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Patrick John Morrison (born July 15, 1939), better known as Patrick Wayne, is an American actor. He is the second son of actor John Wayne.
Patrick John Morrison was born on July 15, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, the second child of John Wayne, an actor, and his first wife, Josephine Alicia (née Saenz), the daughter of Panama’s Consul General to the United States. He has three siblings: Michael Wayne, Mary Antonia “Toni” Wayne LaCava, and Melinda Ann Wayne Munoz, and three half-siblings; Aissa Maria Wayne, John Ethan Wayne, and Marisa Carmela Wayne, from his father’s marriage to his stepmother, Pilar Pallete, a Peruvian former actress. His godfather was John Ford, a film director.
Wayne attended Loyola University of Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity, and graduated in 1961. From 1961 to 1965, he served a tour of duty with the U.S. Coast Guard.
Wayne made his debut at the age of 11, as an uncredited extra in the romantic Western film Rio Grande (1950). He went on to appear in 10 more films with his father, John Wayne: The Quiet Man (1952), The High and the Mighty (1954) – as a props assistant, The Conqueror (1956),…
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