No matter how much you love Westerns, there's no denying that Wayne did some of his best work when he took off his cowboy hat and squinted toward a new horizon.

Born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa on May 26, 1907, he took the stage name John Wayne for his movies, but was also lovingly known as The Duke. He was movie star royalty and became one of the most ...

There were no small parts in a John Wayne movie. Though John Wayne is the most recognizable of these performers, he was neither the first nor the longest-tenured of these Western stars.