Wayne played Col. Davy Crockett to help gain financing and sell the film to audiences. Crockett met his end from a combination of a lance and explosion. John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty ...

The best movie Wayne starred in that’s not a Western is “The Quiet Man,” released in 1952. Here are some details: — Combined score: 2.63 — #593 highest out of 17,179 movies in all genres ...

Born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa on May 26, 1907, he took the stage name John Wayne for his movies, but was also lovingly known as The Duke. He was movie star royalty and became one of the most ...

Movie star John Wayne and director John Ford became one of the most iconic filmmaker and actor duos ever to move through Hollywood. It all started with their fateful meeting when Wayne worked as a ...

In 1926, according to what John Wayne wrote in his unfinished autobiography manuscript, he was assigned to “herd geese” on the set of a Ford film when the animals would stray from their ...