It's been over thirty years since he made a movie, and almost thirty years ago that he died, but John Wayne is again on the Harris Poll List of Top Ten Movie Stars!! He is the ONLY star whose name has appeared in the top ten since the list was started in 1994!

Read about it here (http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=859).

And if you would like to read previous threads about the Harris Poll, you can go here (http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=278&highlight=Harris+Poll), and here (http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=620&highlight=Harris+Poll), and here (http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=1197&highlight=Harris+Poll), and here (http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=1807&highlight=Harris+Poll).

Not bad for a dead guy!

Chester :newyear:

Was there ever any doubt? Duke is timeless!
Cheers - Jay:beer:

the guy was a living icon but he should have got oscars for sandsof iwo jima plus searchers two brillant movies by the great man:hyper:

Not bad for a dead guy!

I think the only other who even comes close is Elvis.

On the American Movies Classics site, there is an on-going poll on that site listing I think twenty or so movies-two of which are John Wayne movies: The Searchers and Stagecoach-to be exact and, the N~U~M~B~E~R~1 Western hero that comes up is J~O~H~N~ W~A~Y~N~E for the movie: T~H~E S~E~A~R~C~H~E~R~S.

I took part and did my duty ;-))

Funny, this poll also displays that Duke is the only one to rank since this started out. No one, and I mean no one has ranked every year. The closest one is Denzel Washington (1) and Tom Hanks (2) tie with 11 appearances in the top 10 out of 14 years. And Clint Eastwood dropped out of the top 10 this year. Very interesting poll, but we already knew that he is the greatest. We don't need a poll to tell us, but it is nice to see that others recognize this.

Cheers :cool: Hondo

Very interresting result.
It was prooved that Duke is the superstar who continued being loved alltime
in this.
But i can't understand poorness of actress.
I think that besides Julia and Sandra, there is many great actresses.
Nicole Kidman,Kate Winslet,Rene Zellweger,Hallie Barry etc.etc.
Wonder that the American makes light of an actress?

Regards,
H.sanada

"The Duke" will probably be in the top 10, for a L O N G time!

I wonder how this is conducted and how Duke continues to show that he is ranked in the top 10 every year. I do know one thing, it's not taken in Hollywood.

Cheers :cool:

But sadly, I have stumbled across a few people who have no idea who the heck Duke is, and they refuse to watch his movies because.... now this is a good one.... they're old.

But sadly, I have stumbled across a few people who have no idea who the heck Duke is, and they refuse to watch his movies because.... now this is a good one.... they're old.

I get the same excuse as well as this; the old movies are not realistic. If that is their attitudes then they don't appreciate the cinema. And they don't understand movies.

Cheers :cool:

It frustrates me beyond belief, all they want is to watch those damn Saw movies and almost anything that's got gratuitous blood and guts and violence.

Alright Lt. B. That's enough with the profanity. Now I wasn't always a fan of the classics, but once I discovered Duke, a whole new world opened up for me. A world of classic movies and actors.

But the one thing that concerns me is that Duke slipped in the polls. What can we as a group do to propel him to the number one position?

I get the same excuse as well as this; the old movies are not realistic.
As if today's movies, with all the computer generated graphics and special effects, are REALISTIC! Yeah, somebody gets thrown 100 feet against a wall and stomped mercilessly, and can still get up and fight - sure, that's realistic. Some of today's movies are as realistic as yesteryear's cartoons!

Now regarding gt12pak's comment and question

But the one thing that concerns me is that Duke slipped in the polls. What can we as a group do to propel him to the number one position?
Hm-m-m-m-m, I don't have an answer. Do we all sign up for the Harris Poll and hope to be included next year when they do it again??

Chester :newyear:

You thank that's profane Gt, you would die of a stroke if you watched the Saw movies :vomit:. I don't know how to register to vote on those celebrity polls, I do know that I am signed up for their surveys but I didn't get any of those celebrity polls.

Anyway it's good to see ya, Deputy Gt.

The Mrs. is signed up there too, but she says she has never seen a celebrity poll, either.

Here is the info for signing up, though, if anyone is interested -


Join the Harris Poll Online
To become a member of the Harris Poll Online and be invited to participate in future online surveys, visit www.harrispollonline.com (http://www.harrispollonline.com/).
Chester :newyear:

The Mrs. is signed up there too, but she says she has never seen a celebrity poll, either.
Chester :newyear:

That makes me feel better, at least I didn't simply overlook it then. Thanks for that tidbit, Chester. :wink_smile:

Well, I think its a start to have everyone registered. I just did it and its really easy and free!! Even if just one of us gets a chance to vote it's better then last year.

You know the beauty of this country?

You know you don't have to watch those movies if they offend you. I have never seen the SAW movies (nor plan to).

My buddy Stumpy doesn't go to movies because of the quality that's out there today, and I support his decision. I don't see as many as I did in the past. Let's face it, they don't make them like they use to. I like the classics more and thank God for the ability to see them today.

Unfortunately, it seems that the majority want to see the junk out there and the unrealistic movies that is impossible for man to do. They call it imagination. I call it lack of imagination.

It doens't really bother me that Duke slipped this year. He may go off the top 10, but the fact that he has been listed for 14 years this poll has been taken and he's been gone for almost 29 years says a lot. You should appreciate that. He's been going up and down the polls but he still remains on the poll.

Cheers :cool:

That fact that he's even on there is amazing enough, that he's on the top ten is unbelievable!

So what does everyone think? Would a few hundred extra votes put him back to nunber one?

So what does everyone think? Would a few hundred extra votes put him back to number one?
Well, it couldn't hurt. If nothing else, those votes could guarantee he stays in the top ten, and maybe gains in position.

If you look at the chart that shows the top ten since the poll's inception, Duke has been number only one time, and he's jumped around, going up and down between one and seven in the past 14 years. He's been number one 1 time, number two 5 times, number three 2 times, number four 1 time, number six 3 times, number seven 2 times. He's been in the top 4 for nine out of fourteen years!

Here's what it says at Harris Interactive (bold emphasis mine) regarding the most recent "America's Favorite Actor" poll -


This Harris Poll® was conducted online within the United States December 4 and 12, among 1,114 adults (aged 18 and over). Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents’ propensity to be online. All sample surveys and polls, whether or not they use probability sampling, are subject to multiple sources of error which are most often not possible to quantify or estimate, including sampling error, coverage error, error associated with nonresponse, error associated with question wording and response options, and post-survey weighting and adjustments. Therefore, Harris Interactive avoids the words "margin of error" as they are misleading. All that can be calculated are different possible sampling errors with different probabilities for pure, unweighted, random samples with 100% response rates. These are only theoretical because no published polls come close to this ideal.


Respondents for this survey were selected from among those who have agreed to participate in Harris Interactive surveys. The data have been weighted to reflect the composition of the adult population. Because the sample is based on those who agreed to participate in the Harris Interactive panel, no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.
These statements conform to the principles of disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.So signing up and being willing to participate in their polls is the only way anyone can possibly be chosen to take part in that one. No guarantees, as they only select a little over a thousand people, but absolutely no chance if you're not signed up with them.

Chester :newyear:

When will Hollywood ever take notice of his continued popularity and direct some output towards that particular audience? In a profit driven industry, you would think they would want to make some profit!

Yakima