D'entre a suya ampla filmografía, se puet destacar bellas cintas, como The Lost Patrol (1934, con Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff y Wallace Ford), The Informer (1935, con Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford y Una O'Connor), Stagecoach (1939, con Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, Andy Devine y George Bancroft), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939, con Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, John Carradine y Ward Bond), The Grapes of Wrath (1940, con Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Shirley Mills, John Qualen y Eddie Quillan), How Green Was My Valley (1941, con Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp y Roddy McDowall), They Were Expendable (1945, con Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond y Marshall Thompson), My Darling Clementine (1946, con Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell y Walter Brennan), Fort Apache (1948, con John Wayne y Henry Fonda), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949, con John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Victor McLaglen, Ben Johnson y Harry Carey Jr.), Rio Grande (1950, con John Wayne y Maureen O'Hara), Mogambo (1953, con Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly y Donald Sinden), The Searchers (1956, John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles y Ward Bond y Natalie Wood), The Wings of Eagles (1957, con John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond y Ken Curtis), The Horse Soldiers (1959, con John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers y Althea Gibson), Two Rode Together (1961, con James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones y Linda Cristal), The Quiet Man (1962, con John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond y Victor McLaglen), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, con John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode, Andy Devine, John Carradine y Lee Van Cleef), Cheyenne Autumn (1964, con Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Dolores del Río, Edward G. Robinson y Karl Malden).