(1970s) Series of regional TV commercials for Great Western Savings Bank. (1970s) Spoken word album: "America, Why I Love Her". (1999) TV commercial (in computerized, virtual image): Coors Beer.

John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) made Wayne a mainstream star, and he starred in 142 motion pictures altogether. According to one biographer, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage."

Batjac Productions is an independent film production company co-founded by John Wayne in 1952 as a vehicle for Wayne to both produce and star in movies. The first Batjac production was Big Jim McLain released by Warner Bros. in 1952, and its final film was McQ, in 1974, also distributed by Warner Bros.

10 of the Best John Wayne Quotes

• "A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him." "If everything isn't black-and-white, I say why the hell not?"
• "I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted.
• "A man ought to do what he thinks is best." - Hondo (1953)
• "A big mouth don't make a big man." - The Cowboys (1972)

2 True Grit (1969) The film earned Wayne his first and only Academy Award for Best Actor. To this day, the film is regarded as a truly iconic film of the Western genre. While the 21-century remake is excellent, True Grit stands as perhaps Wayne's most iconic role.

He was a major star from the 1940s to the 1970s. Wayne is most famous for his work in one of America's greatest native art forms, the Western movie. In more than 200 films made over 50 years, he also made a surprising variety of other kinds of films.

Famous quotes in English

"It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge." "Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse." "There never was a horse that couldn't be rode; never was a cowboy who couldn't be throwed." "Don't squat with your spurs on."

Wayne was America's cowboy. He was the war effort on film. He worked to root out communists in Hollywood. He was a man who believed in patriotism when many Americans tried to give that a bad name.

The Humor. The thing that made Wayne's World succeed as a sketch is the same thing that made the movie succeed; it never strayed from the shtick. Wayne and Garth have the sense of humor of 12-year-old boys, and yet grown adults laugh because it's still funny.

John Wayne, byname Duke, original name Marion Michael Morrison (see Researcher's Note) , (born May 26, 1907, Winterset, Iowa, U.S. - died June 11, 1979, Los Angeles, California), major American motion-picture actor who embodied the image of the strong, taciturn cowboy or soldier and who in many ways personified the ...

A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War epic Gone with the Wind, as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time.