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John Wayne
1907-1979
Film
Born Marion Michael Morrison the "Duke"
played characters who  typically
exuded the American "can do" spirit in over 200
films. He attended USC on a football scholarship and in the
summer would work on the FOX lot as a laborer. He was be-friended
by John Ford, who gave him roles in some of his films in the
late 1920s. In the 1930s he worked in B-westerns and serials.
In 1939 he played Ringo Kid in Stagecoach and his
career took off from that brilliant performance. Other notable
films that he starred in were Sands of Iwo Jima (1949),
The Shootist (1976), and of course his greatest role,
at least to all Irish Americans, was of Sean
Thornton in The Quiet Man. His mother was Irish and
Wayne stated about her "She was a tiny vivacious red-headed
bundle of energy." Sounds very similar to Maureen O'Hara's
role as Mary Kate Danaher in this great movie classic.
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