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
John Lynch (actor) Vivieros' first feature film, the prison drama "Ghosted". He played the role of Wollfstan in "Black Death", and appeared in the 2012 film version of Michael Morpurgo's novel, "Private Peaceful". Lynch is also a novelist. His first novel, "Torn Water", was published in November 2005 by the Fourth Estate, a literary imprint of Harper and Collins, and his second, "Falling Out of Heaven", was published on 13 May 2010 by the same publisher. John Lynch (actor) John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an Irish actor and novelist. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995