John Wayne Truly Hated Him More Than Anyone

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[@leapinlizard9487]

My dad was a parts manager for a Ford dealership in Casa Grande, Arizona. John Wayne owned a large cattle feedlot in Stanfield, Arizona. Wayne use to drive into town with one of his employees to have a work truck repaired. He would come into the parts department and chat with my dad while he waited on the repairs. One time he said to my dad that he was interested in all things automotive and if he could take a walk thru the parts bins. My dad responded sure go ahead, just don't touch anything! My dad, my brother and I were all big John Wayne fans. I was in college when my dad casually mentioned one day that Wayne had visited with him about 5-6 times over the years, but he just didn't feel it was that big of a deal. You see my dad was our real hero to my brother and I as he served 3 years in WWII, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, Omaha Beach, 2nd wave and had met General George Patton twice. My dad lived to be 100yrs. old and 4 mos.

[@righteyeartistry156]

I guessed I missed the part about who he truly hated.

[@richardbrowning8221]

Audie Murphy the most decorated soldier of WWIi a true hero.

[@geraldmartin7703]

In army basic training in the early 1970s, we were explicitly warned to not act like John Wayne on the battlefield. Vietnam was not a movie.

[@scottgwelch6904]

Doesn't let the facts get in the way of a story. The Mogambo clash was between star Clark Gable and director John Ford, not John Wayne. Wayne wasn't in even in Mogambo, and I don't think he ever appeared in a film with Gable. Wayne is said to have said some harsh things about Gable, and reportedly criticized him for being disloyal to Ford. It has also been said that Wayne strongly disliked Gene Hackman as an actor. But Hackman wasn't in The Searchers, which was released in 1956. Hackman's first screen credit was in 1964. He never appeared in a film with Wayne.

[@francisfrank8325]

John Wayne “Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid”

[@TomBTerrific]

Maureen O'Hara was one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen.

[@LIVTOMCHUROO]

John Wayne played every character as John Wayne.

[@theodoreyoung7946]

The Duke, kirk Douglas, Jimmy Stewart, Audy Murphy, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Charles Bronson, and several others were always and still are the best.

[@ellobo4542]

My dad was a World War II Marine Sergeant . He saw action all through the South Pacific including Iwo Jima. Dad recieved metals and written letters for his actions plus a Purple Heart. Dad never cared for Wayne called him a draft dodger . Movies and reality are not the same thing . Dad died in my arms of a heart attack at 52 . Most of his Military friends died early in life. Gram blamed it on the stress of the War. I'm 72 and haven't seen anyone that is half the man Dad was including myself .

[@JohnHoulgate]

Wayne played heroes. Eastwood played anti-heroes.

[@anthonyazzizzo9047]

John Wayne was not in Mogambo!✝️🇺🇸✌️

[@anAeijingBuffoon]

John Wayne was in the army, but only in the movies...

[@brucebaum1458]

You do know he only had one lung right?

[@BarryMerson-zr1sv]

I was in a restaurant in Arizona in 1975. John Wayne walked in. Everyone acknowledged his presence but nobody approached him or spoke to him.

[@johnking6252]

He was an actor....plain & simple... nothing more , nothing less. Not a real hero , but played one. Loved his Movies. Movies! RIP JW.🇺🇲

[@vanessamccoy1475]

I have many great memories of watching John Wayne films with my dad. The Quiet Man is my favorite.

[@deeannray5093]

My Dad, who died at 104 years of age, watched, over & over & over, again & again, nothing but old John Wayne movies. He was DEFINITELY a HERO to my Dad. He passed away five years ago. - Susan Burns

[@Grandpa_Moses]

Picking a fight with Hackman over acting was biting off more than anyone can chew. Gene is one of the finest ever and extremely under appreciated. Every role he's played you feel he's that person, with maybe the exception of Lex Luthor, although he pulled it off as well as anyone could.

[@gerryconstant4914]

Peter Boyle was offered the part of Popeye Doyle in the gritty crime drama The French Connection. He has just finished the violent movie Joe & didn't want to do another. The role went to Hackman & he never had to worry about being the lead role again. Both were in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein with Boyle playing the monster & Hackman playing a small but funny part of the blind recluse.

[@phelan5387]

Wayne always played himself in all his roles. Just different names to his characters.😊

[@paulsmodels]

Wayne was in some great old westerns that I keep in my collection. He was an actor. Actors and actresses have one thing in common, they were people just like us. You don't have to agree with their politics to admire their skills.

[@lynncarden]

Marlene Dietrich even thu being german absolutely hated Hitler and Nazism...She did many thing to support America's war effort.

[@fryque]

Hackman and Wayne were never in a film together.

[@Jibbie49]

Gene Hackman didn't have "looks" so he made it by being a versatile character actor, but IMO, John Wayne had "the looks and height", and he played John Wayne in all of his movies. I grew up in the 50s/60s, so TV played all the movies from the 30s/40s, so I watched them all.

[@timuren1541]

To my knowledge gene Hackman Wasn't in the movie fort apache And this guy said. That gene Hackman and john Wayne were never in a movie together so how could there have been tension on the set.

[@jameskolar9655]

I loved all of John Wayne’s films. Growing up, we kids never missed any western films they were our favourite, and John Wayne was the very best.

[@benjaminbockus2061]

Scarey. Born in 1958 I am molded in my strength by this guy. Believing still that ones belief in oneself no matter the odds, brings comfort no matter the outcome if one stands for right.

[@nicholassyrmis3789]

In the 70s as a kid I was always watching John Wayne and Clint Eastwood's movie at the drive-ins with my family miss those days

[@TheMancMod01]

Here in the UK, his films were pretty popular when I was growing up. I used to watch them with my nan when I was a kid , she was besotted with him. It's nice to learn something about the man I grew up watching on TV. Thanks.

[@kevinarmstrong6957]

John Wayne was an icon . But I am saddened by his criticism of two of my favourite actors Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood .

[@surfside-hj2ue]

I saw John Wayne getting off his motor boat in Newport Beach. He waved to the people on the tour boat I was on and smiled. He looked exactly like he did in the movies.

[@robertphillips3078]

Prefer John Wayne's Westerns every day of the week

[@royandrews7423]

John Wayne was a DRAFT DOGGER, Clark Gable SERVED his country !!!

[@mikestaples3734]

..so, other than the bitter feed that might have resulted IF Wayne and Hackman had actually worked together on Fort Apache, who did he hate more than any other?

[@DonLoco3]

When I was a kid, John Wayne was one of my heroes but then I grew up and learned about PR departments and all the bs that is Hollywood. Needless to say I have far better heroes these days.

[@johncrispo156]

John Wayne wasn't in Mogambo! Gable and Ford butted heads! Hackman and Wayne never acted together either!

[@roquefortfiles]

Confidence is quiet. Insecurity is loud. Good grief!! i feel sorry for John Ford having to nurse maid these two giant egos

[@thegreatfatsby1912]

This guy was almost unique in never having served when almost everyone else did. John Ford famously called him out on the set for being the only actor who had zero contribution to WW2

[@williamwatkins8924]

John Wayne tried to rush the stage in 1973 when Sacheen Littlefeather accepted the Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando to turn down his Best Actor award for his performance in The Godfather, using the speech to call out the film industry's treatment of Native Americans. She said 6 security guards had to hold Wayne back. Wayne openly denounced rights for native Americans and stated in a Playboy interview, John Wayne said "Our so-called stealing of this country from (Native Americans) was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." He was a mediocre actor and to be fair, imperfect like all humans. " I never thought of him as a hero. Wayne never enlisted for service in WW2 and even filed for a 3-A draft deferment, which meant that if the sole provider for a family of four were drafted, it would cause his family undue hardship. The closest he ever came to World War II service was portraying the actions of others on the silver screen. He only had one lung . But that was after 1964.

[@adelebrown9210]

Am I the only one who thinks this guy looks like Fred Sanford 😳

Wayne stayed at home making movies and getting rich while his contemporaries like Jimmy Stewart put their lives at risk actually fighting the enemy. He was a paper tiger, a false idol.

[@mikeyates7931]

John Wayne was a great actor , who never acted a day in his life ; he was always , John Wayne

[@jcalohio]

The Cowboys was his best and one of Hollywoods best of all times. Rugged, fatherly, sharing good with the bad, and endearing.

[@themoviemaniac8416]

I can get why Wayne was unhappy with Arness not being in The Alamo. He's the one who got Arness the job on Gunsmoke. Arness at the least should have gone to Wayne and explained his situation in person about not being available, rather than through his agent.

[@insocal6713]

The parlay into what if John Wayne and Gene Hackman worked together was bizarre and had me confused.

[@frankmertens1707]

And he never actually went to war but instead obtained a waiver of service unlike Clark Gabel or Jimmy Stewart.

[@petermicklethwaite6281]

Every part he played, he was always John Wayne. Even the way he threw his cigarette away was always the same.

[@twobellz]

Wayne got the shock of his life when he toured Vietnam, every show he presented the soldiers booed him off stage knowing about his underhanded attempts to keep himself out of the war.

[@garlandremingtoniii1338]

Nobody alive today making films 🎥, comes even close to him. I’m so glad that I was born in the 50s.

[@marksolheim8186]

He should have won a Oscar for the Searchers.

[@robertlewis2542]

I never heard a reasonable reason for him never putting in any time with the USO most especially in light of those who he worked with repeatedly asking him most especially when John Ford was the one doing the asking.

[@jackcuellar357]

Great entertainer, loved this country, believed in its people, had moral values. Did not always agree with his politics but loved his movies. The cowboys still brings tears to my eyes. A real man's man.

[@Richard-vt7it]

John Wayne made the role his. He was a tuff as nails man straight foward. My dad worked at US TRUST in manhattan John Wayne had a ton of stock in the company My dad was an electrican there when ever the Duke came there he would talk to all the workers. My dad and the Duke talked all the time. My dad loved him for his honesty and love for this country.

[@tommorgan1291]

Around 1985 I, my Aunt, my girlfriend and my daughter had reservations at Mountain Shadows Scottsdale to celebrate my friend's birthday. Upon being seated we notice Mr. Wayne seated with a man and a woman. We noticed people constantly approaching him for autographs. I and my companions felt they should leave him alone. It was disturbing! But he graciously smiled chatted and signed. Upon leaving a man and woman stopped, chatted and then by one on each side he put his arms on shoulders and had a picture taken. Wow! I thought! How patient and considerate! I would have demanded privacy in a profane manner! By the way he was a very big guy.

[@SMck-j5s]

I to grew up with him also.He never made a movie that my Dad didnt trots us off to the drive in to see it.Thats the only movies my Dad ever took us to see. I caught John Waynes appearance on the Phil Donahue show . I highly reccomend it to anyone who is a fan.

[@georgewhitehead8185]

John Wayne was born in 1907 and died in 1979, and in his 72 years of life, Mr. Wayne had the privilege of living through some of the most pivotal, and transformational times in modern American History. He commandeered a certain slice of Americana, and he also had a watchful eye on what many other components in America were going through. It can be truly said of John Wayne, that he deftly controlled his slice of the pie, while at the same time influencing many other sectors of Americana. Doctor George Whitehead

[@williamcornish3175]

I remember watching, " John Wayne Theatre growing up in eastern Oregon." John Wayne was and still is The Man when it comes to western and military movies. My dad having been a Marine, our favorite movie was, " The Sands of Iwo Jima. "

[@jambrenn7843]

John Wayne truly was jealous of James Stewart's war record James Stewart was not a conceited ego and let it pass. However he hated Lee Marvin because Lee was not a BS man, and ribbed Wayne, of John having the balls to portray people who actually fought WW11 and called him a draft dodger. Kinda playing tough guy like Trump while being a Bunker Boy.

[@gymshoe8862]

Hackman hated Wayne because of politics--Hackman was the leading leftist in cinema--he hated Wayne without a single word between them--it was automatic.

[@thecentralscrutinizerr]

My dad fought in World War II in the Pacific Theater of Operations against the Imperial Japanese. He never met John Wayne, but he liked his movies. My dad lived to be 62 years old. He died of complications of pneumonia. He and my mother were married for 44 years.

[@gartackpsdav4984]

My father spent 6 years in the pacific in ww2. He fought from east to west and never got more than 2 weeks in the US. After Jspan surrendered, he spent another 2 years in Korea and Japan with the Army of the Occuoation. In retrospect, my father was more deserving of respect tsn John Wayne coukd ever be. But he did make some good movies.

[@DougFM]

When the biggest movie star in the world asks you to be in a movie with him, YOU DO IT.

[@ac1888]

Of course he supported the Vietnam war. He didn’t fight it. His patriotism was needed stateside. Not in the battlefield of southeast Asia.

[@bobbywarren6583]

I'll take Mr. Wayne any day. What a great role model he was, and he loved America. God bless him and his family.

[@ricardodabreau1660]

John Wayne was a racist and won an Oscar for playing a character that had more True Grit than he could ever have. Bass Reeves was the real deal and John Wayne Gacy was an actor. No hero but a zero.

[@hootinouts]

I used to volunteer at a veteran home on Sundays. One day as me and the Chaplain, Father Budd, walked past a TV that had a John Wayne movie on, Father Budd commented "John Wayne; yeah - he fought in every war". I bust out laughing. Father Budd was of small stature but to me he was a giant. He served in the Pacific during WWII as a corpsman. Of course John Wayne fought on Iwo Jima - in the movies.

[@jamescarr1467]

This man was against the USA joining WW2 when the UK was losing 40,000 civilians to Nazi bombers.

[@maxwedge5683]

I like how they begin by explaining that John Wayne and Gene Hackman never acted in a film together and then go on as if it was Hackman and not Henry Fonda who played Col. Thursday in Ft. Apache. Wayne starred along side many famous actors, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, William Holden, Maureen O'Hara,Lee Marvin, Richard Widmark, Patricia Neal, Rock Hudson, Jim Hutton, Angie Dickinson, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Walter Brennan and Jeffery Hunter to name just a few. He starred in "The War Wagon" opposite Kirk Douglas, who, as a liberal democrat was about as polar opposite politically from Wayne as anyone can get. Wayne was steadfast in his beliefs but as honest as the day is long. I sincerely hope no true fan of The Duke believes any of this crap. A true 28 minute waste of time.

[@marti7343]

Wayne was not just an actor who represented strength, the West, and American values. He often played parts where he could be vulnerable, intelligent, and caring. McClintok, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, The Cowboys are some of the films where he went beyond a traditional genre playing parts requiring emotional involvement. Even as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach Wayne showed early on how he could pull off communicating very real vulnerability and emotion. It is these abilities that made him a towering actor and not just a caricature of America and the West.

[@Idahoguy10157]

Clark Gable and John Wayne may have rubbed each other the wrong pay, but it wasn’t on the set of Mogambo. I’m unaware they were ever in the same film

[@loboxx337]

Ben Johnson was the True Cowboy, Mighty Joe Young.

[@veganleigh4817]

While I didn't agree with John Wayne's politics, I never failed to appreciate his talent. Many of my favorite movies are John Wayne movies. I'm glad that some of his views softened as he grew older. He was indeed a shining star in Hollywood.

[@jamesmoore5899]

Remember the movie Trumbo set during the McArthy era when he said to Wayne you spent the entire war on stage wearing makeup firing blanks.

[@sonnypruitt6639]

Wayne was MAGA before MAGA was MAGA!

[@u105686]

Great American War hero who never went to war.

[@legalizitt]

High Plains Drifter is a fav of mine. Sounds like John Wayne was a modern day trumper who didn't get along with anybody.

[@tombecht926]

Not patriotic enough to fight but enough to make movies

[@michaelcanney7218]

John Wayne, it appears, didnt like anybody

[@puma55792]

The sands of Iwo Jima still one of the best war films John Wayne ever made.

[@bartdrennon1764]

"Stage Coach" was on TV just a couple of days ago. Still a great classic western.

[@pizzaman5169]

Many famous actorsenlisted in the military during WWII and after. Lee Marvin was buried with his buddies in Arlington Cemetary, Jimmy Stewart who attained the rank of general, Gene Hackman when he was 16, he lied about his age and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1946, Audie Murphy became the most decorated soldier in history. More than 100 actors, both men & women, were in the military during WWII. Some were actually in combat, some sold war bonds, others had varying duties. However, John Wayne was, basically a draft dodger. John Wayne never enlisted and even filed for a 3-A draft deferment. He 'acted' the part of a hero in his movies, but basically, he wussed out. Bwock-bwock-bwock !!

[@stevem-h5e]

John Wayne was the best cardboard cutout ever to perform as an actor.

[@JohnS916]

Wayne played John Wayne in every film he ever did.

[@strangeworldmasterjack143]

I've wondered over the years how many teenage boys went to war and never returned because of John Wayne and his movies? Of course, he never served. Unlike Jimmy Stewart.

[@33Donner77]

Wayne was right about communists.

[@billwessels207]

Charles Bronson, a decorated veteran, Hated John Wayne intensely, because John Wayne was a well known draft dodger during WWII.

[@anombrerose6311]

Wayne gave a LOT of roles to people he didn't agree with, many of the jobs went even to Communists. John Wayne didn't refuse to work with someone unless there was something more personal. And he didn't usually talk about it, but behaved professionally. On the other hand, I've heard Arness, for instance, pop off in a careless and derisive manner. Very unbecoming on Arness.

[@enyanyea4226]

I always thought him a very wooden actor and never understood how he got so many parts. I suppose he got two dimensinal characters to play for the most part though.

[@nick62040]

Can't blame Mr. Wayne about frank sinatra, I never cared for him either.

[@boedilllard5952]

The world used to see us as someone impressive like John Wayne. Now they think of RuPaul when they think of the US.

[@AA-69]

He was SO PATRIOTIC that he AVOIDED the REAL ARMY like the plague 💃💅

[@Redandranger]

John Wayne was such a great actor that we all believed he was the type of man he portrayed in the movies. He fooled us all. Great acting, Marion.

[@jimdavison4077]

Wayne didn't act, he had one character which he was given parts for. He was the product of a mythical USA and it's own self importance. John Ford originally felt contempt for Wayne who didn't serve during WW2. In their early projects others said Ford was purposely mean and degrading to Wayne until he got to know Wayne. For his part Wayne would never live down his failure to serve and caused a hyper nationality in the actor which was quite obnoxious.

[@jamesfahy3963]

Money for old rope. He was good in The Quiet Man. Vain , bad wig, probably had bone spurs.

[@sandrastafford5496]

I really enjoyed you Bio of John Wayne, Raising our family back in the 60s and70s, He became larger than life to our children. No matter where ae lived arpund the world, His popularity was evident, If we said we were from the United States, and owned a ranch back home, they ask us questions about John just he was a relative, The movie houses in every country kept posters of him in all ages of film. A special hero to our oldest daughter, when he made the Veit Nam story around Singapore and lived in a hotel we frequented there, He was nice enough to breakfast with us one beautiful day, He was so interested and gracious to our children, guess he missed his. We grieved like most when he died, So John, Muchas Gracious.

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

He spent a lot of time at his Mazatlan hacienda. How many of you know what he is famous for doing in Mazatlan? Some of you must know some of the oldtimers That remember him. It was no5 a big tourist city like now. It was a getaway for rich Hollywood tycoons... He had a hobby there that was not for public knowledge. Anyone else know?

[@oniah2]

Mary Shelly would have been amazed at the creation of John Wayne by Jack Warner.

[@johncastiello8367]

John Wayne and Clark Gable never made a film together I don't know what the hell this man is talking about

[@katb945]

Hackman a great actor Wayne a great screen presence and honesty Clint fantastic director and visionary, but my favourite has always been Richard Widmark.

[@richvandervecken3954]

I watch John Wayne's westerns and I think He is portraying a true representation of a typical family man of the western era. I watch Clint Eastwood's westerns and I think He is portraying a true representation of the people who had to deal with very brutal killers in the west. Even today what you are exposed to in terms of violence in life has a deep impact on your outlook on life in general.