It’s a good time to be a John Wayne fan. One of the most iconic and prolific actors in the history of Hollywood, with an image that defined rugged, just-minded American manhood, Wayne’s cinematic ...

Seventy years ago, John Wayne put San Dimas on the map via a line of movie dialogue. I’m talking about 1953’s “Hondo.” Did Wayne laud downtown’s wooden sidewalks or put in a plug for Raging Waters?

On September 8, 1967, audiences were thrilled to hear that Hondo was returning. But instead of John Wayne in the saddle, former Klondike star Ralph Taeger took over as the leading man. A former ...

John Wayne's prolific career saw him star in scores of films that earned him notoriety, but one in particular could go down as one of his best by some viewers today. The actor, who once almost died in ...

Howdy, pardner. My Nov. 29 column on the 70th anniversary of “Hondo” found an appreciative audience, which I, uh, appreciate. I wrote about the John Wayne movie and its Louis L’Amour novelization, ...

The Western is one of America’s unique cultural gifts and no one personified that genre better than John Wayne — not Gary Cooper, not Clint Eastwood. In a career that spanned four decades, Wayne, with ...