Rooster Cogburn (character)
- Rooster Cogburn (character)
Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn is a fictional American Old West character who first appears in the 1968 Charles Portis novel, "True Grit". The novel was adapted into a movie 1969 film, "True Grit", and from that a 1975 sequel entitled "Rooster Cogburn" (also known as "Rooster Cogburn (... and the Lady)") was also produced.
In both films, Rooster was portrayed by John Wayne. Wayne garnered his only Oscar for his performance in the first of the two movies. Cogburn is portrayed as an anti-hero, which was an unusual role for Wayne, who usually played a strait-laced hero.
Rooster Cogburn was also featured in a 1978 made-for-TV sequel, called "," starring Warren Oates in the featured role.Cogburn is a veteran of the American Civil War who probably served under Confederate guerilla leader William Quantrill. He was once married to an Illinois woman, who left him to return to her first husband after bearing Cogburn a single, extremely clumsy son (of whom Cogburn says, "He never liked me anyway."). Cogburn is described as a "fearless, one-eyed U.S. marshal who never knew a dry day in his life." He is "the toughest marshal" working the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) on behalf of Judge Isaac Parker, [ [http://www.rollspel.com/engelsk/western/eparker.htm Isaac "Hanging Judge" Parker ] ] the real-life judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas (having criminal jurisdiction in the Indian Territory, as the bailiff repeatedly announces in both films).
In the first film, Cogburn helps a headstrong 14-year-old girl, Mattie Ross (played by Kim Darby), to track down Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey), the man who drunkenly killed her father. In the sequel, he teams up with elderly spinster Eula Goodnight (Katharine Hepburn) and Wolf (Richard Romancito) while on the trail of a desperado, Hawk (Richard Jordan), who has stolen a shipment of nitroglycerin from the U.S. Army.
Cogburn lives in Fort Smith, Arkansas in the back of a Chinese dry-goods store, along with the proprietor, his friend and gambling buddy Chen Lee, and an orange tabby cat named after Confederate Gen. Sterling Price.
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