John Wayne Gacy was executed in prison 31 years ago on May 10, 1994 Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

John Wayne is a Hollywood icon with a presence so dominating, he defined two different American film genres: Westerns and war films. While Hollywood's golden age may have produced better actors ...

Chisum was John Wayne's first movie of the 1970s, the Western legend's final decade. Having had a cancerous lung removed a few years earlier, Duke had to rely on an oxygen mask and hide his ...

Would you run 100 miles through the Rocky Mountains to earn a big, shiny, handmade Western-style belt buckle, even if it ... and two massive buckles for John Callahan and Todd Murray in honor ...

John Wayne had seven children: Michael, Mary, Patrick, Melinda, Aissa, John and Marisa Wayne Julie Tremaine is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has ...

The Western comedy North to Alaska demonstrates John Wayne's range outside of his well-known tough-guy roles. Filmed during the Alaskan gold rush, it follows Wayne's character, Sam McCord ...

Back in 1963, John Wayne starred in a Western comedy loosely based on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Duke played an ageing rancher called George Washington McLintock, a wealthy ...

No one would argue that John Wayne was a true legend. Born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa on May 26, 1907, he took the stage name John Wayne for his movies, but was also lovingly known as The Duke.