John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist of English, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry. Due to Clyde's lung condition, the family moved to southern California to try their hand at ranching in the Mojave Desert.
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💰 Net worth
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Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
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$10 /day |
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The Big Trail (1930)
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$75 /week |
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Three Girls Lost (1931)
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$200 /week |
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The Deceiver (1931)
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$350 /week |
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The Range Feud (1931)
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$350 /week |
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Maker of Men (1931)
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$350 /week |
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 13 (Second Series) (1932)
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$200 |
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The Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
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$675 |
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Texas Cyclone (1932)
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$350 /week |
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Two-Fisted Law (1932)
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$350 /week |
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The Hurricane Express (1932)
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$675 |
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Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
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$1,500 |
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The Big Stampede (1932)
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$1,500 |
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Haunted Gold (1932)
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$1,500 |
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The Telegraph Trail (1933)
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$1,500 |
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The Three Musketeers (1933)
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$500 |
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Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
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$1,500 |
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
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$1,500 |
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His Private Secretary (1933)
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$150 per week |
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Baby Face (1933)
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$1,500 |
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The Man from Monterey (1933)
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$1,500 |
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Westward Ho (1935)
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$6,000 |
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Sea Spoilers (1936)
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$6,000 |
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California Straight Ahead! (1937)
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$6,000 |
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I Cover the War! (1937)
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$6,000 |
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Idol of the Crowds (1937)
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$6,000 |
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Adventure's End (1937)
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$6,000 |
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Stagecoach (1939)
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$3,700 |
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Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
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$25,000 |
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Without Reservations (1946)
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$68,000 |
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Fort Apache (1948)
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$110,000 |
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Red River (1948)
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$75,000 + percentage of gross |
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Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
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$75,000 + 10% of gross |
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Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
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$180,000 + 10% of gross |
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Flying Leathernecks (1951)
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$300,000 |
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The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
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$700,000 |
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Rio Bravo (1959)
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$750,000 |
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The Horse Soldiers (1959)
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$750,000 |
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The Horse Soldiers (1959)
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$500,000 |
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The Horse Soldiers (1959)
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$750,000 + 20% of the gross |
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North to Alaska (1960)
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$750,000 + 10% of gross |
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The Comancheros (1961)
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$750,000 + 10% of gross |
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The Longest Day (1962)
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$250,000 |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
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$250,000 |
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The War Wagon (1967)
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$1,000,000 + % of gross |
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The Green Berets (1968)
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$1,000,000 |
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Hellfighters (1968)
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$1,000,000 |
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Rio Lobo (1970)
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$1,000,000 |
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Brannigan (1975)
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$500,000 |
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The Shootist (1976)
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$750,000 |
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern California, where they tried ranching in the Mojave Desert. Until the ranch failed, Marion and his younger brother Robert E. Morrison swam in an irrigation ditch and rode a horse to school. When the ranch failed, the family moved to Glendale, California, where Marion delivered medicines for his father, sold newspapers and had an Airedale dog named "Duke" (the source of his own nickname). He did well at school both academically and in football. When he narrowly failed admission to Annapolis he went to USC on a football scholarship 1925-7. Tom Mix got him a summer job as a prop man in exchange for football tickets. On the set he became close friends with director John Ford for whom, among others, he began doing bit parts, some billed as John Wayne. His first featured film was Men Without Women (1930). After more than 70 low-budget westerns and adventures, mostly routine, Wayne's career was stuck in a rut until Ford cast him in Stagecoach (1939), the movie that made him a star. He appeared in nearly 250 movies, many of epic proportions. From 1942-43 he was in a radio series, "The Three Sheets to the Wind", and in 1944 he helped found the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a Conservative political organization, later becoming its President. His conservative political stance was also reflected in The Alamo (1960), which he produced, directed and starred in. His patriotic stand was enshrined in The Green Berets (1968) which he co-directed and starred in. Over the years Wayne was beset with health problems. In September 1964 he had a cancerous left lung removed; in March 1978 there was heart valve replacement surgery; and in January 1979 his stomach was removed. He received the Best Actor nomination for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and finally got the Oscar for his role as one-eyed Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969). A Congressional Gold Medal was struck in his honor in 1979. He is perhaps best remembered for his parts in Ford's cavalry trilogy - Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950).
