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Michael Wayne
American actor and film producer (1934–2003) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michael Anthony Morrison (November 23, 1934 – April 2, 2003), known professionally as Michael Wayne, was an American actor and film producer. He was best known as the eldest son of the actor John Wayne.
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Early life
Michael Anthony Morrison was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 23, 1934,[1] as the eldest child to John Wayne, an actor, and his first wife, Josephine Alicia (née Saenz), the daughter of Panama's Consul General to the United States.[2] He had three younger siblings: Mary Antonia "Toni" Wayne LaCava,[3] Patrick Wayne,[4] and Melinda Ann Wayne Munoz,[5][6] and three half-siblings: Aissa Maria Wayne,[7][8] John Ethan Wayne,[9] and Marisa Carmela Wayne,[10] from his father's marriage to his stepmother, Pilar Pallete, a Peruvian former actress.[11][12][13]
Wayne graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1956, with a business degree. He later served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.[14]
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Career
Wayne began his film career as a production assistant on the set of the John Ford romantic comedy drama film The Quiet Man in 1951. He adopted his father's stage surname, Wayne. He joined his father's film production company, Batjac Productions, for The Alamo (1960). He became line producer for McLintock! (1963) and producer on many other John Wayne vehicles, including Big Jake (1971) and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973).[15]
Wayne served on the board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.[16] He was The John Wayne Foundation's president and chairman of the board. He was also the founder and chairman of the board of the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John's Health Center.[17]
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Personal life
Wayne married Gretchen Ann Deibel[18][19] in Los Angeles, California, on August 30, 1958.[20] They had five children together: Alicia Maria Wayne (born 1959),[21] Teresa Ann Wayne (born 1960),[22] Maria Utilla Wayne (born 1962),[23] Josephine Michele Wayne (born 1965),[24] and Christopher Michael Wayne (born 1967).[25] His sister-in-law, Kathryn Deibel, married Frankie Avalon on January 19, 1963, and they had eight children together.[26] He was the uncle of Jennifer Wayne from the country music group Runaway June.[27]
Wayne was 44 years old[28] when his father died from stomach cancer on June 11, 1979.[29][30] His father left an estate worth US$6.85M, of which he received US$220,000.[31]
Wayne died from heart failure with complications resulting from lupus[32] erythematosus in Burbank, California, on April 2, 2003. He was 68.[33][34] He was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.[35][36]
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