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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 26, 1907
Died
June 11, 1979
Place of Birth
Winterset, Iowa, USA
Also Known As
- Duke
- The Duke
- ジョン・ウェイン
- Michael Morris
- جان وین
- Marion Mitchell Morrison
- Marion Robert Morrison
John Wayne
4.5 Popularity
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.
Known For
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Naughty America: Guns & Stripes
2025
5.3
Self (archive footage)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024
8.2
Self (archive footage)
Atomic People
2024
0.0
Self (Archive Footage)
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
2023
7.3
Self (archive footage)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
0.0
John Ford and Throwing
2022
0.0
Self (archive)
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
2019
6.7
Himself (archive footage)
John Wayne - America at All Costs
2019
6.5
Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
2019
10.0
Himself
John Wayne on Film
2016
Credits
Naughty America: Guns & Stripes
as Self (archive footage)
2025
0.0
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
as Self (archive footage)
2024
5.3
Atomic People
as Self (archive footage)
2024
8.2
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
as Self (Archive Footage)
2023
0.0
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.3
John Ford and Throwing
2022
0.0
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
as Self (archive)
2019
0.0
John Wayne - America at All Costs
as Himself (archive footage)
2019
6.7
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
2019
6.5
John Wayne on Film
as Himself
2016
10.0
Dictator: One Crazy Job
as Self (archive footage)
2013
6.5
John Ford & Monument Valley
as Self (archive footage)
2013
1.0
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
5.8
Christmas Around the World with Perry Como
as Self
2012
0.0
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self (archive footage)
2010
6.6
Nuke 'Em, Duke
as Self (archive footage)
2010
0.0
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
2009
7.5
🎬
Battleground
as Self (archive footage)
2004
0.0
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
2001
7.0
The Duke at Fox
as Self (archive footage)
2001
0.0
John Wayne-A Life on Film
as Himself
2000
0.0
🎬
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self (archive footage)
1999
0.0
🎬
JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND
as Himself
1998
4.0
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self - Roaster (archive footage)
1998
5.0
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
1997
4.9
La Classe américaine
as George Abitbol (archive footage)
1993
7.6
🎬
Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star
as Himself
1993
0.0
The John Wayne Story - The Later Years
as Himself
1993
0.0
The John Wayne Story: The Early Years
1993
3.5
The Making of 'Rio Grande'
as Self (archive footage)
1993
5.0
🎬
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
as Davy Crockett
1992
6.0
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
1991
5.7
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
as (archive footage)
1991
6.0
Movie Tough Guys
as Self (archive footage)
1991
10.0
🎬
John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies
1990
0.0
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
1988
6.0
Sacrée Soirée
as Self (archive footage)
1987
5.1
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
1982
10.0
Hollywood
as Self
1980
8.3
Perry Como's Early American Christmas
as Self
1978
0.0
Western von gestern
as John Wyatt aka John Allen (archive footage)
1978
7.7
Western von gestern
as John Wyatt aka John Allen
1978
7.7
Western von gestern
as Stony Brooke (archive footage)
1978
7.7
🎬
This Little Bullet
as Host
1977
0.0
🎬
That's Action
as self
1977
0.0
Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special
1976
0.0
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
as Self
1976
7.3
The Shootist
as J.B. Books
1976
7.1
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as Jerry Mason
1976
9.0
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend
as Himself/Narrator
1976
6.5
It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)
1976
7.0
Hooray for Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
1976
0.0
Rooster Cogburn
as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
1975
6.4
🎬
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
as (archive footage)
1975
0.0
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
Brannigan
as Lt. Jim Brannigan
1975
6.0
Spécial cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
1974
0.0
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
7.0
McQ
as McQ
1974
6.1
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self
1973
5.4
Cahill: United States Marshal
as J.D. Cahill
1973
6.1
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
🎬
Wayne Train
as Self
1973
0.0
The Train Robbers
as Lane
1973
6.3
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
as Self (archive footage)
1973
6.8
Cancel My Reservation
as Himself (uncredited)
1972
5.3
Maude
as Himself
1972
6.7
The Cowboys
as Wil Andersen
1972
7.1
The American West of John Ford
as Self - Narrator
1971
6.2
Directed by John Ford
as Self (1969)
1971
6.9
Big Jake
as Jacob McCandles
1971
6.9
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
🎬
The Selling of the Pentagon
as Self (archive footage)
1971
0.0
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
as Self
1970
0.0
Chisum
as John Chisum
1970
6.7
Raquel!
as Self
1970
10.0
Rio Lobo
as Col. Cord McNally
1970
6.5
Swing Out, Sweet Land
as Self - Host
1970
6.0
No Substitute for Victory
as Himself
1970
4.3
The Undefeated
as Colonel John Henry Thomas
1969
6.2
True Grit
as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
1969
7.3
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
1969
5.8
Hellfighters
as Chance Buckman
1968
6.4
The Green Berets
as Colonel Mike Kirby
1968
5.7
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited)
1968
6.6
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
6.6
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited)
1968
6.6
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1968
6.3
The War Wagon
as Taw Jackson
1967
6.8
🎬
Dateline: Hollywood
1967
0.0
A Nation Builds Under Fire
as Narrator
1967
0.0
El Dorado
as Cole Thornton
1966
7.4
The Victory Squad
as Self - Host
1966
4.0
Cast a Giant Shadow
as Gen. Mike Randolph
1966
6.2
The Sons of Katie Elder
as John Elder
1965
7.0
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Centurion at crucifixion
1965
6.4
In Harm's Way
as Capt. Rockwell Torrey
1965
6.6
🎬
The Making of A Movie
as Himself
1965
0.0
Circus World
as Matt Masters
1964
6.2
🎬
Choice
as Host
1964
1.0
McLintock!
as George Washington McLintock
1963
6.6
🎬
Hollywood and the Stars
as Self (archive footage)
1963
6.0
Donovan's Reef
as Michael "Guns" Donovan
1963
6.3
How the West Was Won
as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
1962
7.0
Flashing Spikes
as Marine Sergeant
1962
6.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Lucy Show
as John Wayne
1962
7.0
The Beverly Hillbillies
as John Wayne (uncredited)
1962
6.9
The Longest Day
as Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
1962
7.6
Hatari!
as Sean Mercer
1962
6.8
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Tom Doniphon
1962
7.8
The Comancheros
as Jake Cutter
1961
6.7
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self (archive footage)
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Alcoa Premiere
1961
5.0
🎬
The Challenge of Ideas
as Self
1961
3.5
The 10 from Texas
as (archive footage)
1961
0.0
The Colter Craven Story
1960
0.0
North to Alaska
as Sam McCord
1960
6.5
The Alamo
as Col. Davy Crockett
1960
7.1
The Horse Soldiers
as Col John Marlowe
1959
7.0
Rio Bravo
as Sheriff John T. Chance
1959
7.8
The Barbarian and the Geisha
as Townsend Harris
1958
5.9
The Western: A Lost TV Special
as Self
1958
0.0
I Married a Woman
as Actor in a Movie (uncredited)
1958
5.8
Legend of the Lost
as Joe January
1957
6.1
Jet Pilot
as Col. Jim Shannon
1957
5.4
Wagon Train
as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
1957
6.6
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
The Wings of Eagles
as Frank W. 'Spig' Wead
1957
6.2
The Searchers
as Ethan Edwards
1956
7.7
The Conqueror
as Temujin
1956
3.5
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Mike Cronin
1955
6.5
Blood Alley
as Capt. Tom Wilder
1955
5.9
Casablanca
1955
10.0
Gunsmoke
as Self - Host, Introduction to the Series
1955
6.6
The Sea Chase
as Captain Karl Ehrlich
1955
6.1
🎬
Producers' Showcase
as Self
1954
6.5
The High and the Mighty
as Dan Roman
1954
5.9
Hondo
as Hondo Lane
1953
6.6
🎬
Three Lives
as Self
1953
0.0
Island in the Sky
as Captain Dooley
1953
6.3
Trouble Along the Way
as Stephen Aloysius Williams
1953
5.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
You're the Star
as Self
1953
0.0
Big Jim McLain
as Jim McLain
1952
4.9
The Quiet Man
as Sean Thornton
1952
7.3
I Love Lucy
as John Wayne
1951
7.9
The Red Skelton Show
as Self (uncredited)
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Self
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Self - Rooster Cogburn
1951
7.4
Flying Leathernecks
as Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby
1951
5.8
🎬
The Screen Director
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
1951
6.0
Operation Pacific
as Duke E. Gifford
1951
6.0
Rio Grande
as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke
1950
6.8
The Jack Benny Program
as John Wayne
1950
7.8
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
The Bob Hope Show
as Self - Cameo
1950
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Sands of Iwo Jima
as Sgt. John M. Stryker
1950
6.4
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
as Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles
1949
6.9
The Fighting Kentuckian
as John Breen
1949
5.9
3 Godfathers
as Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower
1948
6.7
Wake of the Red Witch
as Capt. Ralls
1948
5.6
Red River
as Thomas Dunson
1948
7.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Fort Apache
as Capt. Kirby York
1948
7.0
Tycoon
as Johnny Munroe
1947
5.3
Angel and the Badman
as Quirt Evans
1947
6.4
Desert Command
as Tom Wayne
1946
3.6
Without Reservations
as Rusty Thomas
1946
6.2
Dakota
as John Devlin
1945
5.1
They Were Expendable
as Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan
1945
6.5
Back to Bataan
as Colonel Joseph Madden
1945
6.0
Flame of Barbary Coast
as Duke Fergus
1945
5.3
Tall in the Saddle
as Rocklin
1944
6.5
Memo for Joe
as Self
1944
0.0
The Fighting Seabees
as Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan
1944
6.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
In Old Oklahoma
as Daniel F Somers
1943
6.2
A Lady Takes a Chance
as Duke Hudkins
1943
5.6
Reunion in France
as Pat Talbot
1942
6.4
Pittsburgh
as Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham
1942
6.2
Flying Tigers
as Jim Gordon
1942
6.2
The Spoilers
as Glennister
1942
6.2
In Old California
as Tom Craig
1942
5.1
Reap the Wild Wind
as Captain Jack Stuart
1942
6.4
Lady for a Night
as Jackson Morgan
1942
5.2
The Shepherd of the Hills
as Young Matt Matthews
1941
6.5
Lady from Louisiana
as John Reynolds
1941
5.3
A Man Betrayed
as Lynn Hollister
1941
5.4
The Long Voyage Home
as Ole Olsen
1940
6.6
Seven Sinners
as Dan
1940
5.8
Three Faces West
as John Phillips
1940
5.4
Dark Command
as Bob Seton
1940
6.3
Allegheny Uprising
as Jim Smith
1939
5.6
New Frontier
as Stony Brooke
1939
5.5
Wyoming Outlaw
as Stony Brooke
1939
5.6
Three Texas Steers
as Stony Brooke
1939
4.9
The Night Riders
as Stony Brooke
1939
5.5
Stagecoach
as The Ringo Kid
1939
7.6
Red River Range
as Stony Brooke
1938
5.0
Santa Fe Stampede
as Stony Brooke
1938
5.5
Overland Stage Raiders
as Stony Brooke
1938
5.0
Pals of the Saddle
as Stony Brooke
1938
5.2
Born to the West
as Dare Rudd
1937
4.6
Adventure's End
as Duke Slade
1937
5.0
Idol of the Crowds
as Johnny Hanson
1937
4.1
I Cover the War!
as Bob Adams
1937
4.9
California Straight Ahead
as Biff Smith
1937
4.3
Conflict
as Pat Glendon
1936
2.0
Sea Spoilers
as Bob Randall
1936
4.5
Winds of the Wasteland
as John Blair
1936
5.1
The Stagecoach Race
as John Blair
1936
0.0
The Lonely Trail
as Captain John Ashley
1936
4.6
King of the Pecos
as John Clayborn
1936
5.5
The Lawless Nineties
as John Tipton
1936
5.2
The Oregon Trail
as Capt John Delmont
1936
4.0
Lawless Range
as John Middleton
1935
4.0
The New Frontier
as John Dawson
1935
4.6
Texas Terror
as John Higgins
1935
4.6
Guns Along The Trail
as John Wyatt
1935
3.0
Westward Ho
as John Wyatt
1935
5.3
Cowboy G-Man
as John Wyatt
1935
0.0
Paradise Canyon
as John Wyatt
1935
4.8
The Dawn Rider
as John Mason
1935
4.6
Avenging Angel
as John Mason
1935
4.0
On the Run
as John Jones
1935
0.0
The Desert Trail
as John Scott / John Jones
1935
4.5
Rainbow Valley
as John Martin
1935
4.7
'Neath the Arizona Skies
as Chris Morrell
1934
4.5
The Lawless Frontier
as John Tobin
1934
4.6
Vengence is Mine
as John Tobin
1934
0.0
The Trail Beyond
as Rod Drew
1934
4.6
Klondike Gold
as Rod Drew
1934
0.0
The Star Packer
as U.S. Marshal John Travers
1934
4.4
The Drifter
as Randy
1934
0.0
Randy Rides Alone
as Randy Bowers
1934
4.8
The Shadow Gang
as U.S. Marshal John Travers
1934
0.0
Next Of Kin
as Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
1934
0.0
Bandits of the Badlands
as John Carruthers
1934
0.0
The Man from Utah
as John Weston
1934
4.6
Rodeo Rocketeers
as John Weston
1934
0.0
Blue Steel
as John Carruthers
1934
4.7
West of the Divide
as Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
1934
5.0
The Lucky Texan
as Jerry Mason
1934
4.9
Claim Jumpers
as Jerry Mason
1934
0.0
Sagebrush Trail
as John Brant
1933
5.2
Fugitive
as John
1933
0.0
College Coach
as Football player (uncredited)
1933
4.1
Riders of Destiny
as Singin' Sandy Saunders
1933
5.2
The Man from Monterey
as John Holmes
1933
4.4
Baby Face
as Jimmy McCoy Jr.
1933
7.2
His Private Secretary
as Dick Wallace
1933
4.8
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
as Smith
1933
6.0
Somewhere in Sonora
as John Bishop
1933
5.0
Central Airport
1933
6.1
The Three Musketeers
as Lt. Tom Wayne
1933
5.3
The Telegraph Trail
as John Trent
1933
4.7
Haunted Gold
as John Mason
1932
5.0
The Big Stampede
as Deputy Sheriff John Steele
1932
4.8
Ride Him, Cowboy
as John Drury
1932
4.7
🎬
The Hollywood Handicap
1932
0.0
The Hurricane Express
as The Air Pilot
1932
5.2
Lady and Gent
as Buzz Kinney
1932
5.7
Two-Fisted Law
as Duke
1932
4.6
Texas Cyclone
as Steve Pickett
1932
4.2
The Shadow of the Eagle
as Craig McCoy
1932
5.1
🎬
Running Hollywood
as Emcee
1932
0.0
🎬
The Deceiver
as Reginald Thorpe as a corpse
1931
0.0
The Range Feud
as Clint Turner
1931
5.1
Maker of Men
as Dusty Rhodes
1931
0.0
Arizona
as Lt. Bob Denton
1931
4.3
Three Girls Lost
as Gordon Wales
1931
0.0
Girls Demand Excitement
as Peter Brooks
1931
0.0
The Big Trail
as Breck Coleman
1930
6.7
Cheer Up and Smile
1930
0.0
Rough Romance
as Lumberjack (uncredited)
1930
5.0
Born Reckless
as Extra (uncredited)
1930
5.5
Men Without Women
as Radioman on Surface (uncredited)
1930
6.3
Salute
1929
4.7
Words and Music
as Pete Donahue (as Duke Morrison)
1929
0.0
The Black Watch
as Black Watch Soldier (uncredited)
1929
6.0
Speakeasy
as Extra
1929
5.0
Noah's Ark
as Flood Extra (uncredited)
1928
6.2
A Home Made Man
as Man on Stool
1928
6.0
Hangman's House
as Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback
1928
6.5
Four Sons
1928
7.2
Mother Machree
1927
6.2
The Drop Kick
as Football Player / Extra in Stands
1927
4.7
Annie Laurie
1927
6.7
The Draw-Back
as Opposing Football Player
1927
4.5
The Great K&A Train Robbery
as Extra (uncredited)
1926
5.7
Bardelys the Magnificent
as Guard (uncredited)
1926
7.4
Brown of Harvard
as Yale LIneback Player
1926
5.3
🎬
Rodeo Racketeers
N/A
0.0