John Wayne: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
(update links) |
(+Category:Producers; +Category:Directors using HotCat) |
||
Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
{{quote|"A day without blood is like a day without sunshine."}} |
{{quote|"A day without blood is like a day without sunshine."}} |
||
'''John Wayne''' (born Marion Michael Morrison, nicknamed |
'''John Wayne''' (born '''Marion Michael Morrison''', nicknamed '''Duke''') is considered by many to be the closest thing to the [[Rated "M" for Manly|epitome of manliness]] in his movies. For the most part, Wayne had two roles: he was either a cowboy or a soldier. It didn't matter which he was, though: he was John Wayne. |
||
A former college football star (a leg injury led to his well-known gait), Wayne got his start as a bit actor before John Ford cast him as a major player in the movie ''[[Stagecoach]]''. From there, he went on to appear in dozens of Westerns, including ''[[She Wore a Yellow Ribbon]]'', ''[[True Grit]]'', ''[[The Searchers]]'', and ''[[McLintock!]]''. Occasionally, he switched to being a soldier (assuming, as was the case in ''Ribbon'', he wasn't both at the same time), and his wartime roles include a paratrooper in ''[[The Longest Day]]''. |
A former college football star (a leg injury led to his well-known gait), Wayne got his start as a bit actor before John Ford cast him as a major player in the movie ''[[Stagecoach]]''. From there, he went on to appear in dozens of Westerns, including ''[[She Wore a Yellow Ribbon]]'', ''[[True Grit]]'', ''[[The Searchers]]'', and ''[[McLintock!]]''. Occasionally, he switched to being a soldier (assuming, as was the case in ''Ribbon'', he wasn't both at the same time), and his wartime roles include a paratrooper in ''[[The Longest Day]]''. |
||
Line 19: | Line 19: | ||
Orange County, California's airport is named after him. |
Orange County, California's airport is named after him. |
||
⚫ | |||
----- |
|||
⚫ | |||
* ''[[Stagecoach]]'' (1939): The one that put Wayne on the map, in which he plays the Ringo Kid, a criminal who turns himself in to a sheriff protecting a wagon party moving westward so that he can avenge the murders of his father and brother. |
* ''[[Stagecoach]]'' (1939): The one that put Wayne on the map, in which he plays the Ringo Kid, a criminal who turns himself in to a sheriff protecting a wagon party moving westward so that he can avenge the murders of his father and brother. |
||
* ''[[Fort Apache]]'' (1948): Wayne co-stars with [[Henry Fonda]] as Kirby Yorke, an officer long-experienced in dealing with the Apaches chafing under the martinetish ways of his new commander. |
* ''[[Fort Apache]]'' (1948): Wayne co-stars with [[Henry Fonda]] as Kirby Yorke, an officer long-experienced in dealing with the Apaches chafing under the martinetish ways of his new commander. |
||
Line 45: | Line 43: | ||
{{reflist}} |
{{reflist}} |
||
⚫ | |||
[[Category:Actors]] |
[[Category:Actors]] |
||
[[Category:Producers]] |
|||
[[Category:Directors]] |
|||
[[Category:Epic Movie]] |
[[Category:Epic Movie]] |
||
[[Category:The Fifties]] |
[[Category:The Fifties]] |
||
⚫ |