After True Grit, John Wayne was offered another big-time Western, but he turned it down and missed out on the chance for a ...

John Wayne believed there was one role he was truly born to play - a character that became one of the most memorable parts of ...

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 ...

While working there, director Raoul Walsh saw a star quality in him and decided to cast John Wayne in The Big Trail, making it his first leading role in any movie. The Big Trail was 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 ...

Origins: The role of Matt Dillon was never offered to John Wayne. Wayne, like many other film actors of the time, considered television an upstart medium unworthy of his talents. When CBS decided ...

According to Scott Ryman’s John Wayne: The Life and Legend, the star did have cancer again in 1975, but had gone into remission before filming began on his last movie.

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 ...