These Are The Greatest Action Stars of All Time

John Wayne

John Wayne is the Western movie icon. He was in some iconic movies like Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Longest Day, and True Grit. He was one of the biggest stars in the late '30s well into the '70s. Wayne was basically the blueprint!

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The More You Know

  • Peter O’Toole was nominated for eight performance Oscars and didn’t win a single one.
  • Brad Pitt and Edward Norton actually learned how to make soap in Fight Club.
  • The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
  • The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
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