John Wayne hated the violence featured in a hit 1969 Western, which didn't stop him ripping it off two years later for his ...

In 1969, LIFE magazine captured the Western star — born May 26, 1907 — during the filming of the movie 'The Undefeated.' ...

Before he became one of Hollywood's biggest stars, John Wayne received top billing in an early Warner Bros. Western remake ...

'True Grit' movie star John Wayne once revealed that he didn't like Westerns on television compared to motion pictures for very specific reasons. Arness accidentally fell into acting after ...

Brokeback Mountain was released in 2005 and won three Oscars. It was also named the best film of the 21st century by The New ...

John Wayne signed with Warner Bros. to make 6 Westerns John Wayne | Getty Images. Wayne made his first leading performance in 1930’s The Big Trail, which was a box office bomb.

John Wayne turned down the chance to work with a director on 1940's 'North West Mounted Police' because he had previously ...

Born Marion Morrison in 1907, Hollywood screen actor John Wayne, who died in 1979, starred in countless westerns and became the very model of a movie cowboy, projecting a rugged, hyper-masculine ...

The most iconic of Wayne's many films, The Searchers is also considered by many film historians to be the finest American Western ever made. Likened to the tale of Odysseus by French New Wave ...