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11 de jun. de 2021 · Historias. Polémico, duro y con una vida privada tumultuosa: John Wayne, el último gran héroe americano. Una infancia pobre, un accidente de surf que le hizo perder una beca y cambió su...
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19 de may. de 2023 · El Golden Turkey para John Wayne fue un irónico premio póstumo: había muerto el 11 de junio de 1979 en el UCLA Medical Center de Los Ángeles. De cáncer de estómago.
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On this day in 1979, John Wayne, an iconic American film actor famous for starring in countless westerns, dies at age 72 after battling cancer for more than a decade.
The actor was born Marion Morrison on May 26, 1907, in Winterset, Iowa, and moved as a child to Glendale, California. A football star at Glendale High School, he attended the University of Southern California on a scholarship but dropped out after two years. After finding work as a movie studio laborer, Wayne befriended director John Ford, then a r...
Waynes first starring role came in 1930 with The Big Trail, a film directed by his college buddy Raoul Walsh. It was during this time that Marion Morrison became John Wayne, when director Walsh didnt think Marion was a good name for an actor playing a tough western hero. Despite the lead actors new name, however, the movie flopped. Throughout the 1...
In 1939, Wayne finally had his breakthrough when his old friend John Ford cast him as Ringo Kid in the Oscar-winning Stagecoach. Wayne went on to play larger-than-life heroes in dozens of movies and came to symbolize a type of rugged, strong, straight-shooting American man. John Ford directed Wayne in some of his best-known films, including Fort Ap...
During four decades of acting, Wayne, with his trademark drawl and good looks, appeared in over 250 films. He was married three times and had seven children.
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Hace 3 días · 70 Years After John Wayne’s Film ‘The Conqueror,’ a New Documentary Alleges Cancer-Causing Radiation Exposure Near The Utah Film Site. The historical drama, which starred the late screen icon John Wayne – and was a bit of a flop at the time compared to his usual box office gold – was filmed just outside of St. George, which was 137 miles from a nuclear testing site where the federal ...
John Wayne en The Searchers (1956). John Wayne sufrió cáncer, enfermedad que se atribuyó a la radiación a la que se había expuesto en 1956 durante el rodaje de la película histórica El conquistador de Mongolia.
12 de jun. de 1979 · John Wayne, who fought cancer off and on for 15 years, died late yesterday afternoon at UCLA Medical Center. Doctors were unable to make him strong enough to start the chemotherapy and...
30 de jun. de 2015 · En junio de 1979, víctima de un cáncer de estómago que se extendió al hígado y el páncreas, John Wayne. En 1991, John Hoyt, por un carcinoma de pulmón. Según «People», 150 muertos
