The Shootist marked the final movie for screen legend John Wayne and worked as a perfect celebration of his legacy in the ...

John Wayne's final public appearance took place at the Academy Awards, where a severely weakened Duke tenaciously gave a touching speech while battling cancer.

John Wayne suffered from ill health for the last 15 years of his life, being hospitalised for two weeks with influenza on his last movie The Shootist. At one point, doctors were even unsure if ...

L-R: Paulette Goddard as Loxi Claiborne and John Wayne as Captain Jack Stuart ... The Shootist marked the last performance of Wayne’s career before his real-life death, which made this ...

The Duke alive again for science fiction? It may sound strange, but it’s true; John Wayne‘s last released performance, in a 1984 movie using footage shot before his death, is finally about to ...

Finally setting out on a cattle drive that he's spent the last decade eagerly ... His character in this movie may be named J.B. Books, but at this point, John Wayne was essentially playing himself.

Any fan of old westerns would probably say that the 1976 movie, The Shootist, was John Wayne’s last film. They’d be mistaken, according to Dave Burleson. Burleson, who played minor parts in ...

In his final film performance, Wayne plays a dying gunfighter who spends his last days ... performance in John Ford’s masterpiece, which many consider the greatest Western in movie history ...