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Patrick Wayne
Patrick Wayne in McLintock! (1963)
Born
Patrick John Morrison

(1939-07-15) July 15, 1939 (age 85)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1950-1997
Spouse(s)Peggy Hunt (1965–1978)
Misha Anderson (1999–2015)
Children4
Parent(s)John Wayne
Josephine Alicia Saenz
RelativesMichael Wayne (brother)
Ethan Wayne (half-brother)

Patrick John Morrison (born July 15, 1939), better known by his stage name Patrick Wayne, is an American actor, the second son of movie star John Wayne and his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz. He made over 40 films, including eleven with his father.

Later in his career, Wayne became a game show host with The Monte Carlo Show and later Tic-Tac-Dough.

Early life and career

Born in Los Angeles, he is one of John Wayne's four children by his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz, daughter of Panama's Consul General to the U.S. He adopted his father's stage surname, Wayne. He made eleven movies with his father: Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), The Searchers (1956), The Alamo (1960), The Comancheros (1961), Donovan's Reef (1963), McLintock! (1963), The Green Berets (1968) and Big Jake (1971).

Patrick made his film debut at age 11 in his father's film Rio Grande. He followed that with films directed by family friend and iconic director John Ford: The Quiet Man, The Sun Shines Bright (1953), The Long Gray Line (1955), Mister Roberts (1955) and The Searchers (1956).

From 1957 to 1958, Wayne appeared as Walter on the CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, starring Howard Duff and Ida Lupino as a fictitious acting couple living in Beverly Hills. Other television work included the baseball teleplay Rookie of the Year (1955), directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, and Flashing Spikes (1962), a baseball television anthology installment directed by Ford and starring James Stewart, with John Wayne in an extended cameo role. Patrick Wayne played similar roles in both shows as baseball players.

Following high school, Patrick attended Loyola Marymount University, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity; he graduated in 1961. During this time, he struck out on his own to star in his own film The Young Land (1959). Patrick enlisted in the United States Coast Guard in 1961. He supported his father in The Alamo, Donovan's Reef, McLintock! and The Green Berets. He also appeared in Ford's sprawling epic Cheyenne Autumn (1964), as James Stewart's son in Shenandoah (1965), in An Eye for an Eye (1966), The Deserter (1971), and in a lead role in The Bears and I for Walt Disney (1974).

In 1966 at age 27, Wayne co-starred with Ron Hayes and Chill Wills in the 17-episode ABC comedy-western series The Rounders, based on the 1965 Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda film of the same name. Patrick also served a tour of duty with the United States Coast Guard.[1]

Throughout the 1970s he portrayed Marathon John in commercials for Mars Inc's Marathon candy bar.

Later works

Following work on his father's 1971 film Big Jake, Wayne earned recognition in the sci-fi genre. His career peaked in the late 1970s in the popular matinee fantasy Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), then in The People That Time Forgot (1977). Wayne also screen-tested for the title role of Superman.[2] He co-starred as a romantic love interest to Shirley Jones in another brief TV series, Shirley (1979). He was the host of The Monte Carlo Show in 1980, and occasionally worked on game shows and syndicated variety series.

Wayne had many appearances on popular television series of the 1970s and 1980s, including Fantasy Island (1978), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Charlie's Angels (1976), Sledge Hammer! (1986), and The Love Boat.[1] Wayne appeared in the movie Young Guns (1988) as Pat Garrett. He also did a comic turn in the Western spoof Rustler's Rhapsody (1985) starring Tom Berenger.

Wayne served as the host of the 1990 revival of the game show Tic-Tac-Dough.

In 2003, Wayne became chairman of the John Wayne Cancer Institute.[1]

In December 2015, Wayne travelled to Spain to receive the prize "Almeria Tierra de Cine" in Almeria, Andalucia for his long career in the cinema, and in his acceptance speech he noted that his maternal grandparents were born in Madrid and that he is half Spanish.[citation needed]

Wayne currently lives in Arizona.[citation needed]

Filmography

Television

Documentaries/DVD special features

  • Hollywood Greats, episode "John Wayne": himself (1984)
  • A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and the Searchers (1998)
  • The Quiet Man: The Joy of Ireland" himself (2002)
  • 50 Films to See Before You Die, TV movie documentary: himself (2006)
  • American Masters, episode "John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend": himself (2006)
  • 100 Years of John Wayne, TV movie documentary short: himself (2007)
  • The Personal Property of John Wayne, video documentary (2011)

References

  1. ^ a b c Patrick Wayne at IMDb
  2. ^ http://www.supermansupersite.com/0421242.html
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Preceded by
Jim Caldwell
 Host of Tic Tac Dough
1990-1991 		Succeeded by
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