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
Ethan Wayne Ethan Wayne John Ethan Wayne (born February 22, 1962) is an American actor. The son of actor John Wayne and his third wife, Pilar Pallete, he grew up in Newport Beach, California, where he shared his father's love of the ocean and outdoors. His name was chosen in direct relation to John Wayne's character in "The Searchers" ("Ethan Edwards"). He played Little Jake, the grandson of his father's title character in "Big Jake". Ethan started doing stunt work after the death of his father in 1979. His first film was "The Blues Brothers". He then went back to work as