John Wayne

Also known as The Duke, Duke

Marion Robert Morrison, conocido profesionalmente como John Wayne, fue un actor estadounidense. Apodado "Duke", se convirtió en un ícono popular a través de sus roles protagónicos en películas que se produjeron durante la Época de Oro de Hollywood, especialmente en películas del Oeste y de guerra. Su carrera floreció desde la era del cine mudo de la década de 1920 hasta la Nueva Ola Americana en la década de 1970, ya que apareció en un total de 179 producciones cinematográficas y televisivas. Estuvo entre los mayores atractivos de taquilla durante tres décadas, y apareció junto a muchas otras estrellas importantes de Hollywood de su época. En 1999, el American Film Institute seleccionó a Wayne como una de las mayores estrellas masculinas del cine clásico estadounidense.

Occupation: film actor, actor, film director, film producer
Citizenship: United States
Born: May 26, 1907
Died: June 11, 1979
Website: http://www.johnwayne.com
Net worth: $6.8 Million (reported)

Resumen

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Also known as The Duke, Duke

Notable quotes

“We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!”
— 1954, in an interview with Hedda Hopper regarding his marriage to Esperanza "Chata" Baur.
“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.”
— Speaking in 1958 with ; as quoted in The Hollywood Cage (1969) by Hamblett, reproduced in "The Hollywood Cage': Wayne Has Method, Goldwyn Has Hope, Welles Has Wasteland" by Hamblett, The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 4, 1969), p. 109
“I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.”
— Playboy interview, May 1971
“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.”
— Playboy interview, May 1971