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    Birthday: May 26, 2007

    Arguably the most popular -- and certainly the busiest -- movie leading man in Hollywood history, John Wayne entered the film business while working as a laborer on the Fox lot during summer vacations from U.S.C., which he attended on a football scholarship. He met and was befriended by John Ford, a young director who was beginning to make a name for himself in action films, ...more
    • 1969
    • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
    • Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
    • True Grit
    • win
    • 1969
    • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
    • Best Actor
    • True Grit
    • win
    • 1965
    • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
    • Cecil B. DeMille Award
    • win
    • 1960
    • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
    • Best Picture
    • The Alamo
    • nom
    • 1952
    • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
    • Henrietta Award
    • win


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