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Patrick Wayne
Wayne in 1981
Born	Patrick John Morrison (1939-07-15) July 15, 1939 (age 85) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Pat Wayne
Alma mater	Loyola Marymount University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1950–present
Organization	John Wayne Cancer Institute
Spouses	Peggy Hunt ​ ​(m. 1965; div. 1978)​ Misha Anderson ​(m. 1999)​
Children	3
Parents	John Wayne (father) Josephine Wayne (née Saenz) (mother)
Relatives	Michael Wayne (brother) Pilar Pallete (stepmother) Ethan Wayne (half-brother) Jennifer Wayne (niece)
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Patrick John Morrison (born July 15, 1939), known professionally as Patrick Wayne, is an American actor. He is best known as the second son of the actor John Wayne.

Early life

Patrick John Morrison was born in Los Angeles, California on July 15 1939, as the second child to John Wayne (1907–1979), an actor, and his first wife, Josephine Alicia (née Saenz; 1908–2003), the daughter of Panama's Consul General to the United States. He had three siblings; Michael Wayne (1934–2003), Mary Antonia "Toni" Wayne LaCava (1936–2000), and Melinda Ann Wayne Munoz (1940–2022), and three half-siblings; Aissa Maria Wayne (born 1956), John Ethan Wayne (born 1962), and Marisa Carmela Wayne (born 1966), from his father's marriage to his stepmother, Pilar Pallete (born 1928), a Peruvian former actress. His godfather was John Ford, a film director.

Wayne attended Loyola Marymount University, where he was a member of the Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity. He graduated in 1961. From 1961 to 1965, he served a tour of duty with the United States Coast Guard.

Career

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 film with his father, John Wayne; The Quiet Man (1952), The High and the Mighty (1954) - as a props assistant, The Conqueror (1956), The Searchers (1956), The Alamo (1960), The Comancheros (1961), Donovan's Reef (1963), McLintock! (1963), The Green Berets (1968), and Big Jake (1971). He appeared in several films directed by John Ford: The Sun Shines Bright (1952), The Long Gray Line (1955), Mister Roberts (1955), and The Searchers (1956). He struck out on his own to start in his own film The Young Land (1959). He appeared in Ford's sprawling epic Cheyenne Autumn (1964), as James Stewart's son in Shenandoah (1965), in An Eye for an Eye (1966), The Deserter (1971), and in a lead role in The Bears and I (1974) for Walt Disney. His television work included the baseball teleplay Rookie of the Year (1955), directed by Ford and starring his father, and Flashing Spikes (1962), a baseball television anthology installment directed by Ford and starring James Stewart, with his father in an extended cameo role. He played similar roles in both shows as baseball players. He earned recognition in the sci-fi genre following his work on his father's film Big Jake.

Wayne peaked as an actor in the late 1970s in the popular matinee fantasy Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), then in The People That Time Forgot (1977). He screen-tested for the title role of Superman. He co-starred as a romantic love interest to Shirley Jones in the brief TV series Shirley (1979). He was the host of The Monte Carlo Show in 1980 and occasionally worked on games shows and syndicated variety series.

Wayne had many appearances on popular television series of the 1970s and 1980s, including Charlie's Angels (1976), Fantasy Island (1978), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Sledge Hammer! (1986), and The Love Boat. He appeared in the movie Young Guns (1988) as Pat Garrett. He also did a comic turn in the Western spook Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985).

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

Wayne became chairman of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in 2003. In December 2015, he travelled to Spain to receive the prize Almeria Tierra de Cine in Almeria, Andalucia, for his long career in the cinema, and in his acceptance speech, he noted that his maternal grandparents were born in Madrid and that he is half Spanish.

Wayne appeared on The John Wayne Gritcast podcast series, where he was interviewed by his younger half-brother, Ethan Wayne. The first episode, "Episode 1 – Patrick Wayne – Part 1", was released on September 29, 2021. The second epiapde, "Episode 2 – Patrick Wayne – Part 2", was released on October 7, 2021. He appeared on the eighth episode, "Episode 8 – McCandles Family Reunion", was released on November 18, 2021. He appeared on the thirteenth episode, "Episode 13 – Family Christmas Episode!", was released on December 23, 2021.

Personal life

Wayne married his first wife, Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hunt (1942–2021), on December 11, 1965. The couple divorced on September 1, 1978, after 12 years of marriage.

Wayne was 39-years-old when his father died from stomach cancer on June 11, 1979. His father left an estate worth US$6.85M, of which he received US$195,000.

Wayne married his second wife, Misha Anderson, on May 8, 1999.

Wayne has three children. He is the uncle of Jennifer Wayne from the country music group Runaway June.

Filmography

As an actor

As himself

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References

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• 1939 births
• Living people
• American male film actors
• American game show hosts
• Male actors from Los Angeles
• Male Western (genre) film actors
• American people of Spanish descent
• New Star of the Year (Actor) Golden Globe winners