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John Wayne, born Marion Robert Morrison in 1907, redefined Hollywood masculinity as a towering icon of the Western genre. After losing his football scholarship, he stumbled into bit parts at Fox Film Corporation, eventually landing leading roles that solidified his status with John Ford’s Stagecoach in 1939. Wayne's stoic, unconquerable presence spanned 142 films, eighty-three of them Westerns, portraying cowboys, cavalrymen, and complex antiheroes like the vengeful Civil War vet in The Searchers. Beyond the frontier, he shone in dramas like The Quiet Man and war epics like The Longest Day, earning an Oscar for True Grit in 1969. Wayne’s legacy is an enduring archetype of American resilience and rugged individualism.
The roles that explain the career.
80 credits across 2 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 2001 | The Duke at Fox | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 1993 | The John Wayne Story - The Later Years | Himself | Film |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | George Abitbol (archive footage) | Film |
| 1991 | Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 1990 | John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies | Film | |
| 1977 | Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast | Self | Film |
| 1976 | Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend | Himself/Narrator | Film |
| 1976 | The Shootist | J.B. Books | Film |
| 1975 | Brannigan | Lt. Jim Brannigan | Film |
| 1975 | Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television | (archive footage) | Film |
| 1975 | Rooster Cogburn | Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn | Film |
| 1974 | McQ | McQ | Film |
| 1974 | Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film |
| 1973 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 1973 | The Train Robbers | Lane | Film |
| 1973 | Cahill: United States Marshal | J.D. Cahill | Film |
| 1972 | Cancel My Reservation | Himself (uncredited) | Film |
| 1972 | The Cowboys | Wil Andersen | Film |
| 1971 | Directed by John Ford | Self (1969) | Film |
| 1971 | Big Jake | Jacob McCandles | Film |
| 1971 | The American West of John Ford | Self - Narrator | Film |
| 1970 | No Substitute for Victory | Sekf | Film |
| 1970 | Rio Lobo | Col. Cord McNally | Film |
| 1970 | Chisum | John Chisum | Film |
| 1969 | The Undefeated | Colonel John Henry Thomas | Film |
| 1969 | True Grit | Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn | Film |
| 1968 | Hellfighters | Chance Buckman | Film |
| 1968 | The Green Berets | Colonel Mike Kirby | Film |
| 1967 | The War Wagon | Taw Jackson | Film |
| 1966 | Cast a Giant Shadow | Gen. Mike Randolph | Film |
| 1966 | El Dorado | Cole Thornton | Film |
| 1965 | In Harm's Way | Capt. Rockwell Torrey | Film |
| 1965 | The Sons of Katie Elder | John Elder | Film |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Centurion at crucifixion | Film |
| 1964 | Circus World | Matt Masters | Film |
| 1963 | McLintock! | George Washington McLintock | Film |
| 1963 | Donovan's Reef | Michael "Guns" Donovan | Film |
| 1962 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Tom Doniphon | Film |
| 1962 | Hatari! | Sean Mercer | Film |
| 1962 | The Longest Day | Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort | Film |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | William Sherman | Film |
| 1961 | The Comancheros | Jake Cutter | Film |
| 1961 | The Challenge of Ideas | Self | Film |
| 1960 | The Alamo | Col. Davy Crockett | Film |
| 1960 | North to Alaska | Sam McCord | Film |
| 1959 | Rio Bravo | Sheriff John T. Chance | Film |
| 1959 | The Horse Soldiers | Col John Marlowe | Film |
| 1958 | I Married a Woman | Actor in a Movie (uncredited) | Film |
| 1958 | The Barbarian and the Geisha | Townsend Harris | Film |
| 1957 | The Wings of Eagles | Frank W. 'Spig' Wead | Film |
| 1957 | Jet Pilot | Col. Jim Shannon | Film |
| 1957 | Legend of the Lost | Joe January | Film |
| 1956 | The Conqueror | Temujin | Film |
| 1956 | The Searchers | Ethan Edwards | Film |
| 1955 | The Sea Chase | Captain Karl Ehrlich | Film |
| 1955 | Blood Alley | Capt. Tom Wilder | Film |
| 1954 | The High and the Mighty | Dan Roman | Film |
| 1953 | Trouble Along the Way | Stephen Aloysius Williams | Film |
| 1953 | Hondo | Hondo Lane | Film |
| 1953 | Island in the Sky | Captain Dooley | Film |
| 1952 | Big Jim McLain | Jim McLain | Film |
| 1952 | The Quiet Man | Sean Thornton | Film |
| 1951 | Flying Leathernecks | Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby | Film |
| 1951 | Operation Pacific | Duke E. Gifford | Film |
| 1950 | Rio Grande | Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke | Film |
| 1950 | Sands of Iwo Jima | Sgt. John M. Stryker | Film |
| 1949 | The Fighting Kentuckian | John Breen | Film |
| 1949 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles | Film |
| 1948 | Wake of the Red Witch | Capt. Ralls | Film |
| 1948 | 3 Godfathers | Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower | Film |
| 1948 | Fort Apache | Capt. Kirby York | Film |
| 1948 | Red River | Thomas Dunson | Film |
| 1947 | Tycoon | Johnny Munroe | Film |
| 1947 | Angel and the Badman | Quirt Evans | Film |
| 1946 | Without Reservations | Rusty Thomas | Film |
| 1946 | Desert Command | Tom Wayne | Film |
| 1945 | They Were Expendable | Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan | Film |
| 1945 | Back to Bataan | Colonel Joseph Madden | Film |
| 1945 | Dakota | John Devlin | Film |
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