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He was politically a conservative, an anti-Communist, and a supporter of [[Richard Nixon]], [[Barry Goldwater]], [[Spiro Agnew]], and [[Ronald Reagan]]. He supported the war in Vietnam and starred in a movie about it, ''The Green Berets,'' which irritated critics such as Roger Ebert who wrote: "What we certainly do not need is a movie depicting Vietnam in terms of cowboys and Indians.... We need no more propaganda. But propaganda is what we get in 'The Green Berets,' a heavy-handed, remarkably old-fashioned film."<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680626/REVIEWS/806260301/1023 The Green Berets], Robert Ebert's 1968 review</ref>

He was politically a conservative, an anti-Communist, and a supporter of [[Richard Nixon]], [[Barry Goldwater]], [[Spiro Agnew]], and [[Ronald Reagan]]. He supported the war in Vietnam and starred in a movie about it, ''The Green Berets,'' which irritated critics such as Roger Ebert who wrote: "What we certainly do not need is a movie depicting Vietnam in terms of cowboys and Indians.... We need no more propaganda. But propaganda is what we get in 'The Green Berets,' a heavy-handed, remarkably old-fashioned film."<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680626/REVIEWS/806260301/1023 The Green Berets], Robert Ebert's 1968 review</ref>

He appeared in over two hundred films. Some of them include the classic Westerns ''Stagecoach,'' ''Red River,'' and ''The Searchers;'' the patriotic war movies ''They Were Expendable,'' ''Sands of Iwo Jima,'' and ''The Green Berets;'' and films that departed from the John Wayne stereotype, ''The Long Voyage Home,'' ''The Quiet Man,'' and ''True Grit.''

He appeared in over two hundred films. His classic Westerns included ''Stagecoach,'' ''Red River,'' and ''The Searchers;'' patriotic war movies included ''They Were Expendable,'' ''Sands of Iwo Jima,'' and ''The Green Berets;'' and films that departed from the John Wayne stereotype included ''The Long Voyage Home,'' ''The Quiet Man,'' and ''True Grit.''

He won only one Academy Award: "Best Actor," in 1969, for ''True Grit.''

He won only one Academy Award: "Best Actor," in 1969, for ''True Grit.''