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It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy ...

The partnership between John Wayne and Ward Bond was more than just a professional collaboration, it was a friendship.

Chisum was John Wayne's first movie of the 1970s, the Western legend's final decade. Having had a cancerous lung removed a few years earlier, Duke had to rely on an oxygen mask and hide his ...

Despite his health problems on the movie, Wayne refused to delay filming and strived forward. Ann-Margret had fond memories of her co-star’s tenacity during this period. Ann-Margret recalled ...

There aren't many figures bigger than John Wayne. One of the most iconic leading men of his era, there was no one else in Hollywood like him—but there was a chilling darkness to this legendary figure.

Actor Jack Merrill has some ideas about why he survived a harrowing encounter with serial killer John Wayne Gacy. In his one-man show The Save, a performance of which was attended by Us Weekly on ...

When the three pitched potential names for the restaurant, there was a common name: Wayne. For Seitzler, his brother’s nickname was John Wayne; Collings’s grandfather was named Wayne.

Saddle up for a trip through entertainment history with a weekly highlight from Santa Clarita’s Walk of Western Stars! This week, actor William S. Hart.