John Wayne
Age: 72 | From: Winterset, Iowa, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1907-05-26 23:20:12
Death: 1979-06-11 23:20:12
Aliases: Duke , The Duke , ジョン・ウェイン
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Winterset, Iowa, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 190
TV Involvements: 4
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Searchers
(1956) Ethan Edwards
How the West Was Won
(1962) William Sherman
The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965) Centurion at crucifixion
Stagecoach
(1939) The Ringo Kid
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962) Tom Doniphon
El Dorado
(1966) Cole Thornton
The Longest Day
(1962) Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
The Sons of Katie Elder
(1965) John ElderActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Himself - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage) | ||
| 2017 | Various Roles (archive footage) | |
| 2016 | Himself | |
| 2014 | N/A | |
| 2013 | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Himself - Archive footage | ||
| 2010 | Himself (archive footage) | |
| 2009 | N/A | |
| Himself | ||
| 2001 | The Shootist (1976) film clips | |
| 2000 | Himself | |
| 1998 | Himself | |
| N/A | ||
| 1997 | Himself (archive footage) | |
| 1993 | George Abitbol (archive footage) | |
| Himself | ||
| Himself | ||
| N/A | ||
| Himself (archival footage) | ||
| 1992 | Davy Crockett | |
| 1991 | Himself (archive footage) | |
| 1990 | N/A | |
| 1978 | Himself | |
| 1977 | self | |
| 1976 | John Bernard Books | |
| Jerry Mason | ||
| Himself/Narrator | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1975 | Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn | |
| (archive footage) | ||
| Lt. Jim Brannigan | ||
| 1974 | Det. Lt. Lon McQ | |
| 1973 | J.D. Cahill | |
| N/A | ||
| Himself | ||
| Lane | ||
| 1972 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Wil Andersen | ||
| 1971 | Himself | |
| Himself (uncredited) | ||
| Jacob McCandles | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1970 | John Simpson Chisum | |
| Himself | ||
| Colonel Cord McNally | ||
| Himself | ||
| Himself | ||
| 1969 | Colonel John Henry Thomas | |
| Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1968 | Chance Buckman | |
| Colonel Mike Kirby | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1967 | Taw Jackson | |
| N/A | ||
| 1966 | Cole Thornton | |
| Himself - Host | ||
| Gen. Mike Randolph | ||
| 1965 | John Elder | |
| Capt. Rockwell Torrey | ||
| Centurion at crucifixion | ||
| 1964 | Matt Masters | |
| 1963 | George Washington McLintock | |
| Himself (archive footage) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Michael "Guns" Donovan | ||
| 1962 | Marine Sergeant | |
| N/A | ||
| William Sherman | ||
| N/A | ||
| Col. Benjamin Vandervoort | ||
| Sean Mercer | ||
| Tom Doniphon | ||
| 1961 | Jake Cutter | |
| N/A | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1960 | Sam McCord | |
| Col. Davy Crockett | ||
| 1959 | Col John Marlowe | |
| John Chance | ||
| 1958 | Townsend Harris | |
| Leonard - Screen Husband (uncredited) | ||
| 1957 | Joe January | |
| Col. Jim Shannon | ||
| Frank W. 'Spig' Wead | ||
| 1956 | Ethan Edwards | |
| Temujin, later Genghis Khan | ||
| 1955 | Mike Cronin | |
| Mike Cronin | ||
| Capt. Tom Wilder | ||
| N/A | ||
| Himself, Introduction to the Series | ||
| Captain Karl Ehrlich | ||
| 1954 | N/A | |
| Dan Roman | ||
| 1953 | Hondo Lane | |
| Captain Dooley | ||
| Stephen Aloysius Williams | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1952 | N/A | |
| Jim McLain | ||
| Sean Thornton | ||
| 1951 | N/A | |
| Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby | ||
| N/A | ||
| Duke E. Gifford | ||
| 1950 | Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke | |
| N/A | ||
| 1949 | Sgt John M Stryker | |
| Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles | ||
| John Breen | ||
| 1948 | Robert Marmaduke Hightower | |
| Capt. Ralls | ||
| Thomas Dunson | ||
| N/A | ||
| Capt. Kirby York | ||
| 1947 | Johnny Munroe | |
| Quirt Evans | ||
| 1946 | Tom Wayne | |
| Rusty Thomas | ||
| 1945 | John Devlin | |
| Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan | ||
| Colonel Joseph Madden | ||
| Duke Fergus | ||
| 1944 | Rocklin | |
| N/A | ||
| Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan | ||
| 1943 | Daniel F Somers | |
| Duke Hudkins | ||
| 1942 | Pat Talbot | |
| Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham | ||
| Jim Gordon | ||
| Roy Glennister | ||
| Tom Craig | ||
| Captain Jack Stuart | ||
| Jackson Morgan | ||
| 1941 | Young Matt | |
| John Reynolds | ||
| Lynn Hollister | ||
| 1940 | Ole Olsen | |
| Lieutenant Dan Brent | ||
| John Phillips | ||
| Bob Seton | ||
| 1939 | Jim Smith | |
| Stony Brooke | ||
| Stony Brooke | ||
| Stony Brooke | ||
| Stony Brooke | ||
| The Ringo Kid | ||
| 1938 | Stony Brooke | |
| Stony Brooke | ||
| Stony Brooke | ||
| Stony Brooke | ||
| 1937 | Dare Rudd | |
| Duke Slade | ||
| Johnny Hanson | ||
| Bob Adams | ||
| Biff Smith | ||
| 1936 | Pat Glendon | |
| Bob Randall | ||
| John Blair | ||
| Captain John Ashley | ||
| John Clayborn | ||
| John Tipton | ||
| Capt John Delmont | ||
| 1935 | John Middleton | |
| John Dawson | ||
| John Higgins | ||
| N/A | ||
| John Wyatt | ||
| John Wyatt | ||
| John Mason | ||
| John Scott / John Jones | ||
| John Martin | ||
| 1934 | Chris Morrell | |
| John Tobin | ||
| Rod Drew | ||
| U.S. Marshal John Travers | ||
| Randy Bowers | ||
| John Weston | ||
| John Carruthers | ||
| Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns | ||
| Jerry Mason | ||
| 1933 | John Brant | |
| Student Greeting Phil (uncredited) | ||
| Singin' Sandy Saunders | ||
| John Holmes | ||
| Jimmy McCoy Jr. | ||
| Dick Wallace | ||
| Smith | ||
| John Bishop | ||
| Co-Pilot in Wreck (uncredited) | ||
| Lt. Tom Wayne | ||
| John Trent | ||
| 1932 | John Mason | |
| Deputy Sheriff John Steele | ||
| John Drury | ||
| The Air Pilot | ||
| Buzz Kinney | ||
| Duke | ||
| Steve Pickett | ||
| Craig McCoy | ||
| John Brant | ||
| 1931 | Clint Turner | |
| Dusty Rhodes | ||
| Lt. Bob Denton | ||
| Gordon Wales | ||
| Peter Brooks | ||
| 1930 | Breck Coleman | |
| Roy | ||
| Lumberjack | ||
| Extra (uncredited) | ||
| Radioman on Surface (uncredited) | ||
| 1929 | Midshipman Bill (uncredited) | |
| Pete Donahue | ||
| Flood Extra (uncredited) | ||
| 42nd Highlander (uncredited) | ||
| Extra | ||
| 1928 | Man on Stool | |
| Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback | ||
| Officer (uncredited) | ||
| 1927 | Extra (uncredited) | |
| Football Player / Extra in Stands | ||
| Extra (uncredited) | ||
| Opposing Football Player | ||
| 1926 | Extra (uncredited) | |
| Guard (uncredited) | ||
| Yale Football Player (uncredited) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Executive Producer | |
| 1971 | Executive Producer | |
| 1960 | Producer | |
| 1956 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| 1955 | Producer | |
| 1954 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| Producer | ||
| 1953 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| 1951 | Producer | |
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| 1950 | Producer | |
| 1949 | Producer | |
| 1947 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Director | |
| 1961 | Director | |
| 1960 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1928 | Property Master | |
| 1927 | Property Master | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |