Director and actor
John Ford averages 7.00, John Wayne averages 6.47. Apart that suggests 6.74; together they average 7.26, a lift of +0.52.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
Dot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.
Each column is a film in release order. Filled squares mark who was in it, colored by the film's rating.
| 1939 | 7.8 | 59,818 | Director | as Ringo Kid | |
| The Long Voyage Home | 1940 | 6.9 | 5,625 | Director, Producer | as Olsen |
| They Were Expendable | 1945 | 7.2 | 10,403 | Producer, Director | as Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan |
| 1948 | 7.0 | 11,804 | Director | as Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower | |
| 1948 | 7.4 | 21,683 | Director | as Capt. Kirby York | |
| 1949 | 7.2 | 21,121 | Director | as Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles | |
| 1950 | 7.0 | 19,668 | Director | as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke | |
| 1952 | 7.7 | 46,458 | Writer, Director | as Sean Thornton | |
| 1956 | 7.8 | 104K | Director | as Ethan Edwards | |
| The Wings of Eagles | 1957 | 6.6 | 5,059 | Director | as Frank W. 'Spig' Wead |
| 1959 | 7.1 | 13,328 | Director | as Col. John Marlowe | |
| 1962 | 7.1 | 25,928 | Director | as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman (segment: The Civil War) | |
| 1962 | 8.1 | 89,964 | Director | as Tom Doniphon | |
| 1963 | 6.7 | 10,916 | Director, Producer | as Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan |
| Ward Bond |
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| Henry Fonda |
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| Victor McLaglen |
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| George O'Brien |
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| Maureen O'Hara |
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| John Carradine |
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| Harry Carey Jr. |
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| Harry Carey |
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| Warren Hymer |
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