The American hero John Wayne said he’d rather die than play onscreen: “That stupid idiot?”
And he didn’t.
John Wayne Archives: 03/2026
“Duke, you ruined my career!”: John Wayne may have betrayed his protégé, but they got the last laugh
The student became the master.
“I’m gonna kill him”: The director John Wayne loathed working with and hey problematic movie they made together
“They had nothing in common”.
The murder trial that called John Wayne as a witness: “She was getting a better part in the movie”
Testimony from ‘The Duke’.
“The set collapsed”: The movies that almost killed John Wayne, and the awful one that did
His luck ran out eventually.
“I’d been told horror stories”: John Wayne’s only British director was terrified of working with him
His reputation preceded him.
“The best in the world”: John Wayne’s favourite actor of all time
“Just his facial expressions alone are enough to crack you up.”