Patrick Wayne is the second son of movie star John Wayne and his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz.
16 Facts About Patrick Wayne
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Patrick Wayne made over 40 films, including eleven with his father.
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Later in his career, Wayne became a television host with the 1980 variety program The Monte Carlo Show and the 1990 revival of Tic-Tac-Dough.
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Patrick Wayne made his film debut at age 11 in his father's film Rio Grande.
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Patrick Wayne followed that with films directed by John Ford: The Quiet Man, The Sun Shines Bright, The Long Gray Line, Mister Roberts and The Searchers.
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Patrick Wayne played similar roles in both shows as baseball players.
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Patrick Wayne appeared in Ford's sprawling epic Cheyenne Autumn, as James Stewart's son in Shenandoah, in An Eye for an Eye, The Deserter, and in a lead role in The Bears and I for Walt Disney.
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Patrick Wayne served a tour of duty with the United States Coast Guard from 1961 to 1965.
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Patrick Wayne's career peaked in the late 1970s in the popular matinee fantasy Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, then in The People That Time Forgot.
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Patrick Wayne co-starred as a romantic love interest to Shirley Jones in the brief TV series Shirley.
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Patrick Wayne was the host of The Monte Carlo Show in 1980 and occasionally worked on game shows and syndicated variety series.
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Patrick Wayne appeared in the movie Young Guns as Pat Garrett.
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Patrick Wayne did a comic turn in the Western spoof Rustler's Rhapsody.
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Patrick Wayne served as the host of the 1990 revival of the game show Tic-Tac-Dough.
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In 2003, Patrick Wayne became chairman of the John Patrick Wayne Cancer Institute.
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In December 2015, Patrick Wayne 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.