Despite filming while in poor health — and while recovering from a serious shoulder injury — Wayne powered through production of what would become the final film directed by his longtime collaborator, ...

In 1976, John Wayne was at the tail end of his career and his life. He left behind one final film, a western that mirrored his final days. It’s called The Shootist. The movie made Rotten Tomatoes’ ...

John Wayne is synonymous with the American Western. From his early days in low-budget cowboy and outlaw pictures to his decades-long collaboration with director John Ford, Wayne became an icon of ...

Before he was one of Hollywood's most iconic Western movie stars, actor John Wayne was an Iowa-born USC lineman named Marion Morrison. After losing his football scholarship to a bodysurfing injury, ...

John Wayne's only Academy Award came for his role as Deputy Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn in "True Grit," the 1969 film based on the novel of the same name by Arkansas native Charles Portis. A recently ...