Who was John Wayne’s best friend?

Ernie Saftig was one of John Wayne’s longest and closest friends.

Did John Wayne and Clint Eastwood get along?

It just so happens, that Eastwood incurred the displeasure of such a legendary cowboy—none other than John Wayne. Eastwood starred in the 1973 film High Plains Drifter which he also directed. Now a classic, the film was absolutely hated by John Wayne, an iconic figure in the western genre and Eastwood’s senior.

Did John Wayne and Richard Widmark get along?

John Wayne and Richard Widmark famously did not get along during filming. Since Widmark was a liberal Democrat who opposed blacklisting and supported the civil-rights movement and gun control – positions diametrically opposed to Wayne’s – it was long rumored that politics had been the cause of the problem.

Was Robert Mitchum friends with John Wayne?

Despite the fact that John Wayne had fired Robert Mitchum from Blood Alley (1955) ten years earlier, he was happy to work with Mitchum again, and they became good friends.