I cry each time I watch this because John Wayne was a childhood hero of mine, then to learn of what he did behind the scenes and in his private life made him even more of a hero. I love watching his movies and take away some of his actions as an American man. He still figures as a great example in my life at my age of 63. God Bless!
@@gracieg7601 it’s sad that a lot of people, including myself, bought into the movie character “John Wayne”, until I found out who the man behind character was..homosexual, racist, the epitome of why you should never meet your idol. I’ve seen the pictures. Even the great movie director, John Ford, was a homosexual. I couldn’t believe it
I met him once while fishing up in the northwest. His gentle, kind, and humble demeanor was entirely unexpected but vastly appreciated. He was a giant of a man in all respects, and I am grateful for the chance encounter. This is a marvelous memorial Mr. Skinner.
John Wayne will live on in the memories of his millions of fans around the world! He’ll never be forgotten...he lives on in his many films and in the hearts of his children!!!
Loved the commentary of John Wayne. My husband and I are GREAT FANS . We truly LOVE WATCHING HIS westerns and war movies. We sometimes would have a Saturday for the WHOLE DAY FOR JOHN WAYNE’S MOVIES! We sure do miss him. You don’t see any good westerns anymore. Sad day when he died. 😢 Thanks for his movies and a great biography of MR. WAYNE. 👍🇺🇸😊
Thank you so much Jerry that was wonderful. I have always been a big fan of the Duke. I've seen almost all his movies and read much about him, but I learned a few things here. John Wayne was the greatest and he will live in our hearts forever.
I'm actually shedding tears after watching the life story of the greatest actor on the screen...JOHN Wayne. Just watched and listened to the wonderful story of his ever so full life as the most fantastic actor that won so many hearts by seeing his many movies which he made, even while very ill with cancer. No other has come forth to 'fill his late life' as an actor.
The man's voice fit within every American family.Cant watch Duke and not get up out of the dirt.That guy was tough even off screen.Thanks for this,loved it..
I am in tears, this man was a childhood Hero of mine, while not a perfect man, he did his best, loved his family and was a positive role model for young boys like me. He did not replace my parents whom are my lifetime heroes, but he reinforced what they had taught me!
my brother passed from brain cancer,, we were so close growing up, every saturday we would sit and watch John Wayne movies all day.... the only time i was allowed to watch tv withut my parents present.. i loved it .. such great memories
What a wonderful story of The Duke's life. I've always cherished my middle name Wayne and loved so many of his films. I need to start watching them again after seeing this!!
I'm actually shedding tears as I finish watching the 'great one's life story to the 'finish'. I saw every film this wonderful guy made, some repeats. So far...no other actor or 'person' has EVER been fortunate enough to be an acting movie star as John Wayne was. I've seen all of his past movies, he is missed!
Another great video Jerry! John Wayne is missed...when John was doing the Alamo in Brackettville, Tx., John bought several cars off my Dad in San Antonio and I got to meet him. I can't tell you much about the meeting I was too star struck, but he signed all the papers and closed the deal with a handshake. He said a man's word is his bond. I remembered it all my life.
What a remarkable life and man. Thank you for this wonderful tribute. Not only was John Wayne a great actor he married 3 women from ethnic minorities. He had good taste.
I watched many films starring John Wayne as a kid and to this day (I am in my 50's) I still enjoy his screen presence. What a man John Wayne was and may his name remain legendary!
John Wayne is my favorite actor, bar none. He is the salt of the earth; a good, simple, honest man we can all look up to. He once said a wife should be pretty and a good companion. I have happily followed this advice, haha! Thank you, Duke. You will not be forgotten!
John Wayne has always been my main man actor lol, I'm 55 now and I love all John Wayne movies lol....Jerry I love your story telling your voice is calming and very understanding, please keep up the good work!! I love my western movies and I'll watch everyone you talk about in the westerns videos lol thank you so much💖😍
I am so lucky to be able to say that I was a personal friend of John Wayne from 1970 to 1973. He was the most average and normal man I ever knew while living in Hollywood, there was NEVER one bit of pretence on his part, heck, he never wore his hair when we were together, no matter where we were going. He was, as he said to me, not John Wayne, he was just the man who happened to be John Wayne on the big screen. We traveled together to Tucson, Arizona, where he made some movies, and played cards with some of his friends at his place in Newport Beach. There isn't a day goes by that I don't remember something he said, or some other special memory. I have to tell you that I still pinch myself when I remember how lucky I was to have been able to meet him. Thank you for sharing this memory of a great motion picture giant with us. Love this channel. I learn so much.
I don't mean to make fun of The Duke, but it is kinda funny if you thin about it , that in his last western films he used a lather to get on and off horses. Never got a chance to meet him , knew a lot of people who knew him, but, that's not good enough.
Lost my whole family to cancer Jerry once again wish I could give you a billion thumbs up. Not only my favorite actor yet my cat Thor is a John Wayne freak loves watching his westerns over and over.
There is not enough thumbs up that I can click!! Simply a Beautiful man and his friendship with Mrs. O'Hara is so moving!! Love them both always have and always will!
🙋🏼♀️ No problem Bear Bear! Your comment really bummed me out😢 but isn’t it funny how many of us like to believe we know what these famous ppl 🤩 are really like!? And most of the time we’re let down 😕 because the “stars” 🌟 are just human beings as are the rest of us. 🙄 Guess i’m not _really_ surprised. 🤷♀️ TY for your input! 🥳🤟🏼💋
At least once every year, my mother and I would sit together and watch The Quiet Man. Though she is gone now, I watch it whenever it comes on. For a while, she's here with me again. God bless you, John Wayne.
Mr. Skinner, thank you so much for your wonderful videos. I think I have watched them all and I have never seen such wonderful Bios. Integrity, honesty, and accuracy. Thank you again.
Great piece on John Wayne he is my all time favorite actor .... huh and my grandfather could pass for brothers I love them both very much this is a really great piece thank you so much for sharing to this day at 69 yrs old and yo this day I still watch all his movies and have many of them in my personal stack of movies at home
I'm very proud that john wayne appeard on youtube this evening.this could change are state and definitely change are attitude as well.john wayne definitely has the attitude and heart everyone needs today.
Thank you for making us aware of what “The Duke” was really about. What a good guy, raising good children, and leaving us with such good memories. Thank you Jerry. I love your video education presentations.
There’ll never be another JOHN Wayne...I remember that he truly Love Ms O’Hara...I always thought that she was one Beautiful Redhead
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Magnificent presentation! It’s so frightening that cancer is so prevalent. Thank you to John Wayne and his family for helping people suffering from this horrible illness. As I write this comment I am in the hospital for over a month and a half and I frankly don’t know what will happen. Watching Mr. Skinner’s videos are helping me get through the day. Mr. Skinner, I thank you sir.
Very well done I absolutely loved this documentary!! Thank you! I wanted to tell you that I love all your videos , it's your voice it is perfect for narrating! 😊 Looking forward to more keep up the great work and again, thank you! Blessings Kelly 💜
Thank you Mr Skinner for doing what you always do so well! The duke was a heck of a guy, loved the Duke, the world has lost an excellent human being,with a heck of a big heart. Hats off to the Duke and his family
What a man john Wayne was this was true grit biography.God bless him all the films cast family crew esp John Wayne him self we would not have so many great western movies to watch today.
I remember a time while crusing by his house in a boat in Newport Beach Harbor, CA,. He was sitting on his deck at the dock. I yelled out to him "Hello Duke" and He yelled back a hello to me. Thank for all you do Jerry. Well done.
I thought I knew everything about John Wayne from movies, news, tv..etc.. The part about the nuclear test near the movie set was news to me. Thank you for the insight. Great video.
That was a wonderful documentary. John Wayne of course is one of my favorites. My father introduced me to John Wayne. Before my father passed he would call me and say hey son John Wayne's on TV. I'd go over to his home and we would watch the movie together. Also my call/code name in my law enforcement career was Roster! My mentor Dale Moorefield (Rip) gave me that name after Rooster Cogburn! He said he liked the idea of one of his gunfighters being cocky.(story for another time) All three of these gentlemen are bigger than life to me. Great video thanks for sharing.
the Shootist was filmed in Carson City, NV, while I was in High school and lived there. We went down to the set and cheered for all our favorite actors. During one scene, Mr. Wayne walked from the set directly to his trailer- something unusual, as he would shake a few hands and allow a few pics. We were told he was tired- we didn't know. Had we known, we would have treated him differently, and I can only guess he couldn't have stood that. When we heard he passed, the whole city was devastated. His image was bigger than life, and he knew the nation really needed that image during those days. I'm 56 now and will never forget him.
@Tina Gallagher I'm 66 now & I totally agree with you. You're a very lucky lady to have been there to see his last film being made! Only a few weeks ago,I watched The Shootist ,uncut on a movie channel. Very big names indeed were in this great movie!♡
I'll say one thing those old time actors, celebrities, and professional athletes had way more class then they do today. Gordie Howe always had time to sign autographs because as he said if it wasn't for hockey he would have made a living in construction. And it seems there were many of those same type back in the day grateful for the opportunity. Now it's get lost kid I don't have time and get out of my way your standing in front of my limo.
Thank you Mr Skinner for presenting John Wayne's life in such a nice orderly & concise manner it was truthful but it wasn't filled with innuendo gossip or foolish crying. It was difficult back then to be married & to have a career in the business as one could see he made a lot of movies. There were more movies he made that you didn't even list. You couldn't. He was a great actor & what I thought was neat is he tried very hard to include his family even though it didn't work out the way he had hoped. It's very hard to be married to someone that famous. I'm sure that his wives felt they were ignored or disappearing. Like no one saw them. Although I don't feel he ever meant for them to be slighted. It was a different time back then. The Stars didn't think they had a right to tell us how we should live our lives. They just enjoyed living with what they had been given. they wanted that work and they knew that it was at our discretion their Fame. Now well we don't hold the power the media and the guilds themself hold the power they ruin a person's career not us. So they can create movies that we don't want to see change characters and do personalities we never would have wanted simply because they think that's what we should do instead of maybe writing something new it's taking them a hundred years to go back to the beginning? All the while they say we should accept them destroying our heroes and well that was a thing we have to have our two Heroes destroyed we'd want that. I grew up around Hollywood but my parents taught us they are no different than the rest of us. My music teachers were famous musicians and songwriters. As I Grew Older I was shocked to realize who these people really were. My father often met different people one of them James Stewart came out to see what my father would be doing that day and how they did it as he wouldn't be able to leave his home for the Street couldn't be driven on for 24 hours. Dad laid asphalt he was the supervisor for the sand and gravel Co. that came in and paved the streets. Mister Stewart was so interested in it he had my father come in and have lunch with him then he came out and watched while my father explained what they were doing as well as safety issues that Paving creates. My father explained all these different things and Mr Stewart was genuinely interested. People didn't know that Mr Stewart could read lips. The problem was in filming he wasn't able to always see a person's lips. They should have made it so he could start portraying a deaf person in parts he explained to my dad that well Hollywood didn't have time for someone like him anymore. My parents knew Mr Harrah of Harrah's Casino my parents weren't millionaires they were just regular people who likes to go to Reno Nevada and have a little fun. My mom always one enough to pay for our whole vacation clothes new clothes and toys for all of us and a really nice meal and a show for Mom Dad and her and a babysitter to watch his kids. Dad he had a very good Poker Face you never knew what he was thinking honestly us kids were a bit scared of him because we didn't know what he was thinking until he'd finally relax and put on that happy bright smile he was a Spencer Tracy look-alike who probably could have made a ton of money doing that but he never did all of my girlfriends swooned over him because people at that time still thought a lot about Spencer Tracy. Mr Tracy was older than my dad though but he didn't get to grow extremely old my father lived to be 89. I watched my father age gracefully in good health right to the end and I thought about Mr Tracy and the sadness that followed him all his life. Though my father's only son was murdered on Christmas Eve by ex-cons he had befriended from his job as a counselor my father never drank he was allergic to alcohol can you believe that a Scott's Irishman allergic do the spirits of any kind. We bought our house the first house my parents ever owned from the television star Leif Erikson from the television show High Chaparral. It wasn't really a big to do it was in a regular suburb put together just like any Track House of the 60s the only thing my parents thought was strange was the flocked wallpaper in the bathrooms later on I realized they probably got that out of the movie sets and the wall of mirrors on the opposite walls in the bathroom. But the rest was all done in heavy Spanish using railroad ties for bookshelves, fireplace mantel, the nice bar setup between the living room and the kitchen so you can have parties just like they had entertained. My father who was climbing up the corporate ladder in his work would have parties there and yet we've got the same kind of calls of hey I didn't make it home I got a ticket your daughter makes the drinks too strong boy was my face red but what could you say I was only 10. our neighbor would laugh and say you wouldn't believe how many people were parked down the whole driveway that went all the way back to the hay barn on the little half acre lot after their Halloween or Christmas Eve . Mr. Erickson was older so is his wife so they had kids grandkids coming by Hollywood people television stars and they treated the kids next door like grandkids they were in and out of the house and up and down the yard because in the back was a horse Arena and then eight separate paddocks with fenced exercise areas for the horses and a beautiful area for another small Arena or we used it as the chicken coop and then a great tack room and hay barn this kids had a wonderful time playing their living there. us girls were envious of the evening gowns that mrs. Erickson had given to the little girl next door her sister was so much older in didn't need the hand-me-downs anymore member was the 60s. because we bought their house we enjoyed watching the show even though it going off the air it was in syndication that's when he retired and moved to the retirement state that he wanted to be in it wasn't quite the show I thought it would be I thought it would be more supportive of the California nature of California before the Americans got control of California. I think mr. Erickson was disappointed it to it really didn't tell the true history of what it was like out here it just was another fake Western even more fake than the rest of them. in the end my dad's company decide to go back North and my dad's decided to strike out on his own and stay in California where he could work every day of the year not just when the snow didn't fly. We ended up moving to a small town our folks buying a former Mexican land grant property. It was the original Hacienda adobe house big giant windows, Adobe encased in concrete (that's how they were able to save them back then) & the roof has been raised into a high peak so it can have a second story. Over the years Dad made friends with many retired former Rodeo and movie stars as well as Louis L'Amour. My dad just had a way of ingratiating himself with people because maybe they knew he didn't expect anything from them he just wanted them to be people. Dad did work on Shirley Temple's property with us bulldozer then he sold it to her because well he didn't need any more for hours and it looked like they needed it all the time we grew up around the Hollywood people of that. But they weren't like today's Hollywood. Bowl today they think their privileged. it appears they forget they're simply playing a part. They're no smarter or wiser than the people who buy a ticket to see their movie and a lot of us aren't buying tickets. We're just downloading the movies. They like to give themselves awards that none of us even watch anymore maybe the young people who bought into the Kardashians who are nobodies trading their personal lives for frame. But give me a Maureen O'Hara John Wayne and I'm a happy camper. the rest can get on their learjets and fly to the next event where they sit and tell people how they should be instead of being appreciative of the fact that well we even still care about them.
That was a great video, the ending made me tear up my dad loved John, had all his films on VCR tapes and played them all the time, I lost my dad in 1997, after a long illness one of the very last tapes he watched was a John Wayne film. Thank you for this, it was very well done.
I'm so sorry about your Dad. I lost mine too and it's very hard. I hope that whenever you see a documentary like this or one of John Wayne's films it makes you smile too remembering your Dad.
My dad died of lung cancer and brain tumors last year. Until the end, he wanted to watch the Wayne collection we had. Rio Bravo was he's favorite though. One thought, though. Watching wayne smoking in EVERY film, all his fans were smoking too. And i want to make clear that i don't blame Wayne for this. I guess hollywood must recognize the crime that was selling in the 30s, 40s, 50s and on and on.
Thank you for this documentary. I loved John Wayne and cried the day he died. This brought back so many great memories from my childhood. Thanks again.
My Dad was a retired USAF Colonel who had a house across the bay in Balboa. When I was growing up and visiting my Dad he would tell me and my siblings to Yell "Hello Mr. Wayne" from the back on Dad's deck and Mr. Wayne always stopped what he was doing and Always Waved back to us kids.....we just loved that so much. but we NEVER realized we were in fact waving to The Duke! Great memories for a beach kid! Just a wonderful video Mr. Skinner and reading the other comments there is no question how much your time and effort spent on these video jewels is so appreciated! Thank You Sir....Cheers!
Stuport, If I remember correctly I knew a young man whose father was a retired Colonel that lived next door to the Duke this was in 1978 the young man worked at the PX at El Toro Air Station, If I remember correctly the boy that I knew said that his Father was a retired Marine, Or was that you that I knew and worked with at the PX?
If that was not you then do you know anyone who worked at the El Toro PX in 1978? I forgot the fellow's name. i knew that his Father lived next door to the Duke.
Seeing that you're still here I take it that your dad being the wise Colonel that he must have been kept all you kids out of the breakwater just a few hundred yards down the street and beach known locally as the "Wedge". So many drownings and broken necks with the huge waves and near shore breaks there and only the strongest of swimmers and body boarders dared go into the waters when 15 plus foot waves would break there... mighty expensive neighborhood where your dad lived and must have bought at a good time for the mansion style homes values there are now insanely out of touch except for the very rich. The Wedge is a popular South facing beach and due to a submarine canyon not to far off shore and the man made rock jetty the swells coming in are deceptive seemly small to medium size then all at one roar up to incredible size in a heartbeat reaching past 15' easily on a good day and sense all the waves break only a matter of feet from the beach the water current that it makes is nearly impossible to get out of and thus so many drownings and breaking of necks when slammed into the sand head 1st... Fun to stand on shore and watch but enter at your own peril
Thank you Jerry, this was such a great video, I really enjoyed. John Wayne used to live up here in the Antelope Valley, in Lancaster before he moved to Glendale. I'm in Palmdale which is right next to Lancaster. Wish I could have met him, I love all his movies. I'm especially fond of The Quiet Man.
Jerry Skinner you did a great job I learned a lot about the man I loved his films I miss the man so much you did him a tremendous honor Thank you so much
I actually watched one of his movies today (The Fighting Kentuckian) and probably watch at least one or two every month, his work is always on TV here in the UK. Really enjoyed your documentary. God Bless and RIP John Wayne.
I WISH WE HAD ALOT MORE MEN LIKE JOHN WAYNE TODAY 12-12-2020 , GOD KNOWS WE NEED THEM IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW . MR. WAYNE WAS A GREAT AMERICAN AND A GREAT MAN . SOMEONE OUR YOUNG MEN SHOULD ASPIRE TO BE.
John Wayne was #1 actor of all time. My mom and I could get my dad to the movies to see cowboy movies. Most were John Wayne. To a true hero by how he lived and treated people with his kind heart. His children were the apple in his eye. He made many movies with actors and actresses to show how he knew what great actors and actresses. He will always be missed. I truly loved Maureen O'Hara as well. I think she was and is my favorite actress and seemed to have my temperamentnt. I’m half Irish. No influence on my decision.😉 God Bless them all including their children.
You know, outside of America John Wayne has a bad reputation because of politics and the war movies. I've had many conversations with foreigners to try to make them understand who he really was, and what he meant and continues to mean to us Americans. Thanks so much, and what a way to bring it home with that ending. 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Awesome video Jerry loved it 👍 John Wayne is my favorite actor and always will be he is also my Hero the way he stood up for things and always stood his ground 🤠 He was a true American who loved his country and her flag 🇺🇸 I was just a little boy staying up late on Saturday nights watching old John Wayne movies with my Grandma she got me hooked on the Duke she also died from cancer God Bless Her 🎗 Keep up the great work thanks 🤠🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I can't tell you how much I just love John Wayne! I have loved him since I was a child and that love never wavered as I grew older! Thank you for this!
