John Wayne developed a key element of his image with the help of another veteran of the Western genre. "The Duke" was launched to stardom with his role as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach, a movie ...

John Wayne broke out onto the western scene in the late 1930s, but by the time Eastwood was becoming a household name for his ...

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 ...

John Ford was the filmmaker who first gave John Wayne a chance in Hollywood, but he also sabotaged Duke's career after films ...

But where Gene Autry and Roy Rogers would later thrive in the subgenre, Wayne was a disastrous fit. He couldn’t sing, ...