John Wayne
Gender: Male
Born: 26th May 1907
Died: 11th June 1979
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Colgate Comedy Hour, Alcoa Premiere, Wagon Train, Screen Director's Playhouse, The Beverly Hillbillies, Raquel!, The American West of John Ford, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Dateline: Hollywood, V.I.P. Schaukel, Directed by John Ford, The Red Skelton Show, The Lucy Show, What's My Line?, Wide Wide World, Screen Director's Playhouse, The Dean Martin Show, The Jack Benny Program, The Ed Sullivan Show, Producers' Showcase, Climax!, Gunsmoke, Casablanca (1955), The Hollywood Handicap, This Is Your Life, Running Hollywood, The Dick Powell Show
Movies: Brannigan, Chisum, El Dorado, Flying Leathernecks, Fort Apache, How the West Was Won, In Harm's Way, Island in the Sky, McLintock!, North to Alaska, Red River, Red River Range, Rio Bravo, Rio Grande, Rio Lobo, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Stagecoach, The Alamo, The Comancheros, The Conqueror, The Green Berets, The High and the Mighty, The Horse Soldiers, The Long Voyage Home, The Longest Day, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Quiet Man, The Searchers, The Shootist, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Three Musketeers, The War Wagon, They Were Expendable, Three Godfathers, True Grit, The Spoilers, The Lawless Nineties, The Star Packer, Paradise Canyon, Operation Pacific, Girls Demand Excitement, Tall in the Saddle, The Shadow of the Eagle, Blue Steel, Flying Tigers, The Lawless Frontier, The Big Trail, Legend of the Lost, The Wings of Eagles, The Trail Beyond, California Straight Ahead, The Train Robbers, Reap the Wild Wind, Arizona, The Hurricane Express, Reunion in France, Allegheny Uprising, Hangman's House, The Drop Kick, Donovan's Reef, Cahill U.S. Marshal, The Fighting Kentuckian, Circus World, Two-Fisted Law, Ride Him, Cowboy, 'Neath the Arizona Skies, In Old Oklahoma, Big Jake, The Undefeated, Blood Alley, Hatari!, The Black Watch, McQ, Without Reservations, Angel and the Badman, The Barbarian and the Geisha, Hondo, The Man from Utah, Sands of Iwo Jima, The Desert Trail, Three Girls Lost, The Sea Chase, The Lucky Texan, Riders of Destiny, Dark Command, Lawless Range, The Cowboys, Hellfighters, The Fighting Seabees, Big Jim McLain, Wake of the Red Witch, Texas Cyclone, Flame of Barbary Coast, Rooster Cogburn, Brown of Harvard, Back to Bataan, In Old California, Texas Terror, Range Feud, Lady and Gent
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, and was named the all-time top money-making star. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.
Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa but his family relocated to the greater Los Angeles area when he was four years old. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to USC as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he mostly appeared in small bit parts. His acting breakthrough came in 1939 with John Ford's Stagecoach, making him an instant star. Wayne would go on to star in 142 pictures, primarily typecast in Western films.
Among his best known films are The Quiet Man (1952), which follows him as an Irish-American boxer and his love affair with a fiery spinster played by Maureen O'Hara; The Searchers (1956), in which he plays a Civil War veteran who seeks
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