John wayne biography movies list

American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (–) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in The Big Trail (), an epic Western shot in an early widescreen process called Fox Grandeur, Ford vouched for him.^[a] Wayne's early period as a star would be brief.

Fox dropped him after only three leads. He then appeared in a string of low-budget action films (mostly Westerns) before garnering more recognition with the film Stagecoach.

During the s and early s, Wayne starred in Dark Command (), Reap the Wild Wind (), Wake of the Red Witch (), Fort Apache (), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (), Rio Grande (), and Red River ().

Some of his more notable war movies include Flying Tigers (), The Fighting Seabees (), They Were Expendable (), and Sands of Iwo Jima (), for whic