In a genre of Westerns, tough guys and quiet men, one cowboy stands alone. John Wayne, the no-nonsense American hero of more than 200 films, has enduring appeal, largely because “he speaks for a ...

John Wayne and Ron Howard worked together on The Shootist, and Wayne wanted the pair to reunite for another project that ...

All the vintage photos serve as a portal to the past for the actor’s fans and his family, to a time when John Wayne wasn’t one of the biggest stars in the world, but rather a man who loved the ...

John Wayne — born 110 years ago, on May 26, 1907 — embodied a very particular kind of American hero. In 1969, in the wake of what LIFE called a “splendid performance” in True Grit, the ...

John Wayne adjusting a fellow actor's beret in the foreground on the set of "The Green Berets," which opened in theaters June 1968. (Tom Self / The Birmingham News) Alabama Media Group ...

See a photo gallery of Stern’s images of John Wayne. Born in 1919 in Philadelphia, Stern began his career in his teens freelancing for Look, Life and Colliers, magazines.

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 ...

As a boy known as Marion Morrison, the internationally-known screen actor lived at 717 Jackson Street while he attended kindergarten and first grade at the Brooklyn School, back in 1913-1914.