John Wayne Highlands, fierce fighters against communism, bestowed on Wayne a brass bracelet that he wore in the film and all subsequent films. Wayne finally won a Best Actor Oscar for "True Grit" (1969), two decades after his only other nomination. Wayne took on the role of the eponymous detective in the crime drama "McQ" (1974). His last film was "The Shootist" (1976), whose main character, J. B. Books, was dying of cancer—which Wayne himself succumbed to three years later. "The Shootist" (1976) contains numerous plot similarities to "The Gunfighter" of nearly thirty years before, a role which Wayne had wanted but
Oscar Millard the deliriously bad John Wayne-Susan Hayward barbarian epic "The Conqueror" (1956), a film probably more famous now for filming in a nuclear bomb testing site and most of the cast and crew succumbing to early, cancer-related deaths. After that, Millard found consistent work on television, writing scripts for such shows as "Wagon Train", "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" for which his was awarded in 2013 by the Writers Guild of America (101 Best written TV Series) and "Twelve O'Clock High". Oscar Millard Oscar Millard (March 1, 1908 – December 7, 1990) was an English writer who found success in Hollywood when