Noun
shootist (plural shootists)
(chiefly US, archaic) A person who is an expert user of firearms, especially a sharpshooter or a gunslinger in the Old West.
His last film was The Shootist (1976), whose main character, J. B. Books, was dying of cancer—the illness to which Wayne himself succumbed three years later. Source: Internet
In his final screen performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in The Shootist (1976). Source: Internet
Stewart returned to films after an absence of five years with a major supporting role in John Wayne 's final film, The Shootist (1976) where Stewart played a doctor giving Wayne's gunfighter a terminal cancer diagnosis. Source: Internet
Wayne's final film, The Shootist (1976), is often compared to The Gunfighter and contains numerous plot similarities. Source: Internet