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True Grit is a 1969 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, Glen Campbell as La Boeuf and Kim Darby as Mattie Ross. It is the first film adaptation of Charles Portis ' 1968 novel of the same name .
The character was also featured in a 1978 made-for-television sequel entitled True Grit: A Further Adventure starring Warren Oates as Cogburn. The Coen brothers released a new film version of the novel in 2010. [2] In the 1969 and 1975 theatrical releases, Cogburn was portrayed by John Wayne.
American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in The Big Trail (1930), an epic Western shot in an early widescreen process ...
Written by Martha Hyer (who is credited as Martin Julien) and based on the Rooster Cogburn character from Charles Portis' 1968 Western novel True Grit, the film is a sequel to True Grit (1969), [2] and the second installment overall in the film series of the same name. The plot details the continuing adventures of Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn ...
The John Wayne Cancer Foundation was founded in 1985 in honor of John Wayne, after his family granted the use of his name (and limited funding) for the continued fight against cancer. [184] The foundation's mission is to "bring courage, strength, and grit to the fight against cancer". [ 184 ]
Among her many feature films is the one that she is most famous for in American and Hollywood motion pictures history, is that of co-starring with legendary John Wayne and Glen Campbell, in the Western classic True Grit (first version of 1969), in which she played "Mattie Ross", a precocious, unusually confident 14-year-old Arkansas frontier ...
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[5]: 126–128 Martin played villainous roles in many of the best-known Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s, including The Horse Soldiers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He played an Indian agent in the John Wayne film, McLintock! (1963) and a horse trader in the 1969 film, True Grit (1969).