John Wayne , born Marion Robert Morrison the May 26th 1907 with Winterset (Iowa, the United States of America and deceased the June 11th 1979 with Los Angeles (the United States of America), was a Acteur, producing Réalisateur and American, which played in many westerns, police films, films of war and some comedies romantic. Symbol of a certain virility and American icon, it was called “The Duke”.

Youth of John Wayne

After the birth of his/her Robert younger brother, his parents changed his identity into Marion Mitchell Morrison . However John Wayne often affirmed that its true name would have been Marion Michael Morrison .

Born in a modest family and presbytérienne, her father is Clyde Leonard Morrison, of ascent Irish E and Scottish E and wire of a veteran of the American Civil War. His/her mother is Mary Alberta Brown, of Irish origin.

The family settles in California in Glendale in 1911. As of this time, John Wayne is called “Big Duke” in reference to his dog, “Little Duke”, which it took along everywhere with him.

Its youth is marked by a certain poverty. At the school, it belongs to the good pupils. He becomes a star of Football of his college and is recruited, under the sporting purses, by the the University of California of the South where he joined a fraternity, Sigma Chi. He also plays in the football team but a wound causes the premature end of its sporting career and its school Bourse makes him lose. It is then obliged to put an end to its studies for financial reasons.

During its academic years, it had started to work for local movie studios. During a job of summer, it becomes acquainted with John Ford with which will bind a great friendship during its whole life. Thus it appears for the first time at the cinema with its football team in the film Maker off Men (1930). With the credits, John Wayne is still credited under his name with Marion Morrison.

Artistic career

He occupies a particular position in the Pantheon of the stars of Hollywood to have interpreted one role in 175 films with the credits of which he appears, but to have made of it a Mythe and universally accessible Archétype: that of the hero who never dies, with the reassuring presence, independent, solid against any test, with a charisma of chief, unquestionable of his ideas without never calling them in question and without the situation never giving him wrong. It can make use of its fists and its weapons but to only defend oneself, except when it is about a good collective brawl. It is in extreme cases of the Machisme but intimidated and badly at ease in front of the women. This single character always places good side, even if it is not necessarily first of all committed there.

Some films emblematic, pertaining to the anthology of the cinema: the fantastic Ride , the Man who killed Liberty Valance , Rio Bravo , the quiet Man .

John Wayne was known for his patriotic opinions, anticommunists and preserving. Star of the Republican party, it implied himself in the creation of “Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation off American Ideals”, an American association of cinema preserving. While being made declare inapt during the Second world war, it cosigne, in 1968, with green Berets the only American film openly pro-war of Vietnam.

In 1964, one diagnoses at Wayne a Lung cancer. Rumors affirm that the person in charge of this cancer was the nuclear site of Flat Yucca, near to the plate of cinema during turning of the film the Conqueror (91 of the 220 people having taken part in turning developed a cancer and 46 died about it, in the thirty years which followed). John Wayne thought, him, which the person in charge was the three cigarette packs that he smoked per day.

In 1964, it still supports the candidature of Barry Goldwater for the presidency of the United States and in 1968, is approximate to be itself the candidate of the Republican party. It declined the proposal with the pretext which it did not think that the public could send an actor to the White House. It was even approximate to be the fellow candidate of the candidate Dixiecrat George Wallace. It did not take action pursuant. John Wayne was however a burning support of his friend, the actor Ronald Reagan at the time of his candidatures for the post of governor of California in 1966 and 1970.

After still some films with beginning of the year 70, he dies finally of a cancer of the stomach on June 11th, 1979 1. He is buried with the cemetery of Pacific View in Corona del Mar.

Selective catalog of films

French voices of John Wayne

See also: John Wayne: List French voices

Internal bond

The airport of the County of Orange, in California, bears its name (Aéroport John-Wayne).

External bonds

  • John Wayne, the last of the giants

  • John Wayne Institute Cancer (in English)
  • Wayne Enterprises
  • Card IMDb
  • Biography on Western Movies
  • the film '' the Angel and the evil '' (1947) in its original version on the site of Internet Files.
  • a site on the turning of the '' Conquérant ''

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