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 ...

John Wayne finally earned Hollywood's highest honor with his unforgettable performance as Rooster Cogburn, one of his most ...

Wayne didn’t get along with his True Grit co-star, Kim Darby, but he pushed his feelings down for the sake of the motion picture. The actor ultimately wanted to give the role to his own daughter, but ...

There was a real-life Rooster. The discovery was shared in 2012 by Oklahoma author Brett Cogburn, a Western novelist whose only nonfiction book is titled “Rooster: The Life and Times of the Real ...