Dorothy Jordan (American actress) Ford, forming Argosy Productions in 1947. It was for Argosy's "The Sun Shines Bright", directed by Ford in 1953, that Jordan again came out of retirement, for a small role. She later had a small role as the sister-in-law of John Wayne's character, Ethan Edwards, who seeks Jordan's daughter, played by Natalie Wood, in the epic 1956 Argosy film "The Searchers". Jordan appeared once more, in a small role in the John Ford film "The Wings of Eagles" in 1957 before retiring permanently. Jordan and Cooper lived in Coronado, California and remained married until his death of cancer on April
John Wayne filmography John Wayne filmography A complete filmography of John Wayne from 1926 to 1977, which also includes those films that Wayne only produced, and results pertaining to his long-running box office popularity between 1949 and 1973, during the height of his career after a decade of starring in a succession of low-budget B-movies. Wayne began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in "The Big Trail" (1930), an epic Western shot in an