This
page is my tribute to one of my favorite Western actors. Even
now, more than 20 years after his death I still love to watch
his old western movies. My special favorite is "Stagecoach".
It was an great lost when John Wayne died at the age of 72 years
old...
John
Wayne or Marion Robert Morrison, which was his real name was
born on may 26, 1907 in a small town in Winterset, Iowa. His
parents was Clyde and Mary Morrison. He also had a little brother
named Robert Morrison. john Wayne was married three times, Josephine
Saenze, Esperanza Bauer and Pilar Wayne. And he had seven children
four with Josephine and three with Pilar. He made his first
movie in 1926, but the first real lead role was in 1930 when
he made made the western movie "The Big Trail". John
participated in more than 250 movies. and in 1939 he got his
real breakthrough role as Ringo kid in John Fords western movie
"Stagecoach". In 1969 he won an Oscar for his role
as the one-eyed sheriff in "True Grit". John Wayne
made a lot of other movies beside the western. Movies such as
"Flying Tigers", The fighting Seabees" but it's
the western movies most people remember him from. The last movie
he mad was also an western, "The Shootist" in 1976.
Three years later on June 11,1979 John Wayne died of cancer
in a hospital in Los Angeles, California. But through his movies
he will always be remembered as the true American hero...
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STAGECOACH
- 1939
starring John Wayne as Ringo Kid
directed by John Ford |
TRUE GRIT - 1969
starring John wayne as Rooster Cogburn
directed by Stuart Millar |
THE SHOOTIST - 1979
starring John Wayne as J.B Books
directed by Don Siegel |
