
The Shootist

as J.B. Books

1976
1976
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend

as Himself/Narrator

1976
It's Showtime

as Self (archive footage)

1975
Rooster Cogburn

as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn

1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1975
Brannigan

as Lt. Jim Brannigan

1974
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1974
McQ

as McQ

1974
Spécial cinéma

as Self (archive footage)

1973
Wayne Train

as Self

1973
1973
1972
The Cowboys

as Wil Andersen

1972
Maude

as Himself

1971
1971
Directed by John Ford

as Self (1969)

1971
Big Jake

as Jacob McCandles

1971
The Selling of the Pentagon

as Self (archive footage)

1971
1970
Chisum

as John Chisum

1970
Raquel!

as Self

1970
Rio Lobo

as Colonel Cord McNally

1970
Swing Out, Sweet Land

as Self - Host

1969
The Undefeated

as Colonel John Henry Thomas

1969
True Grit

as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn

1968
Hellfighters

as Chance Buckman

1968
The Green Berets

as Colonel Mike Kirby

1968
The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)

1967
The War Wagon

as Taw Jackson

1967
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self (uncredited)

1966
El Dorado

as Cole Thornton

1966
The Victory Squad

as Himself - Host

1966
Cast a Giant Shadow

as Gen. Mike Randolph

1965
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told

as Centurion at crucifixion

1965
In Harm's Way

as Capt. Rockwell Torrey

1964
Circus World

as Matt Masters

1964
Choice

as Host

1963
McLintock!

as George Washington McLintock

1963
Donovan's Reef

as Michael "Guns" Donovan

1963
Hollywood and the Stars

as Self (archive footage)

1962
How the West Was Won

as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

1962
Flashing Spikes

as Marine Sergeant

1962
The Longest Day

as Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort

1962
Hatari!

as Sean Mercer

1962
The Lucy Show

as John Wayne

1962
The Beverly Hillbillies

as John Wayne (uncredited)

1961
The Comancheros

as Jake Cutter

1961
The 10 from Texas

as (archive footage)

1961
The Mike Douglas Show

as Self (archive footage)

1960
North to Alaska

as Sam McCord

1960
The Alamo

as Col. Davy Crockett

1959
The Horse Soldiers

as Col John Marlowe

1959
Rio Bravo

as John Chance

1958
The Barbarian and the Geisha

as Townsend Harris

1958
I Married a Woman

as Actor in a Movie (uncredited)

1957
Legend of the Lost

as Joe January

1957
Jet Pilot

as Col. Jim Shannon

1957
The Wings of Eagles

as Frank W. 'Spig' Wead

1957
Wagon Train

as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

1956
The Searchers

as Ethan Edwards

1956
The Conqueror

as Temujin, later Genghis Khan

1956
1955
Rookie of the Year

as Mike Cronin

1955
Blood Alley

as Capt. Tom Wilder

1955
The Sea Chase

as Captain Karl Ehrlich

1955
1955
Gunsmoke

as Self - Host, Introduction to the Series

1954
1953
Hondo

as Hondo Lane

1953
Three Lives

as Self

1953
Island in the Sky

as Captain Dooley

1953
Trouble Along the Way

as Stephen Aloysius Williams

1953
1953
The Oscars

as Self

1952
Big Jim McLain

as Jim McLain

1952
The Quiet Man

as Sean Thornton

1951
Flying Leathernecks

as Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby

1951
The Screen Director

as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

1951
Operation Pacific

as Duke E. Gifford

1951
I Love Lucy

as John Wayne

1951
The Red Skelton Show

as Self (uncredited)

1951
The Red Skelton Show

as Self - Rooster Cogburn

1950
Rio Grande

as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke

1950
Sands of Iwo Jima

as Sgt. John M. Stryker

1950
1950
The Bob Hope Show

as Self - Cameo

1950
1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1949
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

as Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles

1949
1948
3 Godfathers

as Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower

1948
Wake of the Red Witch

as Capt. Ralls

1948
Red River

as Thomas Dunson

1948
Fort Apache

as Capt. Kirby York

1948
The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self (archive footage)

1947
Tycoon

as Johnny Munroe

1947
Angel and the Badman

as Quirt Evans

1946
Desert Command

as Tom Wayne

1946
Without Reservations

as Rusty Thomas

1945
Dakota

as John Devlin

1945
They Were Expendable

as Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan

1945
Back to Bataan

as Colonel Joseph Madden

1945
Flame of Barbary Coast

as Duke Fergus

1944
1944
Memo for Joe

as Self

1944
The Fighting Seabees

as Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan

1943
In Old Oklahoma

as Daniel F Somers

1943
A Lady Takes a Chance

as Duke Hudkins

1942
Reunion in France

as Pat Talbot

1942
Pittsburgh

as Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham

1942
Flying Tigers

as Jim Gordon

1942
The Spoilers

as Glennister

1942
In Old California

as Tom Craig

1942
Reap the Wild Wind

as Captain Jack Stuart

1942
Lady for a Night

as Jackson Morgan

1941
The Shepherd of the Hills

as Young Matt Matthews

1941
Lady from Louisiana

as John Reynolds

1941
A Man Betrayed

as Lynn Hollister

1940
1940
1940
Three Faces West

as John Phillips

1940
Dark Command

as Bob Seton

1939
Allegheny Uprising

as Jim Smith

1939
New Frontier

as Stony Brooke

1939
Wyoming Outlaw

as Stony Brooke

1939
Three Texas Steers

as Stony Brooke

1939
The Night Riders

as Stony Brooke

1939
Stagecoach

as The Ringo Kid

1938
Red River Range

as Stony Brooke

1938
Santa Fe Stampede

as Stony Brooke

1938
Overland Stage Raiders

as Stony Brooke

1938
Pals of the Saddle

as Stony Brooke

1937
Born to the West

as Dare Rudd

1937
Adventure's End

as Duke Slade

1937
Idol of the Crowds

as Johnny Hanson

1937
I Cover the War!

as Bob Adams

1937
1936
Conflict

as Pat Glendon

1936
Sea Spoilers

as Bob Randall

1936
1936
The Stagecoach Race

as John Blair

1936
The Lonely Trail

as Captain John Ashley

1936
King of the Pecos

as John Clayborn

1936
The Lawless Nineties

as John Tipton

1936
The Oregon Trail

as Capt John Delmont

1935
Lawless Range

as John Middleton

1935
The New Frontier

as John Dawson

1935
Texas Terror

as John Higgins

1935
Guns Along The Trail

as John Wyatt

1935
Westward Ho

as John Wyatt

1935
Paradise Canyon

as John Wyatt

1935
The Dawn Rider

as John Mason

1935
Avenging Angel

as John Mason

1935
The Desert Trail

as John Scott / John Jones

1935
Rainbow Valley

as John Martin

1934
'Neath the Arizona Skies

as Chris Morrell

1934
The Lawless Frontier

as John Tobin

1934
The Trail Beyond

as Rod Drew

1934
The Star Packer

as U.S. Marshal John Travers

1934
Randy Rides Alone

as Randy Bowers

1934
Bandits of the Badlands

as John Carruthers

1934
The Shadow Gang

as U.S. Marshal John Travers

1934
Next Of Kin

as Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns

1934
The Man from Utah

as John Weston

1934
Blue Steel

as John Carruthers

1934
West of the Divide

as Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns

1934
The Lucky Texan

as Jerry Mason

1934
Claim Jumpers

as Jerry Mason

1933
Sagebrush Trail

as John Brant

1933
Riders of Destiny

as Singin' Sandy Saunders

1933
The Man from Monterey

as John Holmes

1933
Baby Face

as Jimmy McCoy Jr.

1933
His Private Secretary

as Dick Wallace

1933
Somewhere in Sonora

as John Bishop

1933
The Three Musketeers

as Lt. Tom Wayne

1933
The Telegraph Trail

as John Trent

1932
Haunted Gold

as John Mason

1932
The Big Stampede

as Deputy Sheriff John Steele

1932
Ride Him, Cowboy

as John Drury

1932
The Hurricane Express

as The Air Pilot

1932
Lady and Gent

as Buzz Kinney

1932
1932
Texas Cyclone

as Steve Pickett

1932
1932
1931
The Range Feud

as Clint Turner

1931
Maker of Men

as Dusty Rhodes

1931
Arizona

as Lt. Bob Denton

1931
Three Girls Lost

as Gordon Wales

1931
Girls Demand Excitement

as Peter Brooks

1930
The Big Trail

as Breck Coleman

1930
Rough Romance

as Lumberjack (uncredited)

1930
Born Reckless

as Extra (uncredited)

1930
Men Without Women

as Radioman on Surface (uncredited)

1929
1929
Words and Music

as Pete Donahue

1929
The Black Watch

as Black Watch Soldier (uncredited)

1929
Speakeasy

as Extra

1928
Noah's Ark

as Flood Extra (uncredited)

1928
A Home Made Man

as Man on Stool

1928
Hangman's House

as Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback

1927
The Drop Kick

as Football Player / Extra in Stands

1927
The Draw-Back

as Opposing Football Player

1926
The Great K&A Train Robbery

as Extra (uncredited)

1926
Bardelys the Magnificent

as Guard (uncredited)

1926
Brown of Harvard

as Yale Football Player (uncredited)

Producer

1974
McQ

as Executive Producer

1973
The Train Robbers

as Executive Producer

1971
Big Jake

as Executive Producer

1967
The War Wagon

as Executive Producer

1960
The Alamo

as Producer

1956
7 Men from Now

as Producer

1956
Good-bye, My Lady

as Producer

1955
Blood Alley

as Producer

1954
1954
Track of the Cat

as Producer

1954
Ring of Fear

as Producer

1953
Hondo

as Producer

1953
Island in the Sky

as Producer

1951
1950
1949
1947

Director

1968
The Green Berets

as Director

1960
The Alamo

as Director

Crew

1928
Four Sons

as Property Master

1927
Mother Machree

as Property Master

Art

1930
Rough Romance

as Props