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Marion Robert Morrison, known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed The Duke or Duke Wayne, was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films made during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.

Aliases
  • Marion Robert Morrison
  • Marion Michael Morrison
  • Duke Wayne
English
Filmography

Hollywood Without Make-Up

1963

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962
as Tom Doniphon

3 Godfathers

1948
as Robert Marmaduke Hightower

McLintock!

1963
as George Washington McLintock

The Barbarian and the Geisha

1958
as Townsend Harris

Rio Grande

1950
as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke

Rainbow Valley

1935
as John Martin

Texas Terror

1935
as John Higgins

The Forward Pass

1929
as Football Player

How the West Was Won

1962
as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

California Straight Ahead

1937
as Biff Smith

The Shadow of the Eagle

1932
as Craig McCoy

The Wings of Eagles

1957
as Frank W. 'Spig' Wead

The Alamo

1960
as Col. Davy Crockett

The New Frontier

1935
as John

The Man From Utah

1934
as John Weston

The Man from Monterey

1933
as Captain John Holmes

Without Reservations

1946
as Rusty Thomas

The Lawless Nineties

1936
as John Tipton

Blue Steel

1934
as John Carruthers

Two-Fisted Law

1932
as Duke

The Trail Beyond

1934
as Rod Drew

Angel and the Badman

1947
as Quirt Evans

Winds of the Wasteland

1936
as John Blair

Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend

1976
as Himself/Narrator

Young Duke

1930

Back to Bataan

1945
as Colonel Joseph Madden

Wyoming Outlaw

1939
as Stony Brooke

Hellfighters

1968
as Chance Buckman

The American West of John Ford

1971
as John Wayne

Raquel!

1970
as John Wayne

El Dorado

1966
as Cole Thornton

Reunion in France

1942
as Pat Talbot

Lady and Gent

1932
as Buzz Kinney

John Ford, l'homme qui inventa l'Amérique

2019
as John Wayne

The Green Berets

1968
as Colonel Mike Kirby

Tall in the Saddle

1944
as Rocklin

His Private Secretary

1933
as Dick Wallace

Amérique, notre histoire

2006
as John Wayne

West of the Divide

1934
as Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns

The Spoilers

1942
as Roy Glennister

Wake of the Red Witch

1948
as Capt. Ralls

Riders of Destiny

1933
as Singin' Sandy Saunders

Santa Fe Stampede

1938
as Stony Brooke

Screen Director's Playhouse

1955

Big Jim McLain

1952
as Jim McLain

The Selling Of The Pentagon

1971
as John Wayne

Flying Leathernecks

1951
as Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby

Rooster Cogburn

1975
as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn

'Neath the Arizona Skies

1934
as Chris Morrell

Born to the West

1937
as Dare Rudd

A Man Betrayed

1941
as Lynn Hollister

The War Wagon

1967
as Taw Jackson

Idol of the Crowds

1937
as Johnny Hanson

Bardelys the Magnificent

1926
as Guard

Red River

1948
as Thomas Dunson

Baby Face

1933
as Jimmy McCoy Jr.

Go West, Young Man!

2003
as John Wayne

A Lady Takes a Chance

1943
as Duke Hudkins

The Range Feud

1931
as Clint Turner

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949
as Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles

Operation Pacific

1951
as Lt Cmdr. Duke E. Gifford

La classe américaine

1993
as George Abitbol (Archive Footage)

Swing Out, Sweet Land

1970
as John Wayne

They Were Expendable

1945
as Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan

Jet Pilot

1957
as Col. Jim Shannon

True Grit

1969
as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn

Pittsburgh

1942
as Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham

The Night Riders

1939
as Stony Brooke

Haunted Gold

1932
as John Mason

The Fighting Kentuckian

1949
as John Breen

Screen Directors Playhouse: Rookie of the Year

1955
as Mike Cronin

John Wayne on Film

2016
as Self (archive footage)

Rio Bravo

1959
as Sheriff John T. Chance (Grant)

The Cowboys

1972
as Wil Andersen

The Dawn Rider

1935
as John Mason

Legend of the Lost

1957
as Joe January

The Searchers

1956
as Ethan Edwards

Three Faces West

1940
as John Phillips

The Quiet Man

1952
as Sean Thornton

The High and the Mighty

1954
as Dan Roman

The Sons of Katie Elder

1965
as John Elder

The Three Musketeers

1933
as Lt. Tom Wayne

The Star Packer

1934
as U.S. Marshal John Travers

Donovan's Reef

1963
as Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan

The Desert Trail

1935
as John Scott / John Jones

Desert Command

1946
as Tom Wayne

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

1991
as Himself (archive footage)

Cast a Giant Shadow

1966
as Gen. Mike Randolph

Paradise Canyon

1935
as John Wyatt

The Conqueror

1956
as Temujin, later Genghis Khan

Running Hollywood

1932
as Emcee

McQ

1974
as Det. Lt. Lon McQ

Flying Tigers

1942
as Jim Gordon

The Train Robbers

1973
as Lane

Three Texas Steers

1939
as Stony Brooke

King of the Pecos

1936
as John Clayborn

Island in the Sky

1953
as Captain Dooley

Lady from Louisiana

1941
as John Reynolds

Hangman's House

1928
as Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback

I Cover the War

1937
as Bob Adams

Tycoon

1947
as Johnny Munroe

Randy Rides Alone

1934
as Randy Bowers

Adventure's End

1937
as Duke Slade

Sands of Iwo Jima

1949
as Sgt John M Stryker

The Hurricane Express

1932
as The Air Pilot

Hondo

1953
as Hondo Lane

Lawless Range

1935
as John Middleton

Ride Him, Cowboy

1932
as John Drury

The Lawless Frontier

1934
as John Tobin

Lady for a Night

1942
as Jackson Morgan

The Comancheros

1961
as Jake Cutter

Flashing Spikes

1962

The Shootist

1976
as John Bernard Books

Brannigan

1975
as Lt. Jim Brannigan

Big Jake

1971
as Jacob McCandles

The Fighting Seabees

1944
as Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan

The Big Stampede

1932
as Deputy Sheriff John Steele

Western von gestern

1978
as verschiedene

Allegheny Uprising

1939
as Jim Smith

Dakota

1945
as John Devlin

Flame of Barbary Coast

1945
as Duke Fergus

In Old Oklahoma

1943
as Daniel F Somers

The Lonely Trail

1936
as Captain John Ashley

Ca détourne

1992
as MC François

Sea Spoilers

1936
as Bob Randall

The Fabulous Allan Carr

2017
as John Wayne

The Deceiver

1931
as Richard Thorpe as a corpse

The Hurricane Express (1932)

as Larry Baker

Maker of Men

1931
as Dusty Rhodes

Dark Command

1940
as Bob Seton

The Horse Soldiers

1959
as Col John Marlowe

In Old California

1942
as Tom Craig

The Shootist: The Legend Lives On

2001
as John Bernard Books

The Lucky Texan

1934
as Jerry Mason

The Sea Chase

1955
as Captain Karl Ehrlich

Cahill U.S. Marshal

1973
as J.D. Cahill

Three Girls Lost

1931
as Gordon Wales

Fort Apache

1948
as Capt. Kirby York

In Harm's Way

1965
as Capt. Rockwell Torrey

North to Alaska

1960
as Sam McCord

CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years

1976
as John Wayne

The Longest Day

1962
as Col. Benjamin Vandervoort

Somewhere in Sonora

1933
as John Bishop

The Telegraph Trail

1933
as John Trent

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965
as Centurion at crucifixion

Red River Range

1938
as Stony Brooke

Chisum

1970
as John Simpson Chisum

Louise Brooks

1986
as Stony Brooke

Pals of the Saddle

1938
as Stony Brooke

Texas Cyclone

1932
as Steve Pickett

New Frontier

1939
as Stony Brooke

Blood Alley

1955
as Capt. Tom Wilder

John Wayne, l'Amérique à tout prix

2019
as John Wayne

Girls Demand Excitement

1931
as Peter Brooks

The Three Musketeers

1933
as Lt. Tom Wayne

No Substitute for Victory

1970
as Himself

Arizona

1931
as Lt. Bob Denton

Trouble Along the Way

1953
as Stephen Aloysius Williams

Omnibus: John Ford, Part One

1992
as Self - Actor

Rio Lobo

1970
as Colonel Cord McNally

The Life of Jimmy Dolan

1933
as Smith

The Undefeated

1969
as Colonel John Henry Thomas

Stagecoach

1939
as The Ringo Kid

Reap the Wild Wind

1942
as Capt. Jack Stuart

John Ford & Monument Valley

2013
as Himself (archive footage)

Hatari!

1962
as Sean Mercer

Westward Ho

1935
as John Wyatt

The Long Voyage Home

1940
as Ole Olsen

The Big Trail

1930
as Breck Coleman

Seven Sinners

1940
as Lieutenant Dan Brent

The Shepherd of the Hills

1941
as Young Matt

Sagebrush Trail

1933
as John Brant

Circus World

1964
as Matt Masters

Director

Movie The Alamo 1960
Movie The Green Berets 1968
Movie The Comancheros 1961

Producer

Movie The Alamo 1960
Movie Angel and the Badman 1947
Movie Bullfighter and the Lady 1951
Movie Seven Men from Now 1956
Movie The Fighting Kentuckian 1949
Movie Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen 1951
Movie Good-bye, My Lady 1956
Movie The Train Robbers 1973
Movie The High and the Mighty 1954
Movie Island in the Sky 1953
Movie Hondo 1953
Movie Track of the Cat 1954
Movie Big Jake 1971
Movie Blood Alley 1955

Crew

Movie Mother Machree 1927
Series John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise 2021

Guest Star

Episode The Red Skelton Show
Hominy and True Grits 		1969
Episode The Dean Martin Show
John Wayne / Bill Cosby / Joey Heatherton 		1966
Episode The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Scrapbook 		1966
Episode Maude
Maude Meets the Duke 		1974
Episode C.P.O. Sharkey
Mr. Warmth 		1975
Episode Discovering Film
Discovering John Wayne 		2014
Episode Screen Director's Playhouse
Rookie of the Year 		1955
Episode The Dean Martin Show
John Wayne / Peggy Lee / Jack Jones 		1965
Episode The Jack Benny Program
Everything You Wanted to Know About Jack Benny 		1971
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Carson Country 		1970
Episode I Love Lucy
Lucy and John Wayne 		1955
Episode The Monkees
Glen Campbells Goodtime Hour 		1969
Episode The Merv Griffin Show
Nov 21 1970 John Wayne 		1970
Episode I Love Lucy
CBS Salutes Lucy: the First 25 Years 		1976
Episode Gunsmoke
Matt Gets It 		1955
Episode Wagon Train
The Colter Craven Story 		1960
Episode The Beverly Hillbillies
The Indians Are Coming 		1967