1. Patrick Wayne is best known as the second son of the actor John Wayne.
18 Facts About Patrick Wayne
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Patrick Wayne made his debut at the age of 11, as an uncredited extra in the romantic Western film Rio Grande.
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Patrick Wayne appeared in several films directed by John Ford: The Sun Shines Bright, The Long Gray Line, Mister Roberts, and The Searchers.
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Patrick Wayne struck out on his own to start in his own film The Young Land.
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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 played similar roles in both shows as baseball players.
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Patrick Wayne earned recognition in the sci-fi genre following his work on his father's film Big Jake.
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Patrick Wayne peaked as an actor 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 games 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 Rustlers' 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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Patrick Wayne became chairman of the John Patrick Wayne Cancer Institute in 2003.
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Patrick Wayne married his first wife, Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hunt, on December 11,1965.
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Patrick Wayne was 39-years-old when his father died from stomach cancer on June 11,1979.
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Patrick Wayne's father left an estate worth US$6.85M, of which he received US$195,000.
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Patrick Wayne married his second wife, Misha Anderson, on May 8,1999.