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The filmography of John Wayne from 1961 to 1976. John Wayne also acted in many films from 1926–1940 and 1941–1960.
Overview
In the 1960s and 1970s, John Wayne ranked as an American icon and one of the top box office attractions in the cinema. Wayne's output of films consisted largely of westerns but he also ventured into other genres as well, including several films dealing with World War II (notably The Longest Day and In Harm's Way).
Wayne's hawkish political views came under harsh attack from film critics with the release of The Green Berets (1968), which Wayne produced and directed as well as starred in. The following year, however, he would be praised by critics for his performance in True Grit, which would earn him an Academy Award for Best Actor.
John Wayne made his last film, The Shootist in 1976, bringing an end to a remarkable career that spanned more than 50 years and over 180 motion pictures.
Studio name abbreviations
Studio Name | Abbreviation | Studio Name | Abbreviation | |
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Alaska Pictures | AK | Paramount Pictures | Par | |
American Film Institute | AFI | Samuel Bronston | SB | |
Batjac | Batjac | Sigma | Sig | |
Dino De Laurentiis | DDL | 20th Century-Fox | 20th | |
Levy-Gardner | L-G | Universal Pictures | Uni | |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | MGM | Warner Bros. | WB | |
National General | NG | United Artists | UA |
Filmography (1961–1976)
Posthumous filmography
In 1993, Wayne appeared posthumously as George Abitbol, the central character in the French television film La Classe américaine. The film, the story of which revolves around an investigation of Abitbol's death, consists entirely in cut-and-pasted extracts from other films, dubbed with new lines in French and transformed into a new story. Raymond Loyer, who had dubbed Wayne into French in his previous films, returned to do so one last time.
# | Title | Studio | Role | Director | Notes | ||
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185 | La Classe américaine | Canal+ Group | George Abitbol, "the classiest man in the world" | Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette |
The film is an irreverent comedy, which pokes gentle fun at the genre of Wayne's previous films, and at Warner Bros. films in general. |
Wayne's box office popularity
The following list is from the Motion Pictures Herald's annual poll of film exhibitors to determine the year's "Top Ten Stars." With one exception (1958), John Wayne appeared on the list every time from 1949 to 1973, indicating that he was one of cinema's most durable stars.
The period covered in this section is 1961 to 1976.
Footnotes
- ^ Produced by United States Information Agency
- ^ Reputedly Curtiz was extremely ill during of the shooting and, as a result, the majority of the film was directed by Wayne, who refused to take credit.
- ^ Stewart received top billing over Wayne in the film's advertisements, but Wayne has top billing in the film's opening credits.
- ^ Wayne had originally played Sherman in an episode of the TV series Wagon Train entitled "The Colton Craven Story." That episode was directed by John Ford.
- ^ Technicolor prints were apparently used for only the Cinerama presentation while general release print used Metrocolor.
- ^ Aside from the documentary Chesty: Tribute to a Legend (1976).
- ^ Walker's mother, actress Jennifer Jones, made her film debut opposite Wayne in New Frontier (1939).
- ^ Vera Miles appeared in some scenes as Wayne's wife, but these were cut from the final print.
- ^ Plimpton made a TV documentary about the making of this film. In this documentary, entitled "Shoot-out at Rio Lobo," Wayne, by accident, would frequently refer to Plimpton as "Pimpleton."
- ^ Warren Oates would play Cogburn in a 1978 television movie entitled True Grit: A Further Adventure.
References
- Boswell, John, & Jay David. The John Wayne Album. New York , NY. Ballantine Books, 1979.
- Eyles, Allan. John Wayne. New York, NY. A.S. Barnes and Co., 1979.