John Wayne
Acting • Born 1907-05-26 – Died 1979-06-11
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.
Filmography
306 credits
Rio Bravo
Movie • 1959
Sheriff John T. Chance
Stagecoach
Movie • 1939
The Ringo Kid
Movie Tough Guys
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
Red River
Movie • 1948
Thomas Dunson
The Quiet Man
Movie • 1952
Sean Thornton
The Searchers
Movie • 1956
Ethan Edwards
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Movie • 1965
Centurion at crucifixion
The Movie Orgy
Movie • 1968
Self (archive footage)
The Alamo
Movie • 1960
Col. Davy Crockett
The Comancheros
Movie • 1961
Jake Cutter
Cahill: United States Marshal
Movie • 1973
J.D. Cahill
Hatari!
Movie • 1962
Sean Mercer
North to Alaska
Movie • 1960
Sam McCord
Hondo
Movie • 1953
Hondo Lane
The Fighting Seabees
Movie • 1944
Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan
Big Jake
Movie • 1971
Jacob McCandles
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Movie • 1962
Tom Doniphon
Angel and the Badman
Movie • 1947
Quirt Evans
The Green Berets
Movie • 1968
Colonel Mike Kirby
El Dorado
Movie • 1966
Cole Thornton
Paradise Canyon
Movie • 1935
John Wyatt
Rio Grande
Movie • 1950
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke
Riders of Destiny
Movie • 1933
Singin' Sandy Saunders
Randy Rides Alone
Movie • 1934
Randy Bowers
Texas Terror
Movie • 1935
John Higgins
The Lucky Texan
Movie • 1934
Jerry Mason
Sagebrush Trail
Movie • 1933
John Brant
The Conqueror
Movie • 1956
Temujin
How the West Was Won
Movie • 1962
William Sherman
Perry Como's Early American Christmas
Movie • 1978
Self
A Man Betrayed
Movie • 1941
Lynn Hollister
Without Reservations
Movie • 1946
Rusty Thomas
The Shootist
Movie • 1976
J.B. Books
Legend of the Lost
Movie • 1957
Joe January
The Longest Day
Movie • 1962
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
A Nation Builds Under Fire
Movie • 1967
Narrator
Hellfighters
Movie • 1968
Chance Buckman
Rio Lobo
Movie • 1970
Col. Cord McNally
McQ
Movie • 1974
McQ
The War Wagon
Movie • 1967
Taw Jackson
Brannigan
Movie • 1975
Lt. Jim Brannigan
Baby Face
Movie • 1933
Jimmy McCoy Jr.
Wayne Train
Movie • 1973
Self
Reunion in France
Movie • 1942
Pat Talbot
Winds of the Wasteland
Movie • 1936
John Blair
The Trail Beyond
Movie • 1934
Rod Drew
West of the Divide
Movie • 1934
Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
Seven Sinners
Movie • 1940
Dan
Island in the Sky
Movie • 1953
Captain Dooley
The Sea Chase
Movie • 1955
Captain Karl Ehrlich
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Movie • 1949
Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles
Dark Command
Movie • 1940
Bob Seton
The Train Robbers
Movie • 1973
Lane
Operation Pacific
Movie • 1951
Duke E. Gifford
Lady for a Night
Movie • 1942
Jackson Morgan
In Old California
Movie • 1942
Tom Craig
Trouble Along the Way
Movie • 1953
Stephen Aloysius Williams
Big Jim McLain
Movie • 1952
Jim McLain
Flame of Barbary Coast
Movie • 1945
Duke Fergus
Three Faces West
Movie • 1940
John Phillips
Wake of the Red Witch
Movie • 1948
Capt. Ralls
In Old Oklahoma
Movie • 1943
Daniel F Somers
The Shadow of the Eagle
Movie • 1932
Craig McCoy
His Private Secretary
Movie • 1933
Dick Wallace
3 Godfathers
Movie • 1948
Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower
Flying Tigers
Movie • 1942
Jim Gordon
Blood Alley
Movie • 1955
Capt. Tom Wilder
The Big Trail
Movie • 1930
Breck Coleman
Circus World
Movie • 1964
Matt Masters
The Shepherd of the Hills
Movie • 1941
Young Matt Matthews
Fort Apache
Movie • 1948
Capt. Kirby York
McLintock!
Movie • 1963
George Washington McLintock
Tall in the Saddle
Movie • 1944
Rocklin
The Fighting Kentuckian
Movie • 1949
John Breen
The Spoilers
Movie • 1942
Glennister
Allegheny Uprising
Movie • 1939
Jim Smith
Donovan's Reef
Movie • 1963
Michael "Guns" Donovan
The Cowboys
Movie • 1972
Wil Andersen
Westward Ho
Movie • 1935
John Wyatt
The Star Packer
Movie • 1934
U.S. Marshal John Travers
Pittsburgh
Movie • 1942
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham
In Harm's Way
Movie • 1965
Capt. Rockwell Torrey
La Classe américaine
Movie • 1993
George Abitbol (archive footage)
Reap the Wild Wind
Movie • 1942
Captain Jack Stuart
The Sons of Katie Elder
Movie • 1965
John Elder
The Hurricane Express
Movie • 1932
The Air Pilot
Cancel My Reservation
Movie • 1972
Himself (uncredited)
I Married a Woman
Movie • 1958
Actor in a Movie (uncredited)
College Coach
Movie • 1933
Football player (uncredited)
Central Airport
Movie • 1933
Cheer Up and Smile
Movie • 1930
Born Reckless
Movie • 1930
Extra (uncredited)
Men without Women
Movie • 1930
Radioman on Surface (uncredited)
Salute
Movie • 1929
The Black Watch
Movie • 1929
Black Watch Soldier (uncredited)
Noah's Ark
Movie • 1928
Flood Extra (uncredited)
Four Sons
Movie • 1928
Mother Machree
Movie • 1927
Annie Laurie
Movie • 1927
The Great K&A Train Robbery
Movie • 1926
Extra (uncredited)
Bardelys the Magnificent
Movie • 1926
Guard (uncredited)
Chisum
Movie • 1970
John Chisum
The Wings of Eagles
Movie • 1957
Frank W. 'Spig' Wead
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
Movie • 2001
True Grit
Movie • 1969
Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn
Movie • 1975
Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
A Lady Takes a Chance
Movie • 1943
Duke Hudkins
Flying Leathernecks
Movie • 1951
Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Movie • 1958
Townsend Harris
The Horse Soldiers
Movie • 1959
Col John Marlowe
The High and the Mighty
Movie • 1954
Dan Roman
Sands of Iwo Jima
Movie • 1950
Sgt. John M. Stryker
They Were Expendable
Movie • 1945
Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan
The Lawless Frontier
Movie • 1934
John Tobin
The Big Stampede
Movie • 1932
Deputy Sheriff John Steele
The Undefeated
Movie • 1969
Colonel John Henry Thomas
Back to Bataan
Movie • 1945
Colonel Joseph Madden
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie • 1982
(archive footage)
The Man from Monterey
Movie • 1933
John Holmes
The Long Voyage Home
Movie • 1940
Ole Olsen
Haunted Gold
Movie • 1932
John Mason
Born to the West
Movie • 1937
Dare Rudd
The Man from Utah
Movie • 1934
John Weston
The Desert Trail
Movie • 1935
John Scott / John Jones
New Frontier
Movie • 1939
Stony Brooke
Rainbow Valley
Movie • 1935
John Martin
The Dawn Rider
Movie • 1935
John Mason
Blue Steel
Movie • 1934
John Carruthers
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Movie • 1934
Chris Morrell
Ride Him, Cowboy
Movie • 1932
John Drury
Jet Pilot
Movie • 1957
Col. Jim Shannon
Texas Cyclone
Movie • 1932
Steve Pickett
Two-Fisted Law
Movie • 1932
Duke
Somewhere in Sonora
Movie • 1933
John Bishop
The Telegraph Trail
Movie • 1933
John Trent
Lawless Range
Movie • 1935
John Middleton
King of the Pecos
Movie • 1936
John Clayborn
Tycoon
Movie • 1947
Johnny Munroe
Santa Fe Stampede
Movie • 1938
Stony Brooke
Dakota
Movie • 1945
John Devlin
Brown of Harvard
Movie • 1926
Yale LIneback Player
Arizona
Movie • 1931
Lt. Bob Denton
The Range Feud
Movie • 1931
Clint Turner
The Lawless Nineties
Movie • 1936
John Tipton
Bandits of the Badlands
Movie • 1934
John Carruthers
The Stagecoach Race
Movie • 1936
John Blair
The Shadow Gang
Movie • 1934
U.S. Marshal John Travers
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1933
Lt. Tom Wayne
Three Texas Steers
Movie • 1939
Stony Brooke
Next Of Kin
Movie • 1934
Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
Avenging Angel
Movie • 1935
John Mason
Idol of the Crowds
Movie • 1937
Johnny Hanson
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Overland Stage Raiders
Movie • 1938
Stony Brooke
Red River Range
Movie • 1938
Stony Brooke
No Substitute for Victory
Movie • 1970
Himself
Desert Command
Movie • 1946
Tom Wayne
Wyoming Outlaw
Movie • 1939
Stony Brooke
The Lonely Trail
Movie • 1936
Captain John Ashley
Pals of the Saddle
Movie • 1938
Stony Brooke
The Night Riders
Movie • 1939
Stony Brooke
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Movie • 1973
Self (archive footage)
John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies
Movie • 1990
Lady and Gent
Movie • 1932
Buzz Kinney
I Cover the War!
Movie • 1937
Bob Adams
California Straight Ahead
Movie • 1937
Biff Smith
The Drop Kick
Movie • 1927
Football Player / Extra in Stands
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Movie • 1976
Jerry Mason
You're the Star
Movie • 1953
Self
This Little Bullet
Movie • 1977
Host
Choice
Movie • 1964
Host
The Challenge of Ideas
Movie • 1961
Self
The New Frontier
Movie • 1935
John Dawson
Running Hollywood
Movie • 1932
Emcee
Lady from Louisiana
Movie • 1941
John Reynolds
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
The Draw-Back
Movie • 1927
Opposing Football Player
Rough Romance
Movie • 1930
Lumberjack (uncredited)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Movie • 1933
Smith
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Movie • 2023
Self (Archive Footage)
The John Wayne Story - The Later Years
Movie • 1993
Himself
JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND
Movie • 1998
Himself
Maker of Men
Movie • 1931
Dusty Rhodes
Cast a Giant Shadow
Movie • 1966
Gen. Mike Randolph
Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special
Movie • 1976
Words and Music
Movie • 1929
Pete Donahue (as Duke Morrison)
The Duke at Fox
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
Movie • 1976
Self
Girls Demand Excitement
Movie • 1931
Peter Brooks
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
John Ford & Monument Valley
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Oregon Trail
Movie • 1936
Capt John Delmont
Claim Jumpers
Movie • 1934
Jerry Mason
Rodeo Racketeers
Movie
The American West of John Ford
Movie • 1971
Self - Narrator
Conflict
Movie • 1936
Pat Glendon
Adventure's End
Movie • 1937
Duke Slade
The Colter Craven Story
Movie • 1960
Flashing Spikes
Movie • 1962
Marine Sergeant
Hangman's House
Movie • 1928
Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star
Movie • 1993
Himself
Sea Spoilers
Movie • 1936
Bob Randall
That's Action
Movie • 1977
self
Raquel!
Movie • 1970
Self
John Wayne on Film
Movie • 2016
Himself
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Movie • 1974
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Christmas Around the World with Perry Como
Movie • 2012
Self
Directed by John Ford
Movie • 1971
Self (1969)
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend
Movie • 1976
Himself/Narrator
John Wayne-A Life on Film
Movie • 2000
Himself
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
Movie • 1991
(archive footage)
Swing Out, Sweet Land
Movie • 1970
Self - Host
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
A Home Made Man
Movie • 1928
Man on Stool
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
The Screen Director
Movie • 1951
Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
Memo for Joe
Movie • 1944
Self
Speakeasy
Movie • 1929
Extra
The 10 from Texas
Movie • 1961
(archive footage)
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Movie • 2019
Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
It's Showtime
Movie • 1976
Self (archive footage)
John Wayne - America at All Costs
Movie • 2019
Himself (archive footage)
The Making of 'Rio Grande'
Movie • 1993
Self (archive footage)
The Selling of the Pentagon
Movie • 1971
Self (archive footage)
Guns Along The Trail
Movie • 1935
John Wyatt
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Movie • 1998
Self - Roaster (archive footage)
The Victory Squad
Movie • 1966
Self - Host
The John Wayne Story: The Early Years
Movie • 1993
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Movie • 1992
Davy Crockett
Three Girls Lost
Movie • 1931
Gordon Wales
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Dictator: One Crazy Job
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Three Lives
Movie • 1953
Self
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
Movie • 1970
Self
Nuke 'Em, Duke
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
Movie • 1975
(archive footage)
The Deceiver
Movie • 1931
Reginald Thorpe as a corpse
Hooray for Hollywood
Movie • 1976
Self (archive footage)
The Hollywood Handicap
Movie • 1932
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
Movie • 2019
Self (archive)
The Making of A Movie
Movie • 1965
Himself
Atomic People
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Fugitive
Movie • 1933
John
On the Run
Movie • 1935
John Jones
Cowboy G-Man
Movie • 1935
John Wyatt
Rodeo Rocketeers
Movie • 1934
John Weston
Klondike Gold
Movie • 1934
Rod Drew
Vengence is Mine
Movie • 1934
John Tobin
The Drifter
Movie • 1934
Randy
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Movie • 1958
Self
John Ford and Throwing
Movie • 2022
Naughty America: Guns & Stripes
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Elway
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Dead Man's Wire
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
Hell Town
Movie • 1937
Dare Rudd
The Man Behind the Star
Movie • 1973
Self
Spiritual day in Minneapolis
Movie • 2026
Desert Command
Movie
Tom Wayne
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
The Lucy Show
TV • 1962
John Wayne
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
John Wayne (uncredited)
I Love Lucy
TV • 1951
John Wayne
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Self - Host, Introduction to the Series
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self (uncredited)
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TV • 1969
Self
Producers' Showcase
TV • 1954
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
Casablanca
TV • 1955
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Alcoa Premiere
TV • 1961
Dateline: Hollywood
TV • 1967
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Mike Cronin
Talking Pictures
TV • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self (archive footage)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self - Cameo
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
John Wayne
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV • 1971
Self
Battleground
TV • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self (archive footage)
Western von gestern
TV • 1978
John Wyatt aka John Allen
Western von gestern
TV • 1978
John Wyatt aka John Allen (archive footage)
Western von gestern
TV • 1978
Stony Brooke (archive footage)
Maude
TV • 1972
Himself
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Hollywood and the Stars
TV • 1963
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
TV • 1980
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Self - Rooster Cogburn
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Self (uncredited)
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Self
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
TV • 1973
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self (uncredited)