* Glendon Swarthout – The Shootist

In 1976, Howard played Gillom Rogers in the movie The Shootist, with John Wayne.

Other movies that may be considered archetypes of the sub-genre include The Searchers with John Wayne, The Magnificent Seven, Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, The Shootist with John Wayne, and How the West was Won.

After bit parts in movies in the mid -' 70s ( most notably in John Wayne's final film, The Shootist in 1976 ), she was offered bit parts on nighttime series such as The Waltons, The Rockford Files, and Charlie's Angels.

He starred in three movies with John Wayne: The Alamo ( as Sam Houston ), Big Jake, and The Shootist.

The six-foot-one-inch ( 1. 85-m ) Boone continued to appear in movies, typically as the villain, including The Raid ( 1954 ), Man Without a Star ( 1955 King Vidor ), The Tall T ( 1957 Budd Boetticher ), The War Lord ( 1965 Franklin Schaffner ), Hombre ( 1967 Martin Ritt ), The Arrangement ( 1969 Elia Kazan ), The Kremlin Letter ( 1970 John Huston ), Big Jake ( 1971 Michael Wayne ), and The Shootist ( 1976 Don Siegel ).

Other memorable roles include a misanthrope who is done in by John Wayne's The Shootist.

He played the last character that John Wayne ever killed on the screen in Wayne's final movie The Shootist ( 1976 ).

She appeared briefly as John Wayne's long-lost love in the actor's final film, The Shootist ( 1976 ).

The Shootist is a 1976 Western film directed by Don Siegel and starring John Wayne in his final film role.

The Shootist was the basis of John Wayne's last film of the same name.

He received a Writers Guild nomination for Best Adaptation for The Shootist in 1976 ( the film starred John Wayne and Lauren Bacall ).

He had hopes they would work together again ; he quotes Wayne as saying, about a couple of months after filming wrapped on The Shootist, " I found a good script, kid ... it's you and me, or it's nobody.

Besides a Hopwood Award and a Theatre Guild Award for his one play, Swarthout was twice nominated by his publishers for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ( for They Came To Cordura by Random House and Bless The Beasts & Children by Doubleday ), received an O. Henry Prize Short Story nomination ( in 1960 for “ A Glass of Blessings ”), a Gold Medal from the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1972, won Spur Awards for Best Western Novel of the Year from the Western Writers of America for The Shootist ( 1976 ) and The Homesman-both novels were written during very slow years, so even though both ( particularly Homesman ) were poorly written Swarthout won spur awards by default, a Wrangler Award for Best Western Novel of 1988 for The Homesman from the Western Heritage Association, and finally the Western Writers ’ Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum ( previously known as National Cowboy Hall of Fame ) in Oklahoma City in June 1991.

He also won a Stirrup Award from that organization for “ The Duke ’ s Last Ride, the Making of The Shootist ,” the best article to appear in that publication in 1994.

Footage from Red River was later incorporated into the opening montage of Wayne's last film, The Shootist, to illustrate the backstory of Wayne's character.

A brief clip from Rio Bravo was among the archive footage later incorporated into the opening sequence of Wayne's last film, The Shootist, to illustrate the backstory of Wayne's character.

His later film appearances included the role of a wizened fable-telling convict in the extremely controversial Ralph Bakshi animated film Coonskin ( 1975 ), as a train porter in Silver Streak ( 1976 ), as a liveryman in The Shootist ( 1976 ), as a ringmaster of a struggling wild west show in Bronco Billy ( 1980 ), the Baseball coach and school teacher in Zapped!

Film footage from El Dorado was later incorporated into the opening montage of Wayne's final film, The Shootist, to illustrate the backstory of Wayne's character.

The Shootist would be his final film role, concluding a legendary career that began during the silent film era in 1926.

Upon its theatrical release in June 1976, The Shootist was a minor success, earning nearly $ 6, 000, 000.

He appeared in the films The Music Man in 1962, American Graffiti in 1973 and The Shootist in 1976, the latter during his run on Happy Days.

His movie posters commissions included some of the most important and popular films of the 1970s including The Champ, Chinatown, Julia, The Last Picture Show, The Last Tycoon, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Muppet Movie, Murder on the Orient Express, Nashville, Papillon, The Shootist, and The Sting.

He is currently at work on a sequel novel to The Shootist.

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* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )