John Wayne

John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), nicknamed "Duke," was an American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s. He was a major star from the 1940s to the 1970s. He is most famous for his Westerns, but he also made films of various other kinds. He epitomised a certain kind of rugged individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring icon.

Filmography

1920s

• Brown of Harvard (1926)
• Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
• The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926)
• Annie Laurie (1927)
• The Drop Kick (1927)
• Mother Machree (1928)
• Four Sons (1928)
• Hangman's House (1928)
• Speakeasy (1929)
• The Black Watch (1929)
• Noah's Ark (1929)
• Words and Music (1929)
• Salute (1929)
• The Forward Pass (1929)

1930s

• Men Without Women (1930)
• Born Reckless (1930)
• Rough Romance (1930)
• Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
• The Big Trail (1930)
• Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
• Three Girls Lost (1931)
• Arizona (1931)
• The Deceiver (1931)
• Range Feud (1931)
• Maker of Men (1931)
• The Voice of Hollywood No. 13 (1932) (short subject)
• Running Hollywood (1932) (short subject)
• The Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
• Texas Cyclone (1932)
• Two-Fisted Law (1932)
• Lady and Gent (1932)
• The Hurricane Express (1932)
• The Hollywood Handicap (1932) (short subject)
• Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
• That's My Boy (1932)
• The Big Stampede (1932)
• Haunted Gold (1932)
• The Telegraph Trail (1933)
• The Three Musketeers (1933)
• Central Airport (1933)
• Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
• His Private Secretary (1933)
• The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
• Baby Face (1933)
• The Man From Monterey (1933)
• Riders of Destiny (1933)
• College Coach (1933)
• Sagebrush Trail (1933)
• The Lucky Texan (1934)
• West of the Divide (1934)
• Blue Steel (1934)
• The Man from Utah (1934)
• Randy Rides Alone (1934)
• The Star Packer (1934)
• The Trail Beyond (1934)
• The Lawless Beyond (1934)
• 'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
• Texas Terror (1935)
• Rainbow Valley (1935)
• The Desert Trail (1935)
• The Dawn Rider (1935)
• Paradise Canyon (1935)
• Westward Ho (1935)
• The New Frontier (1935)
• Lawless Range (1935)
• The Oregon Trail (1936)
• The Lawless Nineties (1936)
• King of the Pecos (1936)
• The Lonely Trail (1936)
• Winds of the Wasteland (1936)
• Sea Spoilers (1936)
• Conflict (1936)
• California Straight Ahead! (1937)
• I Cover the War (1937)
• Idol of the Crowds (1937)
• Adventure's End (1937)
• Born to the West (1937)
• Pals of the Saddle (1938)
• Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
• Santa Fe Stampede (1938)
• Red River Range (1938)
• Stagecoach (1939)
• The Night Riders (1939)
• Three Texas Steers (1939)
• Wyoming Outlaw (1939)
• New Frontier (1939)
• Allegheny Uprising (1939)

1940s

• ' (1940) (short subject)
• Three Faces West (1940)
• The Long Voyage Home (1940)
• Seven Sinners (1940)
• A Man Betrayed (1941)
• Lady from Louisiana (1941)
• The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
• ' (1941) (short subject)
• Lady for a Night (1942)
• Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
• The Spoilers (1942)
• In Old California (1942)
• Flying Tigers (1942)
• Pittsburgh (1942)
• Reunion in France (1942)
• A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
• In Old Oklahoma (1943)
• The Fighting Seabees (1944)
• Tall in the Saddle (1944)
• Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
• Back to Bataan (1945)
• They Were Expendable (1945)
• Dakota (1945)
• Without Reservations (1946)
• Angel and the Badman (1947) (also producer)
• Tycoon (1947)
• Red River (1948)
• Fort Apache (1948)
• 3 Godfathers (1948)
• Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
• The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) (also producer)
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
• ' (1949) (short subject)
• Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

1950s

• Rio Grande (1950)
• ' (1951) (short subjects)
• Operation Pacific (1951)
• The Screen Director (1951) (short subject)
• ' (1951) (short subject)
• Flying Leathernecks (1951)
• Miracle in Motion (1952) (short subject) (narrator)
• The Quiet Man (1952)
• Big Jim McLain (1952) (also producer)
• Trouble Along the Way (1953)
• Island in the Sky (1953) (also producer)
• Hondo (1953) (also producer)
• The High and the Mighty (1954) (also producer)
• The Sea Chase (1955)
• ' (1955) (short subject)
• Blood Alley (1955) (also director and producer)
• The Conqueror (1956)
• The Searchers (1956)
• The Wings of Eagles (1957)
• Jet Pilot (1957)
• Legend of the Lost (1957)
• I Married a Woman (1958) (Cameo)
• The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
• Rio Bravo (1959)
• The Horse Soldiers (1959)

1960s

• The Alamo (1960) (also director and producer)
• North to Alaska (1960)
• The Challenge of Ideas (1961) (short subject) (narrator)
• The Comancheros (1961) (also director)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• Hatari! (1962)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• How the West Was Won (1962)
• McLintock! (1963)
• Donovan's Reef (1963)
• Circus World (1964)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
• In Harm's Way (1965)
• The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
• Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
• El Dorado (1966)
• A Nation Builds Under Fire (1967) (short subject) (narrator)
• The War Wagon (1967)
• The Green Berets (1968) (also director)
• Hellfighters (1968)
• True Grit (1969)
• The Undefeated (1969)

1970s

• No Substitute for Victory (1970) (documentary)
• Chisum (1970)
• Rio Lobo (1970)
• Big Jake (1971) (also co-director)
• Directed by John Ford (1971) (documentary)
• The Cowboys (1972)
• Cancel My Reservation (1972) (Cameo)
• The Train Robbers (1973)
• Cahill U.S. Marshall (1973)
• McQ (1974)
• Brannigan (1975)
• Rooster Cogburn (1975)
• ' (1976) (documentary) (narrator)
• The Shootist (1976)