John Wayne

Also known as Marion Mitchell Morrison, Marion Robert Morrison, Marion Morrison, The Duke, Duke

American actor (1907–1979)

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John Wayne was an American actor who became one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars during the 20th century, known especially for Western films. He matters because he became an iconic cultural figure whose films and public persona significantly shaped American entertainment and popular culture for decades.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 39

Top works

John Wayne Adventure Comics No. 18
John Wayne Adventure Comics No. 27
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John Wayne Adventure Comics No. 24

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1982-09-27

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Discography

Lil Wayne Vs. T.I.
Tha Block Is Hot1999
Lights Out2000
500 Degreez2002
Tha Carter2004
Tha Carter II2005
Like Father, Like Son2006
When The North & South Collide Unloaded2007
Tha Carter III2008
Rebirth2009

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 36,993
Total plays: 718,281

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis
· 2012 · cited 58,965x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,330x
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,187x

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Quotes

“We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!”
“In fact, I don't even call myself an actor. I'm a reactor. I listen to what to what the other guys says and I react to it. That's the John Wayne method.”
“I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.”
“There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean, ya know. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”
“With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.”
“The picture business has grown up since I got into it 15 years ago, has acquired a dignity that is beyond reproach. Hollywood is, today, a quiet town compared to other places I have been and can, moreover, be pretty proud of itself, having pushed more charities, given more time to selling war bonds and more talent to entertaining servicemen than any other town in any other part of the country.”

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Sports profile

Sport: Fighting
Team: _Retired Boxing
Position: Boxer
Nationality: United States

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Official website

John Wayne - The Duke's Official Website

John Wayne Enterprises’ mission is to preserve and protect the name, image and likeness of John Wayne by associating the John Wayne brand with quality and timeless products and experiences that embody the spirit of John Wayne and give back to the community.

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.johnwayne.com
Image: John Wayne - still portrait.jpg
Height: 193

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Commons category: John Wayne
date of birth: 1907-05-26
date of death: 1979-06-11
Commons gallery: John Wayne
birth name: Marion Robert Morrison
pseudonym: John Wayne
name in native language: John Wayne
start of work period: 1926-00-00
end of work period: 1979-00-00
social media followers: 37043
nickname: Duke

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Article

Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne, was an American actor. Nicknamed "Duke", he became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies. His career flourished from the silent film era of the 1920s through the American New Wave, as he appeared in a total of 179 film and television productions. He was among the top box-office draws for three decades and appeared with many other important Hollywood stars of his era. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Wayne as one of the greatest male stars of classic American cinema.

Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, but grew up in Southern California. After losing his football scholarship to the University of Southern California due to a bodysurfing accident, he began working for the Fox Film Corporation. He appeared mostly in small parts, but gained a leading role in Raoul Walsh's Western The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen film epic that was a box-office failure. He played leading roles in numerous B movies during the 1930s, most of them also Westerns, without becoming a major name. John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) made Wayne a mainstream star, and he starred in 142 motion pictures altogether. According to biographer Ronald Davis, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage."