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American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in The Big Trail (1930), an epic Western shot in an early widescreen process ...
Marion Robert Morrison [1] [a] (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.
BBC Radio Swindon outputs from the renamed BBC Radio Wiltshire begin. 15 December – BBC Radio 4 Extra is launched as BBC7. 2003. 9 February – BBC Three is launched at 19:00 in a simulcast with BBC Two. It replaces BBC Choice. 8 December – BBC News 24 is relaunched with a new set and titles, as well as a new Breaking News sting. Networked ...
[4] [5] Originally set up at 20th Century Fox, the project moved to Warner Bros.-7 Arts in August 1969 because John Wayne wanted to make the film that year, but Fox's production schedule was full. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Michael Wayne , John's son and the film's executive producer, took on the project of making Chisum because he felt the story summed ...
The 175-minute broadcast is the first showing of a full-length musical on television. 20 July – The Shaw play The Man of Destiny is shown on the BBC Television Service. 1 September – The anticipated outbreak of war brings television broadcasting at the BBC Television Service to an end at 12:35pm, after the airing of a Mickey Mouse cartoon ...
Batjac Productions is an independent film production company co-founded by John Wayne in 1952 as a vehicle for Wayne to both produce and star in movies. The first Batjac production was Big Jim McLain released by Warner Bros. in 1952, and its final film was McQ, in 1974, also distributed by Warner Bros.
Big Jake is a 1971 American Technicolor Western film starring John Wayne, Richard Boone and Maureen O'Hara.The picture was the final film for George Sherman in a directing career of more than 30 years, and Maureen O'Hara's last film with John Wayne and her last before her twenty-year retirement.
Dark Command is a 1940 Crime western film starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne and Walter Pidgeon loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War.Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W. R. Burnett, Dark Command is the only film in which western icons John Wayne and Roy Rogers appear together, and was the only film Wayne and Raoul Walsh made together since Walsh discovered ...