Jump To John Wayne Links: 1. Box Office 2. Oscar Movies 3. Reviews 4. Trailers 5. Trivia 6. UMR Table
John Wayne made 88 movies before becoming a star in 1939’s Stagecoach. From Stagecoach to 1976’s The Shootist, Wayne made another 82 movies. That is a grand total of 170 movies in his career. John Wayne was the first movie star that I became aware of as a child. I still remember the shock of watching him die in The Alamo (my older brother had told me he was going to survive…he obviously lied to me). For nearly forty years, Wayne was one of the most popular stars making movies.
John Wayne’s IMDb page shows 180 acting credits from 1926-1976. The following table only lists about half of John Wayne’s movies. Cameos, television appearances, and almost all of his B westerns from the 1930s were not included in the rankings. His remaining 94 movies are ranked by 6 different columns of sortable information.
John Wayne Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
John Wayne Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- If movie title is a blue, then there is a John Wayne movie trailer attached to the page link
- Sort John Wayne movies by co-stars or in some cases directors
- Sort John Wayne movies by adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort John Wayne movies by box office rank in the year of release
- Sort John Wayne movies by how the movie was received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each John Wayne movie received.
- Sort John Wayne movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Use the search and sort buttons to make this table very interactive.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above John Wayne Table
1. 51 John Wayne movies crossed the magical $100 million mark. That is a percentage of 54.26% of his movies listed. His top domestic box office hit was The Longest Day (1963).
2. An average John Wayne movie grosses $124.30 million in adjusted box office gross.
3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 55 John Wayne movies are rated as good movies…or 65.47% of his movies. His highest rated movie is 1959’s Rio Bravo. His lowest rated movie is The Conqueror (1956).
4. 24 John Wayne movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 28.23% of his movies.
5. 9 John Wayne movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.71% of his movies.
6. A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00 or higher. 61 John Wayne movies scored higher that average….or 71.76% of his movies. True Grit (1969) got the highest UMR Score. Brannigan (1975) got the lowest UMR Score.
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Wouldn’t “Cahill United States Marshall” be #44 of 1973?
Hey Dan you are 100% correct. I must have screwed that up when I was updating this page. Thanks for the catch. I am going to have to go to a written warning for my proof readers…..lol.
Hard to believe “The Cowboys” ranked #61 on this list.
Wow….I made a huge mistake….I went and looked at my Cowboys page….seems I transposed a 72% rotten tomatoes score with a 27% score….just fixed that….and The Cowboys went from 61st to 18th when looking at critics and audience rating. Thanks for the catch. My page has had over 100,000 views but nobody had mentioned that…glad that 5 year error has been fixed.
Say, that’s a rather sizable screwup, Bruce! LOL! I’ve made bigger ones in my day. I just couldn’t imagine some of Wayne’s B-pictures being ranked higher than “The Cowboys.” Actually, that movie is #1 on my list of Wayne’s films, and I think I’ve seen just about every one. A clip of Wayne sauntering into Slim Pickens’s tavern should be enshrined somewhere as the essence of pure Wayne. Good talking to ya, Bruce.
Hey Terry…I agree a pretty big screw up. I would say of his movies in the 1970s….The Cowboys and The Shootist are my favorite. But thanks to you The Cowboy is up where it belongs. I aware of that clip you are talking about…classic Wayne. Once again thanks for the catch.
Hey Kenneth…..Rio Bravo is one of his greatest movies. Ranked 2nd according to critics and audiences…..and his 10th biggest hit. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
Thank you! That was very interesting
Thank you Ross….I appreciate those kind words.
LOVE RIO BRAVO WITH WALTER BRENNAN, RICKY NELSON, WARD BOND, JOHN RUSSEL, CLAUDE ATKINS, DEAN MARTIN