(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."

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.

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)

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.

He appeared in at least one film for every year from 1926-76, a record of 51 consecutive years. He did not act in a movie in 1975, though both Brannigan (1975) and Rooster Cogburn (1975) were released in that year. During the filming of The Undefeated (1969), he fell from his horse and fractured three ribs.

Famous quotes in English

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 ...

Sir Winston Churchill "If you're going through hell, keep going." "There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true." "The price of greatness is responsibility." "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

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.

Quotes by Famous People

• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -
• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -
• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -