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.
266 movies · 36 shows
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026·0.0
Spiritual day in Minneapolis
2026·0.0
Elway
2025·6.6
Breakdown: 1975
2025·6.8
Naughty America: Guns & Stripes
2025·0.0
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024·5.3
Atomic People
2024·8.4
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024·7.2
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
2023·0.0
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022·7.3
John Ford and Throwing
2022·0.0
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
2019·0.0
John Wayne - America at All Costs
2019·6.6
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
2019·5.9
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017·4.5
John Wayne on Film
2016·9.5
Dictator: One Crazy Job
2013·6.5
John Ford & Monument Valley
2013·1.0
Christmas Around the World with Perry Como
2012·0.0
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010·6.7
Nuke 'Em, Duke
2010·0.0
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009·7.5
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002·7.7
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
2001·7.0
The Duke at Fox
2001·0.0
John Wayne-A Life on Film
2000·0.0
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999·0.0
JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND
1998·4.8
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1998·6.5
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997·5.1
La Classe américaine
1993·7.6
Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star
1993·0.0
The John Wayne Story - The Later Years
1993·0.0
The John Wayne Story: The Early Years
1993·3.5
The Making of 'Rio Grande'
1993·5.0
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
1992·8.3
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991·6.5
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
1991·6.0
Movie Tough Guys
1991·10.0
John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies
1990·0.0
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988·6.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984·9.0
Showbiz Goes to War
1982·10.0
Perry Como's Early American Christmas
1978·0.0
Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast
1977·0.0
This Little Bullet
1977·0.0
That's Action
1977·8.0
Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special
1976·0.0
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
1976·7.3
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976·0.0
The Shootist
1976·7.1
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976·8.5
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend
1976·7.7
It's Showtime
1976·7.5
Hooray for Hollywood
1976·8.0
Rooster Cogburn
1975·6.5
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
1975·0.0
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975·6.3
Brannigan
1975·6.0
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974·7.2
McQ
1974·6.1
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973·6.1
The Man Behind the Star
1973·0.0
Wayne Train
1973·0.0
The Train Robbers
1973·6.3
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973·6.8
Cancel My Reservation
1972·6.5
The Cowboys
1972·7.1
The American West of John Ford
1971·6.4
Directed by John Ford
1971·7.0
Big Jake
1971·6.8
The Selling of the Pentagon
1971·8.0
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
1970·0.0
Chisum
1970·6.7
Raquel!
1970·10.0
Rio Lobo
1970·6.5
No Substitute for Victory
1970·5.0
Swing Out, Sweet Land
1970·5.7
The Undefeated
1969·6.3
True Grit
1969·7.3
Hellfighters
1968·6.3
The Green Berets
1968·5.7
The Movie Orgy
1968·6.7
The War Wagon
1967·6.8
A Nation Builds Under Fire
1967·7.0
El Dorado
1966·7.4
The Victory Squad
1966·4.0
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966·6.4
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965·7.0
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965·6.4
In Harm's Way
1965·6.6
The Making of A Movie
1965·0.0
Circus World
1964·6.2
Choice
1964·1.0
McLintock!
1963·6.6
Donovan's Reef
1963·6.2
How the West Was Won
1962·7.0
Flashing Spikes
1962·6.8
The Longest Day
1962·7.6
Hatari!
1962·6.8
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962·7.8
The Comancheros
1961·6.7
The Challenge of Ideas
1961·5.3
The 10 from Texas
1961·9.0
The Colter Craven Story
1960·0.0
North to Alaska
1960·6.5
The Alamo
1960·7.1
The Horse Soldiers
1959·6.9
Rio Bravo
1959·7.8
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958·6.0
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958·0.0
I Married a Woman
1958·6.4
Legend of the Lost
1957·6.2
Jet Pilot
1957·5.5
The Wings of Eagles
1957·6.3
The Searchers
1956·7.7
The Conqueror
1956·3.6
Blood Alley
1955·6.0
The Sea Chase
1955·6.3
The High and the Mighty
1954·5.9
Hondo
1953·6.5
Three Lives
1953·7.5
Island in the Sky
1953·6.2
Trouble Along the Way
1953·6.1
You're the Star
1953·0.0
Big Jim McLain
1952·5.0
The Quiet Man
1952·7.3
Flying Leathernecks
1951·5.8
The Screen Director
1951·7.0
Operation Pacific
1951·6.1
Rio Grande
1950·6.8
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950·6.4
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949·6.9
The Fighting Kentuckian
1949·5.9
3 Godfathers
1948·6.8
Wake of the Red Witch
1948·5.8
Red River
1948·7.3
Fort Apache
1948·7.0
Tycoon
1947·5.6
Angel and the Badman
1947·6.4
Desert Command
1946·4.2
Without Reservations
1946·6.2
Dakota
1945·5.2
They Were Expendable
1945·6.5
Back to Bataan
1945·6.1
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945·5.5
Tall in the Saddle
1944·6.6
Memo for Joe
1944·8.0
The Fighting Seabees
1944·6.2
In Old Oklahoma
1943·6.2
A Lady Takes a Chance
1943·5.8
Reunion in France
1942·6.4
Pittsburgh
1942·6.4
Flying Tigers
1942·6.2
The Spoilers
1942·6.2
In Old California
1942·5.3
Reap the Wild Wind
1942·6.4
Lady for a Night
1942·5.5
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941·6.6
Lady from Louisiana
1941·5.4
A Man Betrayed
1941·5.6
The Long Voyage Home
1940·6.6
Seven Sinners
1940·5.9
Three Faces West
1940·5.7
Dark Command
1940·6.4
Allegheny Uprising
1939·5.9
New Frontier
1939·5.7
Wyoming Outlaw
1939·5.8
Three Texas Steers
1939·5.0
The Night Riders
1939·5.8
Stagecoach
1939·7.6
Red River Range
1938·5.2
Santa Fe Stampede
1938·5.6
Overland Stage Raiders
1938·5.2
Pals of the Saddle
1938·5.7
Born to the West
1937·4.8
Hell Town
1937·0.0
Adventure's End
1937·5.5
Idol of the Crowds
1937·5.1
I Cover the War!
1937·5.1
California Straight Ahead
1937·5.8
Conflict
1936·5.5
Sea Spoilers
1936·5.0
Winds of the Wasteland
1936·5.2
The Stagecoach Race
1936·0.0
The Lonely Trail
1936·4.8
King of the Pecos
1936·5.6
The Lawless Nineties
1936·5.5
The Oregon Trail
1936·7.0
Lawless Range
1935·4.3
The New Frontier
1935·4.9
Texas Terror
1935·4.8
Guns Along The Trail
1935·3.0
Westward Ho
1935·5.4
Cowboy G-Man
1935·0.0
Paradise Canyon
1935·4.8
The Dawn Rider
1935·4.7
Avenging Angel
1935·4.0
On the Run
1935·0.0
The Desert Trail
1935·4.6
Rainbow Valley
1935·4.9
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934·4.8
The Lawless Frontier
1934·4.8
Vengence is Mine
1934·0.0
The Trail Beyond
1934·4.8
Klondike Gold
1934·0.0
The Star Packer
1934·4.5
The Drifter
1934·0.0
Randy Rides Alone
1934·5.0
Bandits of the Badlands
1934·0.0
The Shadow Gang
1934·0.0
Next Of Kin
1934·0.0
The Man from Utah
1934·4.8
Rodeo Rocketeers
1934·0.0
Blue Steel
1934·4.8
West of the Divide
1934·5.2
The Lucky Texan
1934·5.0
Claim Jumpers
1934·0.0
Sagebrush Trail
1933·5.2
Fugitive
1933·0.0
College Coach
1933·4.6
Riders of Destiny
1933·5.3
The Man from Monterey
1933·4.8
Baby Face
1933·7.2
His Private Secretary
1933·5.1
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933·6.2
Somewhere in Sonora
1933·5.1
Central Airport
1933·6.0
The Three Musketeers
1933·5.7
The Telegraph Trail
1933·4.7
Haunted Gold
1932·5.1
The Big Stampede
1932·5.1
Ride Him, Cowboy
1932·4.9
The Hollywood Handicap
1932·7.0
The Hurricane Express
1932·5.4
Lady and Gent
1932·5.8
Two-Fisted Law
1932·4.8
Texas Cyclone
1932·4.5
The Shadow of the Eagle
1932·5.5
Running Hollywood
1932·9.0
The Deceiver
1931·8.0
The Range Feud
1931·5.2
Maker of Men
1931·7.0
Arizona
1931·4.8
Three Girls Lost
1931·8.0
Girls Demand Excitement
1931·10.0
The Big Trail
1930·6.7
Cheer Up and Smile
1930·10.0
Rough Romance
1930·5.8
Born Reckless
1930·5.8
Men Without Women
1930·6.4
Salute
1929·6.0
Words and Music
1929·10.0
The Black Watch
1929·5.9
Speakeasy
1929·6.0
Noah's Ark
1928·6.4
A Home Made Man
1928·7.0
Hangman's House
1928·6.6
Four Sons
1928·7.3
Mother Machree
1927·6.6
The Drop Kick
1927·5.3
Annie Laurie
1927·6.8
The Draw-Back
1927·7.3
The Great K&A Train Robbery
1926·5.8
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926·7.4
Brown of Harvard
1926·5.5