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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.…
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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.
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2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Movie Ethan Edwards (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2026
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2025
Elway
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Breakdown: 1975
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Naughty America: Guns & Stripes
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Atomic People
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
Movie Self (archive photo)
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2023
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Movie Self (Archive Footage)
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2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
John Ford and Throwing
Movie
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2019
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
Movie Self (archive)
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2019
John Wayne - America at All Costs
Movie Himself (archive footage)
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2019
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Movie Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
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2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Movie Self (archive)
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2016
John Wayne on Film
Movie Himself
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2013
Dictator: One Crazy Job
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
John Ford & Monument Valley
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
Talking Pictures
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2012
Christmas Around the World with Perry Como
Movie Self
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2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
Nuke 'Em, Duke
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
Battleground
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2002
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2001
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2001
The Duke at Fox
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
John Wayne-A Life on Film
Movie Himself
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1999
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1998
JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND
Movie Himself
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1998
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Movie Self - Roaster (archive footage)
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1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1993
La Classe américaine
Movie George Abitbol (archive footage)
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1993
Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star
Movie Himself
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1993
The John Wayne Story - The Later Years
Movie Himself
- 1993
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1993
The Making of 'Rio Grande'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1992
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Movie Davy Crockett
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1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1991
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
Movie (archive footage)
