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 of ...

Henry Hathaway directed True Grit from Marguerite Roberts’ screenplay based on Charles Portis’ novel. It’s a story of revenge after Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) murders the father of an independent 14-year ...

Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) faces the judge and finally earns back his U.S. Marshal badge after proving his grit and justice once again. Get your popcorn pick! Watch Rooster Cogburn here: <a href=" ...

The real-life Franklin "Rooster" Cogburn was a cowboy, moonshiner, and outlaw in Arkansas and Oklahoma in the late 1800s; on the silver screen, John Wayne and Jeff Bridges played varyingly ...

When John Wayne got into a fight with a critic on a moving train, and it wasn’t because of a bad review.

John Wayne won an Academy Award for his portrayal of lawman Rooster Cogburn in 1969's "True Grit." There was a real-life Rooster Cogburn who was on the opposite side of ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Owner Clark Brewster of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to name his superstar sprinter Rooster Cogburn because of actor John Wayne's eye patch in his portrayal of that character in the movies. The reason ...