In honor of the Duke himself, Stacker ranked John Wayne’s 100 best movies from lowest to highest according to its IMDb rating, with ties broken by the number of votes.
That gig didn’t last long, however, as it took just three years for Morrison to snag his first lead role in 1930’s “The Big Trail.” Not being fond of the name Marion Morrison, the movie’s producers instructed director Raoul Walsh to change it.
Morrison lost his football scholarship due to a shoulder injury from a bodysurfing accident, and landed a job in 1927 as a prop guy on the Fox Studios lot.
Before he was one of Hollywood’s most bankable and iconic Western movie stars, actor John Wayne was an Iowa-born USC lineman named Marion Morrison.
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