Patrick Wayne

Patrick Wayne
Born	Patrick John Morrison July 15, 1939 (1939-07-15) (age 70) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1950–present
Spouse(s)	Peggy Hunt (1965–present)

Patrick John Wayne (born July 15, 1939, in Los Angeles, California), is an American actor and second son of movie star John Wayne and his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz. He made over 40 films in his career, including nine with his father. In addition, Patrick Wayne held a role as the host of a 1990 revival of the television game show Tic-Tac-Dough and hosted the short-lived "Monte Carlo Show" in 1980.

Early life and career

One of four children born to John Wayne's first wife, Patrick took his father's stage surname Wayne. He made a total of nine movies with his father John Wayne: Rio Grande (1950); The Quiet Man (1952); The Searchers (1956); The Alamo (1960); The Comancheros (1961); Donovan's Reef (1963); McLintock! (1963); The Green Berets (1968); Big Jake (1971).

Patrick made his film debut at age 11 in his father's Rio Grande (1950). He followed that with films directed by family friend and iconic director John Ford: The Quiet Man (1952), The Sun Shines Bright (1953), The Long Gray Line (1955), Mister Roberts (1955), and The Searchers (1956). Following high school, Patrick attended Loyola Marymount University, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Gamma Fraternity, and graduated in 1961. During this time, he went out on his own to star in his own film The Young Land (1959). Realizing he was not quite ready to play the lead character he supported his father in The Alamo (1960), Donovan's Reef (1963), McLintock! (also 1963), and The Green Berets (1968). A few exceptions included a role in Ford's sprawling epic Cheyenne Autumn (1964), a role as James Stewart's son in Shenandoah (1965) and in An Eye for an Eye (1966).

From 1957-1958, Wayne, at the age of eighteen, appeared as Walter on the CBS sitcom, Mr. Adams and Eve, starring Howard Duff and Ida Lupino as a fictitious acting couple living in Beverly Hills.

In 1966, at the age of twenty-seven, Wayne co-starred with Ron Hayes and Chill Wills in the 17-episode ABC comedy western series The Rounders, based on the 1965 Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda film of the same name The Rounders^[1]

Later works

Following work on his father's Big Jake, Patrick earned recognition in the sci-fi genre. His career peaked in the late 1970s in the popular matinée fantasy Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), then The People That Time Forgot (1977). He co-starred as a romantic love interest to Shirley Jones in another brief TV series, Shirley (1979), and occasionally worked on game shows and syndicated variety series.

He had many appearances on popular TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, including Fantasy Island (1978), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Charlie's Angels (1976), and The Love Boat.^[1] Wayne made a cameo appearance in the movie Young Guns as Pat Garrett. He also did a comic turn in the Western spoof Rustler's Rhapsody (1985) starring Tom Berenger.

Wayne served as the host of the 1990 revival of the game show Tic-Tac-Dough.

In 2003, Patrick became chairman of the John Wayne Cancer Institute.^[1]

Siblings

Mother - Josephine Alicia Saenz

• Michael Wayne (film producer) - Born November 23, 1934 / Died April 2, 2003
• Mary Antonia "Toni" Wayne LaCava - Born February 25, 1936 / Died December 6, 2000
• Patrick Wayne
• Melinda Wayne Munoz - Born December 3, 1940

Mother - Pilar Pallete

• Aissa Wayne - (Actress, now Attorney) Born March 31, 1956
• John Ethan Wayne (Actor) - Born February 22, 1962
• Marisa Wayne (Actress) - Born February 22, 1966

References

External links

• Patrick Wayne at the Internet Movie Database