You've probably heard of Hollywood's most famous cowboy, John Wayne. Often referred to as "The Duke," Wayne starred in over 100 movies, many of them Westerns, over his 50-year career.

John Wayne, the iconic actor, was born in Iowa on this day in history, May 26, 1907 — and went on appear in a myriad of films, starring in dozens of Westerns over the years.

John Wayne's best war movies often reflected the wars around the time of filming, and just as in his Westerns, Wayne usually played the hero. Wayne tended to play patriotic characters in positions ...

John Wayne had a rule for the characters he played that he ended up breaking for the gritty 1974 Dirty Harry knock-off McQ.

In Fix's vast filmography, the most frequent occurrence is John Wayne movies — 26, to be exact — topping Ward Bond's 22 collaborations with The Duke. Three Lost Girls, a 1931 drama featuring a ...

Marisa Wayne, John Wayne’s daughter, and her brother Patrick Wayne, right, sign one of their father’s books for fans during NFR Cowboy Christmas at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Saturday ...

John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and a bunch of nitroglycerine in a Western heist movie – what’s not to love? In The War Wagon, Wayne and Douglas plan to rob the eponymous war wagon carrying $500,000 ...

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 ...

Actor John Wayne starred in a wide assortment of movies primarily rooted in the Western and war genres. He had a signature walk and a slow, booming voice that commanded moviegoers’ attention.

‘Fort Apache’ (1948) L-R: John Wayne as Capt. Kirby York, Grant Withers as Silas Meacham, and Henry Fonda as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday | Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images ...