After True Grit, John Wayne was offered another big-time Western, but he turned it down and missed out on the chance for a ...

The first of the Rooster quotes involves him finally confronting Robert Duvall’s Ned Pepper. He asks, “What’s your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?” Cogburn responds ...

Oscar-winning actor John Wayne played Rooster Cogburn in 'True Grit,' who brought a specific type of justice to bad guys. Henry Hathaway’s 1969 Western True Grit starred Wayne in the lead role ...

Since then, Wayne usually played cowboys, soldiers, and other assorted heroes. True Grit's Rooster Cogburn was an aging, ...

A film that John Wayne used as a vehicle to win his only Academy Award, “True Grit” was released June 11, 1969. Wayne, who starred as Rooster Cogburn in the movie, died exactly 10 years later ...

True Grit was a godsend for John Wayne, who lobbied for the lead role of one-eyed US Marshal Rooster Cogburn after reading Charles Portis’ novel of the same name. Duke would go on to finally win ...

In all its glory, nothing better represents the American Old West than the well-preserved Colorado ranch from John ... Wayne plays US Marshal “Rooster” Cogburn, a man of “true grit ...

If we know how 14-year-old Mattie Ross hired Rooster Cogburn ... brothers version of True Grit, with Jeff Bridges as Rooster, continually calls it a remake of the John Wayne film.

Wayne's portrayal of hard-drinking U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn was ... In 1969, when "True Grit" played in the theaters, Americans were looking for heroes like John Wayne to show them nobility.

After decades as a Hollywood star, John Wayne’s Oscars moment finally came when he starred as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. After reading Charles Portis’ novel, Duke actively campaigned for ...