John Wayne is certainly a Western icon, responsible for a number of classics, but Clint Eastwood has him beat as the genre’s ...

John Wayne was suffering from serious health issues when shooting Big Jake, but continued to insist on doing his own stunts ...

John Wayne wasn't pleasantly surprised when a film he considered to be one of his worst became a success. Instead, he was ...

By the time he briefly crossed paths with ‘The Duke’ during the development of 1964’s Circus World, he was already a legend.

“Whilst filming a scene where the main tent catches fire, John Wayne was almost killed when the set collapsed. As he was ‘fighting’ the fire, Duke was to be cued by the assistant director when to ...

John Wayne was left with a peculiar predicament. He had no issue meeting people, but he did have to spend his life avoiding mirrors.

John Wayne made it to the Academy Awards three times over the course of his career. However, he only ultimately won a single golden statue. Wayne was “disappointed” that he didn’t get an ...

John Wayne was - and, 32 years after his death, still is - one of this country's most popular actors, ranking third just this year in a poll of America's favorite movie stars (after Johnny Depp ...

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy quite like John Wayne. Getting his start in B-movies in the 1930s, Wayne ...

Wayne and Hathaway’s final two movies together were their least successful ventures with 1957’s Legend of the Lost and 1964’s Circus World. John Wayne was very ‘particular’ about the ...