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Finest performance = The Shootist
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 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.'' His finest performance, however, was perhaps alongside [[Lauren Bacall]] in ''The Shootist'', his final film released in 1976.
==Notes and references==
==Notes and references==