![]() Wayne's other well-known Western roles include a cattleman driving his herd north on the Chisholm Trail in Red River, a Civil War veteran whose young niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in The Searchers, and a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer for a woman's hand in marriage in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Eighty-three of his movies were Westerns, and in them he played cowboys, cavalrymen, and unconquerable loners extracted from the Republic's central creation myth." Biographer Ronald Davis said, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage. Wayne's career took off in 1939, with John Ford's Stagecoach making him an instant star. His first leading role came in Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail, which led to leading roles in numerous B movies throughout the 1930s, many of them in the Western genre. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he appeared mostly in small bit parts. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result of a bodysurfing accident. He was president of Glendale High class of 1925. ![]() ![]() An Academy Award-winner for True Grit, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades.īorn in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne grew up in Southern California. Marion Mitchell Morrison, known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker.
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