John Wayne (1907-1979)
87.4 TOPICAL actor score · #47 of 1,977 actors
John Wayne (1907-1979) has a TOPICAL actor score of 87.4 - one of the 100 best actors of all time by TOPICAL's score. Their strongest parts are credits and career standing. They've won 2 acting honours from 2 nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. Their best ten-year run was 1956-1965. Best films: Stagecoach (1939), Rio Bravo (1959), The Quiet Man (1952).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours86
Prime94
Their movies82
Credits99
Career standing98
- Acting honours2 wins, 2 nominations - incl. Academy Award for Best Actor; Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
- Prime1956-1965
- Credits181 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 30 scored films (27 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 120 languages
“In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Wayne as one of the greatest male stars of classic American cinema.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10
John Wayne's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 141 | Stagecoach | 1939 | 2 |
| 275 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | 1 |
| 276 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | 1 |
| 302 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | 1 |
| 336 | The Searchers | 1956 | 1 |
| 401 | The Longest Day | 1962 | 1 |
| 471 | Red River | 1948 | 1 |
| 1,230 | True Grit | 1969 | 1 |
| 1,319 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 1949 | 1 |
| 1,521 | The Shootist | 1976 | 1 |
| 1,716 | The Long Voyage Home | 1940 | 1 |
| 1,922 | El Dorado | 1966 | 1 |
| 2,053 | Fort Apache | 1948 | 1 |
| 2,309 | The Alamo | 1960 | 1 |
| 2,729 | Baby Face | 1933 | 8 |
| 2,766 | Sands of Iwo Jima | 1949 | 1 |
| 2,980 | The Big Trail | 1930 | 1 |
| 2,984 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | 2 |
| 3,086 | Hondo | 1953 | 1 |
| 3,087 | Rio Grande | 1950 | 1 |
| 3,472 | Dark Command | 1940 | 2 |
| 3,549 | Reap the Wild Wind | 1942 | 3 |
| 3,642 | Hatari! | 1962 | 1 |
| 3,898 | The High and the Mighty | 1954 | 1 |
| 4,470 | In Harm's Way | 1965 | 1 |
| 5,075 | The Spoilers | 1942 | 3 |
| 5,181 | The Fighting Seabees | 1944 | 1 |
| 5,235 | In Old Oklahoma | 1943 | 1 |
| 5,412 | Flying Tigers | 1942 | 1 |
| 5,742 | Flame of Barbary Coast | 1945 | 1 |