Originally posted by SIG220
McQueen and Wayne are both dead though.
Eastwood is one celebrity that I would enjoy meeting. He is not just a talented actor, but has actually produced and directed many fine movies, including two Academy award winners.
Even John Wayne never accomplished that.
Are you sure about that?
1944—co-founder, Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals; 1947—film producer: formed Wayne-Fellows Productions and Batjac production
1960—directed the film The Alamo.
Awards: Best Actor Academy Award, for True Grit, 1969.
1968 The Green Berets co-director
Films produced by Wayne-Fellows Production
Track of the Cat (1954)
Ring of Fear (1954)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
Hondo (1953)
Island in the Sky (1953)
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
Big Jim McLain (1952)
Films produced by Batjac Productions
McQ (1974)
Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)
The Train Robbers (1973)
Big Jake (1971)
Rio Lobo (1970) (uncredited)
Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970) (TV)
Chisum (1970)
The Green Berets (1968)
"Hondo: Hondo and the Death Drive (#1.13)" (1967) ...
"Hondo" (1967)
Hondo and the Apaches (1967) (TV)
The War Wagon (1967) (as A Batjac Presentation)
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
McLintock! (1963) (presents) (as Batjac)
The Alamo (1960)
Escort West (1958)
China Doll (1958)
Legend of the Lost (1957)
Man in the Vault (1956)
Gun the Man Down (1956)
Seven Men from Now (1956)
Good-bye, My Lady (1956)
Blood Alley (1955) (as A Batjac Production)
Island in the Sky (1953)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000078951Batjac was the name of John Wayne's independent production company, formed in 1952 as Wayne/Fellows Productions. When Wayne and producer Robert Fellows ended their short-lived partnership, Wayne changed the company's name to Batjack, named after a fictitious trading company in Wayne's 1948 film Wake of the Red Witch; his secretary misspelled the name "Batjac" on company documents, and Wayne didn't bother to correct her, so the name stuck. Batjac produced 30 films between 1952 and 1974, and because most of them were owned or licensed by their distributors, many were released on VHS (and eventually, DVD) under normal contractual conditions.