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John Wayne

Highest Rated:: 100% Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Lowest Rated:: 14% Hellfighters (1968)

Birthday:: May 26, 1907
Birthplace:: Winterset, Iowa, USA
Bio:: Arguably the most popular -- and certainly the busiest -- movie leading man in Hollywood history, John Wayne entered the film business while working as a laborer on the Fox lot during summer vacations from U.S.C., which he attended on a football scholarship. He met and was befriended by John Ford, a…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 14% - 100%

Number of Movies: 222

Box Office Since 2001: --

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2008		Rona Barrett's Hollywood: Nothing but the Truth	Actor	--
2008		TV Mania Too!	Actor	--
2007		John Wayne's Tribute To America	Actor	--
2006		TV Gold	Actor	--
2006		Am�rique, notre histoire	Actor	--
2006		No Substitute for Victory: From Vietnam to Iraq	Actor	--
2006		Directed by John Ford	Actor	--
2005		Legendary Cowboy Kings	Actor	--
2005		Stagecoach Race	Actor	--
2004		Bob Hope - Hope for the Holidays	Actor	--
2003		John Wayne: American Legend	Actor	--
1999		Bob Hope Christmas & Bob Hope's Christams With the Troops	Actor	--
1999		Wild Animal Stars	Actor	--
1998		John Wayne: Hollywood Hall Of Fame Documentary	Actor	--
1996		On Board With the Duke	Actor	--
1995		John Wayne - Rodeo Racketeers	Actor	--
1993		Young Duke: The Making of a Movie Star	Actor	--
1993		John Wayne: The Early Years	Actor	--
1993		John Wayne Story: The Later Years	Actor	--
1990		Hollywood on Parade	Actor	--
1990		John Wayne: The Duke Rides Again	Actor	--
1990		John Wayne: Bigger Than Life	Actor	--
1988		Saturday at the Movies	Actor	--
1987		Smoke That Cigarette	Actor	--
1987		Wild West	Actor	--
1987		Hollywood Home Movies	Actor	--
1984		John Wayne: The Duke Lives On	Actor	--
1984		Cowboys of the Saturday Matinee	Actor	--
1983		A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - John Ford	Actor	--
1978		Perry Como's Early American Christmas	Actor	--
1976		America at the Movies	Actor	--
1976	93%	The Shootist	John Bernard Books	--
1975	20%	Brannigan	Jim Brannigan	--
1975	43%	Rooster Cogburn	Rooster Cogburn	--
1975		Hooray for Hollywood	Actor	--
1974	43%	McQ	McQ	--
1973		Cahill U.S. Marshal	J.D. Cahill	--
1973		American West of John Ford	Host	--
1973	20%	The Train Robbers	Lane	--
1972		Cancel My Reservation	Himself	--
1972	73%	The Cowboys	Wil Anderson	--
1971		Big Jake	Jacob McCandles	--
1970	80%	Chisum	John Chisum	--
1970		Raquel!	Actor	--
1970	71%	Rio Lobo	Cord McNally	--
1970		This Little Bullet	Actor	--
1969	20%	The Undefeated	Col. John Henry Thomas	--
1969	90%	True Grit	Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn	--
1968	30%	The Green Berets	Director Col. Mike Kirby	--
1968	14%	Hellfighters	Chance Buckman	--
1967	100%	El Dorado	Cole Thornton	--
1967	80%	The War Wagon	Taw Jackson	--
1966		Cast a Giant Shadow	Gen. Mike Randolph	--
1965	37%	The Greatest Story Ever Told	The Centurion	--
1965	40%	In Harm's Way	Capt. Rockwell Torrey	--
1965	100%	The Sons of Katie Elder	John Elder	--
1964	40%	Circus World (The Magnificent Showman)	Matt Masters	--
1964		Carson Country	Actor	--
1963	60%	Donovan's Reef	Michael Patrick "Guns" Donovan	--
1963		McLintock!	George Washington McLintock	--
1962		Merv Griffin Show - 40 of the Most Interesting People of Our Time	Actor	--
1962	93%	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Tom Doniphon	--
1962	100%	How the West Was Won	Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman	--
1962	92%	The Longest Day	Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort	--
1962	68%	Hatari!	Sean Mercer	--
1961	100%	The Comancheros	Capt. Jake Cutter	--
1960	50%	The Alamo	Director Col. David Crockett	--
1960	33%	North to Alaska	Sam McCord	--
1959	100%	Rio Bravo	Sheriff John T. Chance	--
1959	100%	The Horse Soldiers	Col. John Marlowe	--
1958		The Barbarian and the Geisha	Townsend Harris	--
1957		The Wings of Eagles	Frank W. "Spig" Wead	--
1957	60%	Jet Pilot	Col. Shannon	--
1957		Legend of the Lost	Joe January	--
1956		The Conqueror	Temujin	--
1956	100%	The Searchers	Ethan Edwards	--
1956		I Married a Woman	Himself	--
1955		Blood Alley	Director Capt. Tom Wilder	--
1955		The Sea Chase	Capt. Karl Erlich	--
1954	25%	The High and the Mighty	Dan Roman	--
1953		Trouble Along the Way	Steve Aloysius Williams	--
1953		Island In The Sky	Capt. Dooley	--
1953	86%	Hondo	Hondo Lane	--
1952		Big Jim McLain	Big Jim McLain	--
1952	89%	The Quiet Man	Sean Thornton	--
1951		Operation Pacific	Cmdr. "Duke" Gifford	--
1951	86%	Flying Leathernecks	Maj. Dan Kirby	--
1950	75%	Rio Grande	Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke	--
1949	100%	Sands of Iwo Jima	Sgt. John M. Stryker	--
1949	94%	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	Capt. Nathan Brittles	--
1949		The Fighting Kentuckian	John Breen	--
1948	100%	Fort Apache	Capt. Kirby York	--
1948	100%	Red River	Tom Dunson	--
1948		Wake of the Red Witch	Capt. Ralls	--
1948	82%	3 Godfathers	Robert Marmaduke Hightower	--
1947		Tycoon	Johnny Munroe	--
1947	67%	Angel and the Badman	Producer Quirt Evans	--
1946		Without Reservations (Thanks God, I'll Take It from Here)	Rusty Thomas	--
1946		Desert Command	Tom	--
1945	88%	They Were Expendable	Lt. J.G. "Rusty" Ryan	--
1945		Flame of Barbary Coast	Duke Fergus	--
1945		Dakota	John Devlin	--
1945		Back to Bataan	Col. Joe Madden	--
1944	100%	The Fighting Seabees	Wedge Donovan	--
1943		A Lady Takes a Chance	Duke Hudkins	--
1943		In Old Oklahoma (War of the Wildcats)	Dan Somers	--
1942		The Night Riders	Actor	--
1942		In Old California	Tom Craig Director	--
1942		Reunion in France (Mademoiselle France) (Reunion)	Pat Talbot	--
1942	63%	Flying Tigers	Jim Gordon	--
1942	67%	Reap the Wild Wind	Capt. Jack Stuart	--
1942		The Spoilers	Roy Glennister	--
1942		Pittsburgh	Charles "Pittsburgh" Markham	--
1941		Tall in the Saddle	Rocklin	--
1941		Lady from Louisiana (Lady from New Orleans)	John Reynolds	--
1941		Lady for a Night	Jack Morgan	--
1941		The Shepherd of the Hills	Young Matt Matthews	--
1941		A Man Betrayed (Citadel of Crime) (Wheel of Fortune)	Lynn Hollister	--
1940		Three Faces West	John Phillips	--
1940		Seven Sinners	Lt. Dan Brent	--
1940		The Dark Command	Bob Setton	--
1940	100%	The Long Voyage Home	Ole Olsen	--
1939		Wyoming Outlaw	Stony Brooke	--
1939		Three Texas Steers	Stony Brooke	--
1939	100%	Stagecoach	The Ringo Kid	--
1939		Allegheny Uprising	Jim Smith	--
1939		New Frontier (Frontier Horizon)	Stony Brooke	--
1938		Santa Fe Stampede	Stony Brooke	--
1938		Pals of the Saddle	Stony Brook (aka Ezeckial Saunders)	--
1938		Overland Stage Raiders	Stony Brooke	--
1938		Red River Range	Stony Brooke	--
1937		Born to the West (Hell Town)	Dare Rudd	--
1937		Helltown	Actor	--
1937		California Straight Ahead!	Biff Smith	--
1937		I Cover the War	Bob Adams	--
1937		Idol of the Crowds	Johnny Hanson	--
1937		Adventure's End	Duke Slade	--
1937		Conflict	Pat	--
1936		Winds of the Wasteland	John Blair	--
1936		The Lawless Nineties	John Tipton	--
1936		Sea Spoilers	Bob Randall	--
1936		King of the Pecos	John Clayborn	--
1936		The Oregon Trail	Capt. John Delmont	--
1936		Stagecoach Run	Actor	--
1936		The Lonely Trail	John Ashley	--
1935		John Wayne - Texas Terror	Actor	--
1935		The Lawless Frontier	John Tobin	--
1935		John Wayne - Rainbow Valley	Actor	--
1935		Rainbow Valley	John Martin	--
1935		The Dawn Rider	John Mason	--
1935		Westward Ho	Director John Wyatt	--
1935		The New Frontier	John Dawson	--
1935		The Desert Trail	John Scott	--
1935		Paradise Canyon (Paradise Ranch)	John Wyatt	--
1935		Texas Terror	John Higgins	--
1935		John Wayne - Lawless Frontier	Actor	--
1935		Guns Along the Trail	Actor	--
1935		Lawless Range	John Middleton	--
1934		Stolen Goods	Actor	--
1934		'Neath the Arizona Skies	Chris Morrell	--
1934		John Wayne - Man From Utah	Actor	--
1934		Randy Rides Alone	Randy Bowers	--
1934		The Man from Utah	John Weston	--
1934		The Lucky Texan (Gold Strike River)	Jerry Mason	--
1934		West of the Divide	Ted Hayden	--
1934		The Trail Beyond	Rod Drew	--
1934		Blue Steel (An Innocent Man)	John Carruthers	--
1934		Gold Strike Fever	Actor	--
1934		The Star Packer (He Wore a Star)	U.S. Marshall John Travers	--
1933		The Three Musketeers	Tom Wayne	--
1933		College Coach (Football Coach )	Football Player	--
1933		The Life of Jimmy Dolan	Smith	--
1933		Fugitive	Actor	--
1933		Riders of Destiny	Singin' Sandy Saunders	--
1933	100%	Baby Face	Jimmy McCoy	--
1933		His Private Secretary	Dick Wallace	--
1933		Somewhere in Sonora	John Bishop	--
1933		Haunted Gold	Actor	--
1933		The Man from Monterey	Capt. John Holmes	--
1933		Man From Monterey	Actor	--
1933		Sagebrush Trail	John Brant	--
1933		Telegraph Trail	Actor	--
1933		Central Airport	Co-pilot in wreck	--
1933		The Telegraph Trail	John Trent	--
1933		Desert Command	Actor	--
1932		Lady and Gent (The Challenger)	Buzz Kinney	--
1932		Texas Cyclone	Steve Pickett	--
1932		Shadow of the Eagle	Craig McCoy	--
1932		Haunted Gold	John Mason	--
1932		Big Stampede	Actor	--
1932		The Hurricane Express	Larry Baker	--
1932		Ride Him, Cowboy	John Drury	--
1932		The Big Stampede	John Steele	--
1932		Two Fisted Law	Actor	--
1932		That's My Boy	Actor	--
1932		Two-Fisted Law	Duke	--
1931		Arizona	Lt. Bob Denton	--
1931		The Deceiver	Richard Thorpe as a corpse	--
1931		Three Girls Lost	Gordon Wales	--
1931		Girls Demand Excitement	Peter Brooks	--
1931		Range Feud	Clint Turner	--
1931		Maker of Men (Yellow)	Dusty	--
1930	100%	The Big Trail	Breck Coleman Director	--
1930		Rough Romance	Lumberjack	--
1930		Born Reckless	Extra	--
1930		Men Without Women	Radioman on surface	--
1930		Cheer Up and Smile	Actor	--
1929		Words and Music	Pete Donahue	--
1929		The Black Watch, (King of the Khyber Rifles)	Extra	--
1929		The Forward Pass	Extra	--
1929		Salute	Midshipman	--
1929		Speakeasy	Extra	--
1928		Mother Machree	Extra	--
1928		Noah's Ark	Extra	--
1928		Four Sons	Extra	--
1928		Hangman's House	Spectator at Horse Race	--
1927		Annie Laurie	Extra	--
1927		The Drop Kick, (Glitter)	USC Football Player	--
1926		Bardelys the Magnificent	Guard	--
1926		The Great K&A Train Robbery	Extra	--
1926		Brown of Harvard	Football player (uncredited)	--
		Helltown	Actor	--

John Wayne Trivia

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John Wayne's huge popularity among members of the Defence Forces led to the nicknaming of several items of army supply: * the R38 JW can opener (because it "can do anything") * the JW toilet paper (because "it's so rough & tough & don't take shit off no-one") * C-Ration JW crackers (because "only someone as tough as JW could eat them").

- submitted by mirabella 1 (3 years ago)

John Wayne's 2nd wife, Mexican actress Esperanza Baur, attempted to shoot him out of anger over his numerous affairs. Sensibly, they divorced in 1954.

- submitted by mirabella 1 (3 years ago)

Quotes from John Wayne's Characters

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1. Cole Thornton: What about using a gun?
2. Alan Bourdillon Trehearne (Mississippi): Johnny didn't believe in using guns.
3. Cole Thornton: He's dead. Think about that.
From El Dorado. Submitted by Rick M (4 months ago)

1. John Bernard Books: I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
From The Shootist. Submitted by Sarfaraz A (9 months ago)