Rooster Cogburn (film) that has hijacked a wagon shipment of nitroglycerin. He is helped by a spinster searching for her father's killer. "Rooster Cogburn" is a sequel to the 1969 film "True Grit", which won for Wayne his only Academy Award for Best Actor in 1970. Because of his drunkenness and questionable use of firearms, aging one-eyed (wearing a distinctive black eye patch) U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) in the Indian Territory (future Oklahoma) has been stripped of his badge by Judge Parker (John McIntire) at the territorial capital of Fort Smith, Arkansas for excessive violence fatness and drunkenness, complaining he had
John Alexander (actor) John Alexander (actor) John Alexander (November 29, 1897 – July 13, 1982) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was born on November 29, 1897, in Newport, Kentucky. His father owned steamboats and his mother was a telegraph operator. He had career spanning more than 55 years on Broadway with his first role as the title character in "Elmer Brown, the Only Boy in Town" in 1908/1909. Perhaps his most memorable performance was as Teddy Brewster, a lunatic who thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt, in the 1944 classic film "Arsenic and Old Lace" opposite Cary Grant. He had