| − | 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. 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.'' |