#john-wayne

#john-wayne

John Wayne starred in more than 175 movies over a career spanning five decades, and filmed hundreds of memorable scenes. In one of these many iconic scenes, from the 1962 Western “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” the Hollywood superstar picks a fight at a steakhouse. “That’s my steak, Valance,” he tells the bad guy, who’s just tripped the owner and sent a juicy steak flying across the restaurant floor. Wayne has one hand on the gun in his holster, ready to start shooting at a moment’s notice.

As a mainstay at many of the restaurants in the Newport Beach, California area - where he lived from 1966 until his death in 1979 - the Duke was known to love a big steak. The steakhouse beloved by the old Hollywood star, Gulliver's, is located directly across from John Wayne Airport in Irvine.