John Wayne Movies

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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.

Dean Martin, Walter Brennan & John Wayne in 1959's Rio Bravo
Dean Martin, Walter Brennan & John Wayne in 1959’s Rio Bravo

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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  1. Stats on 94 films for just one actor is pretty epic Bruce. Congrats on putting all this together. John Wayne was arguably the biggest movie star of his time, not the best actor but almost certainly the most popular.

    I’ve gathered up all the posters for my upcoming epic Top 100 Movie tribute to Marion Morrison, some of the artwork on his lesser known work is spectacular. And I don’t have to worry about finding all the grosses. [wink]

    Looking at your critics chart, it looks like we’ll have a similar top 5 or 6, maybe not the same order.

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    1. HOWDY AGAIN MR JOEL HIRSCHHORN 1 The loving care that has been given to expanding and making as comprehensive as possible this page of mine shows that your own Disciple at least appreciates me even if you do not. I guess that my page of stats is so full that that Mr. Posters Guy won’t even be bothered to look at it closely as he seems to have some aversion to box office figures. True he has just said some flattering things to your Underling and me but remember the crocodile often seems to be smiling.

      2 However any self-respecting film buff would treat your Apprentice’s page on me as an important historical document because it clearly illustrates how I rose from being a B movie star with westerns grossing as low as $15 million in your Pupil’s chart [Somewhere in Sonora] to a box office superstar who could churn out horse operas that could earn as high as $250 million or more in today’s money according to your Apprentice– for example Red River

      3 The figures that your Junior has produced are amazing and even we stars weren’t privy to many of them back in our heyday. So film historians and buffs owe your Apprentice a debt of gratitude for recognising the commercial contribution the stars of yesteryear have made to the film industry and for putting into an overall context the impact and popularity of our pictures.

      4 Though even the prolific Mr Cogerson can’t help that Brando critter, another of your victims, because they threw so much money at that lazy varmint after the porn Paris film and the Mafia picture that he exploited to insult the American people that he simply wouldn’t work and so your Understudy is stuck with more or less 37 movies and has little opportunity for expansion.

      5 Anyway let Mr Posters sneer all he wants at stats. As for me I just wanted to speak for myself because it’s time one of your victims had a say about your personal attacks on REAL movie people. Have a nice day.
      BIG JOHN

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      1. Hey The Duke. Thanks for such high praise on my John Wayne statistic page. This has been one of most popular pages ever…..that includes all three different websites….but here at UMR.com….it has been even more popular…..it only trails Pixar vs DreamWorks and Marvel vs DC movies.

        Joel did not rate Wayne too highly….but he has always been one of my favorites….years ago….my mom wrote to Wayne and we got a Wayne autograph back…..somehow….we have lost that autograph…..which is a shame….it was a photo of him and the dog from Hondo…..it used to be in my bottom drawer……it has not been seen in years…..sorry eyes tearing up….can’t type anymore….

        Ok….I have gathered myself. I think Steve likes the stats more each day….one day…he will see the light and like the light. Good feedback as always.

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    2. DEAR CAPTAIN VIDEO

      “Stats on 94 films for just one actor is pretty epic Bruce. Congrats on putting all this together. John Wayne was arguably the biggest movie star of his time, not the best actor but almost certainly the most popular.”

      I do not necessary disagree with that statement and indeed it would not be inappropriate for ME to articulate such beliefs but I am personally disappointed that YOU should go public with pronouncements like that. Do you really believe that Davy Crockett was greater than Moses?

      CHUCK HESTON

      WIKIPEDIA ON CAPTAIN VIDEO
      The long-running 1954 series, set in Earth’s distant future, tracked the adventures of a group of fighters for truth and justice, known as The Video Rangers. They were led by Captain Video (no first name ever was mentioned).

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      1. Hey Chuck…..I think Heston and Wayne are very similar thespians……did they ever appear in a photo together? Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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    3. Hey Steve.
      1. At 94 movies…this is the third biggest “thespian” page….trailing only Ray Milland’s 96 movies and Samuel L. Jackson’s 99 movies.
      2. Samuel L. Jackson will be hitting triple digits by the end of the year.
      3. Good way to describe the Duke…”not the best actor but almost certainly the most popular”
      ..he has always been one of my favorites.
      4. A 100 poster page….wow…..that is indeed going to be epic…..you will have to share that page on the many Facebook John Wayne pages out there…most of my traffic to my Wayne page comes from there.
      5. I wonder where you can find his box office grosses?….lol.
      6. Good to know we are in the same boat when looking at the review percentages.
      Thanks for checking out our latest Morrison update…..love having all of these trailers on the page.

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  2. Good Morning, I just watched Red River and the Horse Soldiers movie previews and enjoyed seeing the trailers. I have seen so many many John Wayne movies. Hard to tell which is my favorite one. Hey, as you know, I like to know the personal info such as marriages, children, etc. but you did not mention that. I am curious as to what his son Patrick Wayne is doing these days as I never see him…….thanks for improving all your sites as it makes it so much fun to see the trailers. THANK YOU. P.S. I plan to check out more of the trailers soon.

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    1. Hey Bern1960…..glad you are enjoying the inclusion of the videos. As for the John Wayne personal information….this was one of the first pages written….and at the time we were not doing the “Possibly Interesting Facts” section…..but….I just looked up his “marriage stats”….he was married 3 times and had 7 children. As for Patrick Wayne…he is now 78…..during his career he had 74 acting credits….but his last was 20 years ago…..so I think it is safe to say he is enjoying his retirement. Glad you plan on checking out more of our pages and our recently attached trailers.

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    1. Thank you Sam Faber. We have close to 1000 pages on our website….and our John Wayne page is our 3rd most popular page….so we are always looking to improve and update it.

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  4. HI AGAIN MR POSTERS
    You brought into our exchanges the greatest President and American who ever existed and I’m afraid in my last post I mixed up some of my own comments with those passed on to me by Mr President himself. The following is how the post should have read. Maybe you could ask that very nice W o C gal to order her husband to delete the previous post when he gets the time though he never seems to have much of that to spare. Sorry for any initial confusion

    1 Strange the number of people who keep turning up on this site that I thought were dead. We even get quoted to us silly criticisms of movies and stars from one of the Undead.
    Please don’t call me Frank because many people turn that into Frankie which used to be the colloquial nickname for that Monster fella. As it is enough people think I’m too pally with a great Leader whom they wrongly seem to regard as a bit of as a political CREEP and Mr Nixon’s detractors even nicknamed as CREEP his Committee to Re-elect the President back in the early 1970s . Call me Checkers as that cute little doggy saved my friend Dick’s political career the way little Asta saved other careers.

    “RICHARD NIXON AND THE CHECKERS SPEECH [From Wikipedia]
    The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by the Republican candidate for vice president of the United States, California Senator Richard Nixon. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses. With his place on the Republican ticket in doubt, he flew to Los Angeles and delivered a half-hour television address in which he defended himself, attacked his opponents, and urged the audience to contact the Republican National Committee (RNC) to tell it whether he should remain on the ticket. During the speech, he stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to keep one gift: a black-and-white dog who had been named Checkers by the Nixon children, thus giving the address its popular name and forcing Eisenhower to keep him on the Presidential ticket.”

    2 I can only hope that that weepy fella Bruce who you seem to think cries bucket loads over Brian’s Song doesn’t collapse into the waterworks when he is reminded of this speech. It certainly tugged the heartstrings of many Real Americans back in 1952 but my friend the President says that unfortunately nowadays by a thought association process turning on the waterworks always reminds people of Watergate and not Mr Nixon’s wonderful Checkers speech that many political historians regard as on a par with Winston Churchill’s great wartime Never so Many/Never so Few speech
    Best wishes CHECKERS

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  5. I love the ability to sort in the different categories! How long did it take you to amass all that information and create the chart? Very useful and informative.

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    1. Hey chester. Glad you like the sorting ability…..it is the main reason I am at my current web provider….their tables that allow sorting. As for how long it took? Well when we are doing an update to the page it only takes a minute or two to produce an entire new table….thanks to my wife’s awesome computer skills. Now collecting the information….that has taken years and years of research. Including traveling across the country a couple of times to visit Wayne’s old stomping grounds (USC) to get a look at the Warner Brother Ledgers.

      We are constantly searching for any information on his B movies of the 1930s….so far we have only had limited luck….but it is fun looking. We have over 600 pages on our website…..and he is our most popular actor/actress…..and 3rd most popular overall for the entire website….the real Duke Nation is alive and well…lol.

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