EARLY DAYS PRODUCTIONS
Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, but his name was changed to Marion Michael Morrison when his parents decided to name their next son Robert. Wayne's family moved to Palmdale, California, and then to Glendale, California in 1911, where his father worked as a in a drug store. He played football for the 1924 champion Glendale High School team. He then attended the University of Southern California (USC), majoring in pre-law. When an injury curtailed his athletic career, he lost his athletic scholarship and, without funds, had to leave the university.
1907 - 1979
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Birth Name:
Marion Robert Morrison
Height: 6' 4"
Hair Color: light brown
Eye Color: blue
Nickname: Duke
Quote: "When I started, I knew I was no actor and I went to work on this Wayne thing. It was as deliberate a projection as you'll ever see. I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up the drawl, the squint and a way of moving meant to suggest that I wasn't looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not. I practiced in front of a mirror."
Birth Name:
Marion Robert Morrison
Height: 6' 4"
Hair Color: light brown
Eye Color: blue
Nickname: Duke
Quote: "When I started, I knew I was no actor and I went to work on this Wayne thing. It was as deliberate a projection as you'll ever see. I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up the drawl, the squint and a way of moving meant to suggest that I wasn't looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not. I practiced in front of a mirror."
Wayne began working at the local film studios. Western star Tom Mix had got him a summer job in the prop department in exchange for football tickets. Wayne soon moved on to bit parts, establishing a long friendship with the director who provided most of those parts, John Ford. After two years working as a prop man at the Fox Film Corporation for $75 a week, his first starring role was in the 1930 movie The Big Trail.
Wayne continued making Westerns, most notably at Monogram Pictures, and serials for Mascot Pictures Corporation, including The Three Musketeers (1933), a French Foreign Legion tale with no resemblance to the novel which inspired its title. Coincidentally, he also appeared in some of the Three Mesquiteers westerns whose title was a play on the Alexandre Dumas, père classic. He was tutored by stuntmen in riding and other Western skills. He and famed stuntman Yakima Canutt developed and perfected stunts still used today.
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John Wayne's Selected Filmography
1976 The Shootist
1975 Rooster Cogburn
1975 Brannigan
1974 McQ
1973 Cahill U.S. Marshal
1973 The Train Robbers
1972 The Cowboys
1971 Big Jake
1970 Rio Lobo
1970 Chisum
1969 The Undefeated
1969 True Grit
1968 Hellfighters
1968 The Green Berets
1967 The War Wagon
1966 El Dorado
1966 Cast a Giant Shadow
1965 The Sons of Katie Elder
1965 In Harm's Way
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
1964 Circus World
1963 McLintock!
1963 Donovan's Reef
1962 How the West Was Won
1962 The Longest Day
1962 Hatari!
1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1961 The Comancheros
1960 North to Alaska
1960 The Alamo
1959 The Horse Soldiers
1959 Rio Bravo
1958 The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958 I Married a Woman
1957 Legend of the Lost
1957 Jet Pilot
1957 The Wings of Eagles
1956 The Searchers
1956 The Conqueror
1955 Blood Alley
1955 The Sea Chase
1954 The High and the Mighty
1953 Hondo
1953 Island in the Sky
1953 Trouble Along the Way
1953 Three Lives (short)
1952 Big Jim McLain
1952 The Quiet Man
1952 Miracle in Motion (short)
1951 Flying Leathernecks
1951 Operation Pacific
1950 Rio Grande
1949 Sands of Iwo Jima
1949 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949 The Fighting Kentuckian
1948 Wake of the Red Witch
1948 3 Godfathers
1948 Red River
1948 Fort Apache
1947 Tycoon
1947 Angel and the Badman
1946 Without Reservations
1945 They Were Expendable
1945 Dakota
1945 Back to Bataan
1945 Flame of Barbary Coast
1944 Tall in the Saddle
1944 The Fighting Seabees
1943 In Old Oklahoma
1943 A Lady Takes a Chance
1942 Reunion in France
1942 Pittsburgh
1942 Flying Tigers
1942 In Old California
1942 The Spoilers
1942 Reap the Wild Wind
1942 Lady for a Night
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills
1941 Lady from Louisiana
1941 A Man Betrayed
1940 Seven Sinners
1940 The Long Voyage Home
1940 Three Faces West
1940 Dark Command
1939 Allegheny Uprising
1939 New Frontier
1939 Wyoming Outlaw
1939 Three Texas Steers
1939 The Night Riders
1939 Stagecoach
1938 Red River Range
1938 Santa Fe Stampede
1938 Overland Stage Raiders
1938 Pals of the Saddle
1937 Born to the West
1937 Adventure's End
1937 Idol of the Crowds
1937 I Cover the War
1937 California Straight Ahead!
1936 Conflict
1936 Sea Spoilers
1936 Winds of the Wasteland
1936 The Lonely Trail
1936 King of the Pecos
1936 The Lawless Nineties
1936 The Oregon Trail
1935 Lawless Range
1935 The New Frontier
1935 Westward Ho
1935 Paradise Canyon
1935 The Dawn Rider
1935 The Desert Trail
1935 Rainbow Valley
1935 Texas Terror
1934 'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934 The Lawless Frontier
1934 The Trail Beyond
1934 The Star Packer
1934 Randy Rides Alone
1934 The Man from Utah
1934 Blue Steel
1934 West of the Divide
1934 The Lucky Texan
1933 Sagebrush Trail
1933 College Coach
1933 Riders of Destiny
1933 The Man from Monterey
1933 Baby Face
1933 His Private Secretary
1933 The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933 Somewhere in Sonora
1933 Central Airport
1933 The Three Musketeers
1933 The Telegraph Trail
1932 Haunted Gold
1932 The Big Stampede
1932 That's My Boy
1932 Ride Him, Cowboy
1932 The Hurricane Express
1932 Lady and Gent
1932 Two-Fisted Law
1932 Texas Cyclone
1932 The Shadow of the Eagle
1931 Maker of Men
1931 The Range Feud
1931 The Deceiver
1931 Arizona
1931 Three Girls Lost
1931 Girls Demand Excitement
1930 The Big Trail
1930 Cheer Up and Smile
1930 Rough Romance
1930 Born Reckless
1930 Men Without Women
1929 The Forward Pass
1929 Salute
1929 Words and Music
1929 The Black Watch
1929 Speakeasy
1928 Noah's Ark
1928 Hangman's House
1928 Four Sons
1928 Mother Machree
1927 The Drop Kick
1927 Annie Laurie
1926 The Great K & A Train Robbery
1926 Bardelys the Magnificent
1926 Brown of Harvard
1975 Rooster Cogburn
1975 Brannigan
1974 McQ
1973 Cahill U.S. Marshal
1973 The Train Robbers
1972 The Cowboys
1971 Big Jake
1970 Rio Lobo
1970 Chisum
1969 The Undefeated
1969 True Grit
1968 Hellfighters
1968 The Green Berets
1967 The War Wagon
1966 El Dorado
1966 Cast a Giant Shadow
1965 The Sons of Katie Elder
1965 In Harm's Way
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
1964 Circus World
1963 McLintock!
1963 Donovan's Reef
1962 How the West Was Won
1962 The Longest Day
1962 Hatari!
1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1961 The Comancheros
1960 North to Alaska
1960 The Alamo
1959 The Horse Soldiers
1959 Rio Bravo
1958 The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958 I Married a Woman
1957 Legend of the Lost
1957 Jet Pilot
1957 The Wings of Eagles
1956 The Searchers
1956 The Conqueror
1955 Blood Alley
1955 The Sea Chase
1954 The High and the Mighty
1953 Hondo
1953 Island in the Sky
1953 Trouble Along the Way
1953 Three Lives (short)
1952 Big Jim McLain
1952 The Quiet Man
1952 Miracle in Motion (short)
1951 Flying Leathernecks
1951 Operation Pacific
1950 Rio Grande
1949 Sands of Iwo Jima
1949 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949 The Fighting Kentuckian
1948 Wake of the Red Witch
1948 3 Godfathers
1948 Red River
1948 Fort Apache
1947 Tycoon
1947 Angel and the Badman
1946 Without Reservations
1945 They Were Expendable
1945 Dakota
1945 Back to Bataan
1945 Flame of Barbary Coast
1944 Tall in the Saddle
1944 The Fighting Seabees
1943 In Old Oklahoma
1943 A Lady Takes a Chance
1942 Reunion in France
1942 Pittsburgh
1942 Flying Tigers
1942 In Old California
1942 The Spoilers
1942 Reap the Wild Wind
1942 Lady for a Night
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills
1941 Lady from Louisiana
1941 A Man Betrayed
1940 Seven Sinners
1940 The Long Voyage Home
1940 Three Faces West
1940 Dark Command
1939 Allegheny Uprising
1939 New Frontier
1939 Wyoming Outlaw
1939 Three Texas Steers
1939 The Night Riders
1939 Stagecoach
1938 Red River Range
1938 Santa Fe Stampede
1938 Overland Stage Raiders
1938 Pals of the Saddle
1937 Born to the West
1937 Adventure's End
1937 Idol of the Crowds
1937 I Cover the War
1937 California Straight Ahead!
1936 Conflict
1936 Sea Spoilers
1936 Winds of the Wasteland
1936 The Lonely Trail
1936 King of the Pecos
1936 The Lawless Nineties
1936 The Oregon Trail
1935 Lawless Range
1935 The New Frontier
1935 Westward Ho
1935 Paradise Canyon
1935 The Dawn Rider
1935 The Desert Trail
1935 Rainbow Valley
1935 Texas Terror
1934 'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934 The Lawless Frontier
1934 The Trail Beyond
1934 The Star Packer
1934 Randy Rides Alone
1934 The Man from Utah
1934 Blue Steel
1934 West of the Divide
1934 The Lucky Texan
1933 Sagebrush Trail
1933 College Coach
1933 Riders of Destiny
1933 The Man from Monterey
1933 Baby Face
1933 His Private Secretary
1933 The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933 Somewhere in Sonora
1933 Central Airport
1933 The Three Musketeers
1933 The Telegraph Trail
1932 Haunted Gold
1932 The Big Stampede
1932 That's My Boy
1932 Ride Him, Cowboy
1932 The Hurricane Express
1932 Lady and Gent
1932 Two-Fisted Law
1932 Texas Cyclone
1932 The Shadow of the Eagle
1931 Maker of Men
1931 The Range Feud
1931 The Deceiver
1931 Arizona
1931 Three Girls Lost
1931 Girls Demand Excitement
1930 The Big Trail
1930 Cheer Up and Smile
1930 Rough Romance
1930 Born Reckless
1930 Men Without Women
1929 The Forward Pass
1929 Salute
1929 Words and Music
1929 The Black Watch
1929 Speakeasy
1928 Noah's Ark
1928 Hangman's House
1928 Four Sons
1928 Mother Machree
1927 The Drop Kick
1927 Annie Laurie
1926 The Great K & A Train Robbery
1926 Bardelys the Magnificent
1926 Brown of Harvard
Early Days Productions: John Wayne 03/12/2012
Full Movie: Stagecoach (1939)
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. - Edited from IMDB
Beginning in 1928, and extending over the next 35 years, Wayne appeared in more than twenty of John Ford 's films, including Stagecoach (1939), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), The Quiet Man (1952), The Searchers (1956), The Wings of Eagles (1957), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). His performance in Stagecoach made him a star.
John Wayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe for his performance as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969). Upon accepting his Oscar, Wayne said, "If I'd known this, I'd have put that eyepatch on 40 years ago." A film sequel, Rooster Cogburn , was made in 1975, with John Wayne reprising his role from the first film, and Katharine Hepburn as an elderly spinster, Eula Goodnight, who teams up with him. John Wayne died of stomach cancer on June 11, 1979 , at the UCLA Medical Center, and was interred in the Pacific View Memorial Park cemetery in Corona del Mar.
