True Grit (1969 film) Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Corey and Strother Martin. The title song, sung by Campbell, was also Oscar-nominated. "True Grit" was adapted again in 2010, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Hailee Steinfeld. Frank Ross is murdered by his hired hand, Tom Chaney. Ross's young daughter, Mattie, travels to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where she hires aging U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" J. Cogburn to bring Chaney in, raising his fee by shrewdly horse trading with Colonel Stonehill. Mattie has heard that Cogburn has "true grit." She gives him a payment to track and capture Chaney, who has taken up with outlaw
John McIntire and the Culhane". McIntire replaced actor Charles Bickford (who had himself replaced Lee J. Cobb) on NBC's "The Virginian" in 1967 when Bickford died. McIntire played Clay Grainger, the brother of Bickford's character for four seasons, a major recurring leading role in a weekly 90-minute western series similar in size and scope to his earlier work on "Wagon Train." He played the supporting role of Judge Parker in "Rooster Cogburn" (1975), the sequel to "True Grit" starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn, and appeared as Owen Keating in the 1977 television miniseries "Aspen". His final film role was in "Turner