John Wayne's Favorite Supporting Character Actors

Those character actors, actresses and friends Wayne shared the limelight with.
Over a long career John Wayne made many movies, mostly westerns. Of course he didn't do this alone. Aside from sharing the screen with the likes of Maureen O’Hara, James Stewart, Robert Mitchum and many other lead actors. None of these movies would have been possible without the many talented and hard working support actors. Today we will take a look at some of them.
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[@kathythomas1783]

I'm 78 so I watch all these actors who were my heroes growing up wish the movies could come back to TV

[@bugvswindshield]

Maurin O'Hara Wow, pure natural beauty and a powerful woman. She filled the screen every bit with the duke and magic resulted in every scene!

[@terryporche9059]

Beautiful lady with lots of class

[@davidbrown386]

Here is another overlook: George Gabby Hayes. He appeared in 6 Wayne Westerns.

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

George "Gabby" Hayes was an opera singer who smartly transitioned into a movie character actor. To increase his screen persona he had his teeth surgically removed. His skill in acting his character led him to game.

[@debrareplogle651]

Thank You for this episode, he acted with the best character actors ever. They were true stars in their own right.

[@leeblake3989]

Victor McLaglen won the Best Actor Oscar for "The Informer" in 1935. He was in 12 John Ford films of which 7 were with John Wayne.

[@walterspringer565]

You left out the best:Victor McLaglan!

[@patmckeane6588]

Was going to say that

[@NattyBumppo48]

Amen

[@Johnnycdrums]

Tell me more.

[@gargoledragon]

I grew up loving John Wayne movies he was a great actor and all the character actors were great. Sad to lose so many stars I considered all the character actors as stars

[@tex148th]

Good job ! I grew up watching "The Duke".... He was THE ROLE MODEL for guys of my generation... It's a tragedy that those values have been thrown away..

[@edro3838]

All mention made for a nice line up…Ward Bond and Hank Worden were favorites of mine…

[@user-rr8db3mu6y]

This is the Best in America. I’m 70 and there will never be another like them. THE BEST. WHAT A BUNCH OF TALENT.

[@lawrencewiddis2447]

Never say never.

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

@@lawrencewiddis2447 Never. The good days are gone even though the Western is making a bit of a comeback.

[@maggielandow2686]

Yes,excellent and on target. I am a huge John Wayne fan and you named the characters very well. He was loyal to friends.

[@user-cv2cv4gq7r]

EVER HEARD OF GABBY HAYS ?

[@maggielandow2686]

@@user-cv2cv4gq7r I sure have. He was a great character like Chill Wills.

[@user-er2ys7jh7e]

Hondo Lane(asking Ward Bond's character): You ready? Ward Bond(as "Buffalo" Baker): I WAS BORN READY!!😅😅😅😅

[@kenowens9021]

Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez was chosen by Wayne while Gonzalez as a guest on You Bet Your Life. Wayne put him in several of his movies.

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

Harry Carey Jr wrote s memoir Company of Heroes: My Life in the John Ford Stock Company which describes a lot of off screen stories. I beleve that Wayne simply carried on eith the stock company ensemle tradition and added new players as needed. This video brought back many hours of movie memes. Thanks.

[@Killerclown667]

Great upload, I’m a John Wayne fan having grown up in the ‘70s at the end of his career. My father was a huge fan. Wasn’t there a story about John Wayne presenting Ward Bond with a shotgun that he’d shot Bond with accidentally? Surprised Victor McClaglen didn’t get a mention?

[@carlprutzman377]

Yes..i,m big John Wayne fan....he had a bunch of supporting characters. They were all very professional!

[@user-mm3pu1pr8g]

I think more importantly, they were good card players and drinking companions

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

@@user-mm3pu1pr8g David Huddelston and Jack Elam always played poker with Duke.

[@fritziepisarski8681]

Have always loved Mose Harper and Sgt Quincannon

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

A VERY well made and honestly played documentary. Thank you.

[@JaniceBilbrey-sm4bi]

Enjoyed hearing and seeing this. Thank you.

[@sailordude2094]

Thanks for the tribute video, very interesting to look up the actors. @4:53, Jack Pennick was a WW1 Marine veteran who "re-enlisted in the navy in 1942, at the age of 46. He served as Chief Petty Officer under Commander John Ford in the Field Photographic Unit and, according to Ford, was decorated with the Silver Star medal for action in which he was wounded at Majaz al Bab, Tunisia during World War II."

[@richardrichmond8006]

I enjoyed it very much, and thank you.

[@johnking6252]

Supporting actors and character actors are two different animals, in JW case they were both special cases. He definitely had his own posse or stable if you will. 👍. John Wayne an American icon . 🇺🇲

[@BuckJones1909]

Great & thorough list! Enjoyed the video!

[@lucieleimbach]

Where is Victor McLagen? He and Ward Bond were Wayne’s favorites. The Quiet Man and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon to name 2 fan favorites.

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

Que for a sequel. -))

[@CSAFD]

You forgot Two: Denver Pyle in several JW movies and Mike Henry who was in the green berets and Rio lobo with JW, he was also jr justice in Smokey and the bandit. Hank worden "the garden of Eden had it serpents too, follow me brother Col., thru the swamps, lead kindly lord." Horse soldiers. Worden was also in the first Smokey and the bandit as a truck driver during "eastbound and down." Convoy.

[@ronaldrose7593]

Great video, some of the best character actors. Thank you for sharing this informative video. 😊

[@famouspeople63]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@drivernjax]

I don't know who co-starred in the most John Wayne movies but I think Ben Johnson was in the top 5 especially his westerns from the 40s and 50s.

[@warrenpeters-tz2bb]

I ENJOYED both of these v5

[@user-er2ys7jh7e]

I've always believed that scene with Dean Martin and Walter Brennan towards the end of RIO BRAVO was improvised.😊😊😊

[@deadandburied7626]

You forgot Victor McLaglen! 😮

[@wesleyhall8630]

Great memories.

[@ThomasGidley-kv2uj]

I think Ward Bond was his favorite.

[@CathieSoli]

They were close friends. John was a pallbearer at Ward's funeral.

[@kalburgy2114]

They played college football together.

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

I believe that Bond was first to get into the business and then managed to get his college friend, the chorus boy dancer Michael Marion Morrison into the business also. Michael Marion had a problem that as a dancer he always walked on the balls of his feet and didn't know how to walk as a macho cowboy. His friend Paul Fix taught him to walk by walking slightly pigeon toed. The John Wayne walk.

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

@@MakerBoyOldBoy Paul Fix, also taught him how to throw punches.

[@bravehome4276]

Never have so few done so much for so many....

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

;-))) Ala, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.

[@lynek2126]

Nice summary, but I have to say that Harry Carey was much more than a secondary character actor. He was HUGE in silents, and was the much bigger star than Wayne early on in the Duke’s career.

[@Curtiz2008]

Harry Carey died years before Andrew V. MacLaglan started directing.

[@ernestpolk9555]

HC sr.

[@chrisjarvis4449]

my rocking chair ! moes

[@1SciFiGeek508]

Always loved old Mose'. Worden always came across as the greatest & most irritating friend you could ever have

[@larryniidji]

At 75, I was weaned on all these movie greats. I think Harry Carey, who meant so much to John Wayne should have had special mention.

[@famouspeople63]

Take a look at my several videos on character actors, he is often mentioned, thanks.

[@johnfun3394]

I miss Uncle John! Always tried to uphold his values, like a cowboy.

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

Wayne's on screen hero character never occurred off screen. His ultra right wing political views bordered on Fascism and his racist private comments have been made public and his movies boycotted by younger populations. Wayne publicly boasted about ruining the careers and running out of town those who opposed his views. No adult woman would have anything to do with him so he managed to marry a very young Mexican girl child to keep him company on set. When she grew up s little she stayed at home taking care of the children. I grew up loving his movies and despising his off screen damage. Only the most gullible buy the on screen character as any version of reality. I fully accept that he was a major asshole until he died, but I still enjoy the screen character movies he made. I believe that as a uoung boy I watched the Rio Bravo hotel scene shoot out being filmed at the original Old Tucson movie set. I have several of his movies on Blu-ray.

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

@@MakerBoyOldBoy Nope, wrong there. He was invited to speak at some university to college students during the height of the Vietnam War. You know, the one he rode in on an APC. They shouted at him, tried to get him to quit and acted childish. He stood his ground, didn't get angry. By the end of his time there, he turned a few of them into friends. That's just one example.

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

Also, Duke thought of himself as a liberal, was surprised to learn he wasn't.

[@alvaropelayo8084]

Excellent selection. In a second one should be Chuck Hayward, Chuck Robertson, Cliff Lyons, Willis Bouchey. By the way, I like very much Lane Chandler, he should have been a star.

[@1Bonex]

I can't think of anyone that you missed except maybe his canine supporting actors in Hondo and Big Jake.

[@douglasvandermey6577]

I was hoping that you would have included some of his female co-stars

[@patmancrowley8509]

The Sons of the Pioneers. What an amazing group of singers! Rio Grande was my introduction to them. Found out many years later that my grampa and gramma were friends of theirs and they's stop by in Omaha on occassion. Just love their music!

[@bobwallace1880]

Paul Fix was THE acting coach in California. He established acting schools across America. He was also in movies besides westerns. I think Victor McLaglan should be mentioned. Good post thank you.

[@famouspeople63]

Im thinking about a video on Victor, he os mentioned in many of my other videos.

[@virgil5361]

I don't know how he could have left out Lee Marvin. Most folks don't know that in the movie Donovans Reef, Robert Mitchum was originally signed for it. Still, one thing that John and Robert always did was play pranks like school kids and they played one on John Ford which caused him to fall into the river he got mad, and instead of firing both John and Robert, he just fired Robert because he loved John too much. So they called a regular of John's and Ford's Lee Marvin to do Robert Mitchum's part.

[@maggielandow2686]

Thank you.

[@ralphmills7322]

I also liked Chill Wills and Edgar Buchanan roles in McLintock!

[@garysandburg8199]

George "Gabby" Hayes was his best sidekick to me. He "out acted" the John in Tall in the saddle.

[@famouspeople63]

Wayne gave a lot of rope to those who acted with him, very generous.

[@garysandburg8199]

That he was.

[@user-eb8uw3gp3t]

Met Ben Johnson at the old Rawhide theme park in Scottsdale, Ariz. at his annual Rodeo and Dinner...

[@famouspeople63]

You spoke to him?

[@user-eb8uw3gp3t]

@@famouspeople63 No, but we nodded to each other.

[@user-bt4vx2fe2f]

Holy Cow, There's so many people that were left out . Victor McLaughlin from theQuite Man ,Lee Marvin Donavon's Reef, Roscoe Lee Brown from the Cowboys , Neville Brand True Grit, or one of my all-time favorites Red Buttons in Harti.

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

Kinda hard to be of his Stock Company, when they made one movie with him. They were just co-stars.

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

BTW, Richard Boone did two of his movies.

[@WilmerCook]

John Qualen the best all time supporting actor!

[@timothymcgraw8404]

You left out Chuck Roberson 1948 Red River, 1948 Wake of the Red Witch,1949 The Fighting Kentuckian,1950 Rio Grande, 1953 Hondo, 1956 The Searchers, 1959 Rio Bravo, 1960 The Alamo, 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1963 McLintock!1965 The Sons of Katie Elder, 1966 El Dorado, 1967 The War Wagon,1968 The Green Berets, 1968 Hellfighters, 1969 The Undefeated, 1970 Rio Lobo, 1970 Chisum, 1971 Big Jake, 1973 Cahill: United States Marshal, 1974 McQ. I think Johnny liked him too.

[@jasemclamb1451]

He was also John Wayne stunt double

[@ozarkpipertony8396]

The greatest generation for sure.

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

Not really. That USA generation was simply the only group not physically devastated by WWII due to the protection of both oceans. All other generations have proudly protected this country. Picking out one with no special qualities demeans the others.

[@user-er2ys7jh7e]

Have you thought about doing an episode featuring the career of John Qualen? Three of his notable roles(out of VERY MANY): The "killer" in HIS GAL FRIDAY; The resistance fighter in CASABLANCA; The restaurant owner(and Vera Miles' father) in THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE.😊😊😊😊

[@johnhartman8086]

Ken Curtis as Festus is my favorite .And yes there were many, many fine character actors .

[@davidkimmel5153]

Great video

[@famouspeople63]

Thanks for the visit

[@11froglegs]

Best movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and best actor in movie Mr. Willy Strode😅

[@johnnyola8391]

I agree best movie but best actor Lee Marvin the best bad guys always grinned and Lee was a master

[@godsowndrunk1118]

Wayne's kids were in a few of his movies also....

[@JohnPatterson-kz8jr]

Interesting Factoid:Harry Carrey,Jr.was Paul Fix's Son in Law.😅😊

[@vikinghex]

some of these character actors are the reason the stars look so good men and women who fill the bits that make a scene that without them the star would look a pratt I love them the grassroots of films a fan I would give them all a star

[@famouspeople63]

Your right!

[@donturner7797]

You forgot Victor Mc Laglen.

[@NattyBumppo48]

Victor McLaughan....??!!

[@joelkweskin8545]

You mentioned other movies made by some of his more obscure co-star character actors...but what about Bruce Cabot's most famous claim to fame -- you know, the movie he made in 1931...about a giant ape...gets shot down from the Empire State Building....?!!

[@joelkweskin8545]

Correction: 1933.

[@wb1092]

Pedro Armendariz, Gabby Hays, and Noah Beery Jr always made a good impression on me.

[@famouspeople63]

All great, mentioned many times in my other videos.

[@leondillon8723]

4:13) CHABOT. 9:28)Devine's voice was caused by a neck injury when very young.

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

John Ford was chewing out Andy Devine on set and ended his customary ill-tempered rant with "I don't even remember why I hired you!" Andy Devine quickly retorted, "'Cause I'm the only one that can drive a full team of horses!"

[@Wild_Bill57]

Glad you mentioned Ward Bond first. Always got out of Hank Warden’s characters. Whole bunch of great supporting characters.

[@peter12488]

what about LEE MARVIN. The Man who shot Liberty Valance and the COMMANCHEROES?

[@jenningsrozzell7557]

Hank Worden was a Stanford alumni, Degree in Engineering.

[@famouspeople63]

He looked it :)

[@alvaropelayo8084]

This is Duke-land at his best. Hooray!!

[@user-er2ys7jh7e]

Hank Worden's last role was a bit part as a trucker in the first SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT.

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

He was the Trailor Park manager in: Every Which Way But Loose, with Clint Eastwood.

[@lray1948]

When it got to Jerry Gatlin, narrator listed the movies Gatlin supposedly did with Wayne, but 2 of them were from 1985, 6 years after Wayne died. One was Silverado. For all the other actors I believe they only listed the movies the actor did with Wayne. Seems like with Gatlin they were listing simply some of his more famous movies.

[@jeffreymcwhorter9360]

Walter Brennan

[@user-jp5mn3bi2e]

"Oh Stumpy, stop cackling."

[@rickkelly1839]

You forgot one Dean Martin

[@kimothy1701]

Doesn’t matter which movie I see Hank Worden in. He will always be Mose from The Searchers

[@famouspeople63]

Me too

[@sallycutts8226]

Jeffery Hunter The Undefeated The Searchers

[@jackwilson2304]

I was hoping to see Bob Steele on the list.

[@sonnysantana5454]

surprised so many professional actors swore that they'd never work with him again

[@geraldpierini9010]

He did a few with Gabby Hayes.

[@chrisjarvis4449]

Olaf Wieghorst Danish painter and did a few none credit rolls

[@jefffisher1297]

John Doucette

[@famouspeople63]

Take a look in my western character actors videos in my channel, thanks.

[@user-fc6ci8dh3m]

Well now Arness fell out of favor so there’s that. I’d say Bond and Johnson were his favorites to work with but old man Carey he loved.

[@famouspeople63]

He certainly had his close friends in his movies.

[@itravisoni]

Paul fix wasn't in that many movies with the duke.

[@marshtahu5980]

Woody Strode

[@famouspeople63]

Take a look at my videos on Strode in my channel

[@dave-hp3rf]

John Wayne? film hero who never served. Many of his actor friends did serve in WW2 with distinction but Big John decided that with all the talent away he could become a big star,and he did acting in many westerns and of course movies about WW2 in which he was a heroic soldier/sailor/airman all pretend.

[@MegaWillieo]

Victor Mcalhran

[@warrenpeters-tz2bb]

AND WOMEN just sayn hehe

[@famouspeople63]

Take a look at my videos on Wayne's leading ladies in my channel

[@samiam619]

I don’t care if Wayne liked Hank Worden… he was the worst cause he played an idiot. 3:45

[@samiam619]

And I forgot Andy Devine as another moron…

[@samiam619]

I don’t care if Wayne liked Hank Worden… he was the worst cause he played an idiot.

[@HSmith-uk9hl]

No menmtion of Struther Martin? Weak.

[@famouspeople63]

Mentioned in many of my videos including one just on him in the channel, take a look. Thanks.

[@ajm1268]

Big John never served his country, and no he was not too old or hurt!😊

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

Wayne was a rabid almost Fascist right winger who enjoyed doing harm to those who opposed his views. He was also a racist in private who current reputation is in tatters among informed younger generations who refuse to watch his movie hero character.