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2 days ago · Some of his more notable war movies include Flying Tigers (1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944), They Were Expendable (1945), and Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor .
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3 days ago · The John Wayne movie that saw him star alongside an underground icon of gay Hollywood. Tom Leatham @leafcine. Sun 4 August 2024 17:08, UK. Throughout his career, John Wayne made it vociferously clear that he was a man who had staunch conservative views. The Duke was frequently the target of liberal criticism, mostly owing to the way he ...
4 days ago · While there are nine films in which John Wayne's character is confirmed to have died on screen, there are five films in which his character dies in the background, off-screen, or his fate is left ambiguous. Wayne's early work in movies was when many of his questionable character deaths occurred.
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5 days ago · 8. True Grit (1969) - 7.4/10. This movie was a godsend for John Wayne, who lobbied for the lead role of one-eyed US Marshal Rooster Cogburn after reading Charles Portis’ novel of the same name.
3 days ago · John Wayne fronted 80 Westerns during his long career, ranging from evergreen greats like The Searchers to lesser outings like Rio Lobo. Even as the genre's fortunes waned moving into the 1970s, Wayne was one of the few stars still fronting Westerns, including his final film, The Shootist.
3 days ago · He appeared as the character Little George in the John Wayne movie, The Undefeated, with Rams teammate Roman Gabriel, in 1969. In 1970, he appeared once on Petticoat Junction , playing mountaineer Merlin Fergus in the episode "With This Ring".
5 days ago · True Grit is a 1969 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, Glen Campbell as La Boeuf and Kim Darby as Mattie Ross. It is the first film adaptation of Charles Portis ' 1968 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Marguerite Roberts.
