American", when he collected Gary Cooper (I) (qv)s Best Actor  Oscar on his behalf at the  _25th Annual Academy Awards, The (1953) (TV)_ (qv) he complained  that he wasnt offered the part himself, so he could have made it  more like one of his own westerns. He later teamed up with director  Howard Hawks (qv) to make _Rio Bravo (1959)_ (qv) as a right