True Grit (1969 film) Their adaptation focuses more on Mattie's point of view, as in the novel, and is more faithful to its Oklahoma setting. Hailee Steinfeld portrays Mattie Ross, Jeff Bridges plays Rooster Cogburn, and the cast also includes Matt Damon as La Boeuf and Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney. True Grit (1969 film) True Grit is a 1969 American western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Kim Darby as Mattie Ross and John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn. It is the first film adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Marguerite Roberts.
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