John Wayne

🎂 Data nașterii: 1907-05-26 (Winterset, Iowa, USA )

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.

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John Wayne

Filme în care a jucat

Rio Bravo

Diligența

Tipii duri din filmele artistice

Râul roșu

Omul liniștit

Căutătorii

Viața lui Iisus

The Movie Orgy

Alamo

The Comancheros

Cahill: United States Marshal

Hatari!

North to Alaska

Hondo

The Fighting Seabees

Marele Jake

Bărbatul care l-a împușcat pe Liberty Valance

Îngerul și băiatul rău

Beretele verzi

El Dorado

Paradise Canyon

Rio Grande

Riders of Destiny

Randy Rides Alone

Texas Terror

The Lucky Texan

John Wayne - Un om nevinovat

The Conqueror

Cum a fost câștigat Vestul

Perry Como's Early American Christmas

A Man Betrayed

Without Reservations

The Shootist

Legend of the Lost

Ziua cea mai lungă

A Nation Builds Under Fire

Hellfighters

Rio Lobo

McQ

The War Wagon

Brannigan

Baby Face

Wayne Train

Reunion in France

Winds of the Wasteland

The Trail Beyond

West of the Divide

Șapte păcate

Island in the Sky

The Sea Chase

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Dark Command

Lady for a Night

Operation Pacific

Trouble Along the Way

In Old California

Hoții de trenuri

Big Jim McLain

Three Faces West

Wake of the Red Witch

Flame of Barbary Coast

In Old Oklahoma

The Shadow of the Eagle

His Private Secretary

3 Godfathers

Flying Tigers

Calea sângelui

The Big Trail

Circus World

The Shepherd of the Hills

Fort Apache

McLintock!

The Fighting Kentuckian

Tall in the Saddle

The Spoilers

Allegheny Uprising

Donovan's Reef

Cowboy