In his final role, acting legend John Wayne played a gunslinger who was dying of cancer. The film was called The Shootist, ...

In honor of America’s 250th birthday this summer, the Tribune will publish weekly stories from our archives that tell the ...

Two decades after Hollywood legend John Wayne's death on June 11, 1979, the American Film Institute selected him as one of ...

The swaggering "Duke," killed in 1979 aged 72 by stomach cancer, was one of the defining stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, hailed for his roles in Western and war epics and for cultivating a screen ...

John Wayne was known for his tough cowboy persona and classic western films, but he had a soft side to him. Ahead of the 47th ...

What makes “The Shootist” endure is its fascination with the distance between the stories people tell about a man and the man ...