John Wayne and Ward Bond shared a 30-year friendship, spanning over 22 films - but it wasn't always plain sailing, as the ...

Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the ...

It took 15 years for John Wayne to achieve his goal of finishing The Alamo, a critically acclaimed Western where "the Duke" played a real-life hero. As one of the most well-known events associated ...

Having criticised the likes of Gary Cooper and Steven Spielberg, this is the movie John Wayne said "makes a mockery" of the ...

partial manuscript about his life. Despite this rocky beginning, however, their director, John Ford, saw potential for friendship. In what seemed like a scene from a movie, he locked Wayne and ...