Patrick Wayne


Actor

About

Also Known As
Patrick John Morrison, Pat Wayne
Birth Place
Los Angeles, California, USA
Born
July 15, 1939

Biography

The son of legendary screen cowboy John Wayne, Patrick Wayne followed in his father's footsteps and made his screen debut in 1950 with a small part in his father's Western romance "Rio Grande." He went on to appear in 10 more films with his father, which began with small roles like the credit "Boy on Wagon" in the Ireland-set "The Quiet Man." Later, he earned eye-catching supporting role...

Photos & Videos

The Long Gray Line - Behind-the-Scenes Photos
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger - Lobby Card Set

Biography

The son of legendary screen cowboy John Wayne, Patrick Wayne followed in his father's footsteps and made his screen debut in 1950 with a small part in his father's Western romance "Rio Grande." He went on to appear in 10 more films with his father, which began with small roles like the credit "Boy on Wagon" in the Ireland-set "The Quiet Man." Later, he earned eye-catching supporting roles in "Big Jake," a rescue mission adventure in which he played the onscreen son of his real-life dad. This was the last feature in which the two Waynes would co-star; as the elder Wayne continued in Westerns, the younger took on new terrain in genre films like the science fiction horror flick "Beyond Atlantis." He also had lead roles in such popular matinee fare as the sequel to the surprise sci-fi sleeper hit "The Land That Time Forgot," "The People That Time Forgot," and in "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger," a fantasy adventure in which the legendary pirate tries to undo a prince's curse. These 1970s movies proved to be the peak of Patrick Wayne's career. While he went on to find work in television through the next 20 years, he never managed to achieve the star status of his father. After appearing in more than 40 films, Patrick walked away from acting and since 2003 has served as chairman of the John Wayne Cancer Institute, a research facility looking for a cure in honor of his father.

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Long Gray Line - Behind-the-Scenes Photos
The Long Gray Line - Behind-the-Scenes Photos
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger - Lobby Card Set
Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Columbia's Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), featuring special effects by Ray Harryhausen. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Movie Clip

Bears And I, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Sweet Surrender Patrick Wayne, second son of John and his first wife Josephine Saenz, in one of his few starring roles, strides through the Cascades in British Columbia, directed by Bernard McEveety, with a licensed John Denver song that reached #13 that year, amid his streak of #1 hits, opening Walt Disney’s The Bears And I, 1974.
Bears And I, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) This Was His Home Country Patrick Wayne’s opening narration as U.S. Army veteran Bob Leslie (a real person, the original author), hiking through the Cascades in British Columbia, and meeting friends and family of his late comrade, including Valentin de Vargas, Michael Ansara and Chief Dan George as Chief Peter, in Walt Disney’s The Bears And I, 1974.
Bears And I, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) A Cardinal Rule For Bear Country Now on his own in the Cascades, inspecting his rented cabin, Vietnam veteran Bob (Patrick Wayne, John’s son) narrates his first encounter with the title characters, in the Walt Disney live action feature The Bears And I, 1974.
Eye For An Eye, An (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Cut Out That Damn Crying! First scene remarkable for its cruelty, Slim Pickens is Ike Slant, and he darn sure shoots a baby and burns a house around it, escaping with his cohorts before Robert Lansing (who shares top billing with Pickens and Gloria Talbott), as Talion, arrives too late, in the low cost Western An Eye For An Eye, 1966.
Eye For An Eye, An (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Can You Shoot That Thing Straight? Talion (mostly TV star Robert Lansing) has just begun riding after the gang who killed his family, especially a guy named Slant, when he comes upon Patrick Wayne, in one of his first movies without his father John, as gunslinger Benny, with whom he may have a shared interest, in An Eye For An Eye, 1966.
Eye For An Eye, An (1966) -- (Movie Clip) It's Been A Long Ride For-now allied seeking respectively revenge and bounty, Talion (Robert Lansing) and Benny (Patrick Wayne) have waited for the arrival of gang-leader Slant (Slim Pickens), who can’t resist more cruel taunting, leading to a shootout, in the Embassy Pictures Western An Eye For An Eye, 1966.
Shenandoah (1965) -- (Movie Clip) A Lot Of Noisy Silence Exposition, introducing the cast, during the Civil War, James Stewart as farmer and father Charlie Anderson addresses his sons, Philip Alford entering, then Glenn Corbett, James McMullan, Patrick Wayne (Duke’s son), Charles Robinson, and Tim McIntire, his daughter (Rosemary Forsyth) and daughter-in-law (Katharine Ross) silent, early in Shenandoah, 1965.
Shenandoah (1965) -- (Movie Clip) A Horrible Thing To Behold His youngest son taken prisoner as a (wrongly) suspected Confederate, neutral Virginia farmer Charlie (James Stewart) consults with his eldest son (Glenn Corbett) about rescue options, then visits with his daughter-in-law (Katharine Ross) and his first grandchild, Andrew V. McLaglen directing, in Shenandoah< 1965.
Shenandoah (1965) -- (Movie Clip) These Are My Sons A more explicit expression by James Stewart, as Virginia farmer Charlie Anderson, maintaining firm neutrality during the Civil War, just barely civil toward a Confederate officer (Tom Simcox) out to recruit his sons (Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, James McMullan) et al, in Shenandoah, 1965.
Cahill, United States Marshal (1973) -- (Movie Clip) It Was A Friendly Fight John Wayne (title character) returns to Valentine, Texas where Hank Worden is the station master, not knowing jailed Fraser (George Kennedy) and Strother (Morgan Paull) have involved his own son (Gary Grimes) in robbery and murder, Jackie Coogan the drunk, early in Cahill, United States Marshal, 1973.
Green Berets, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Communist Domination Col. York (John Wayne, the producer and co-director) observing reporter Beckworth (David Janssen) and soldiers Muldoon (Aldo Ray) and McGee (Raymond St. Jacques) discussing Vietnam in a state-side press event, early in The Green Berets, 1968.
Green Berets, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) What The Man Said On location at Fort Bragg, NC, Kirby (co-director and star John Wayne), with Muldoon (Aldo Ray), McGee (Raymond St. Jacques) and company, recruit crafty Peterson (Jim Hutton) for their squad headed to Vietnam, in an early scene from The Green Berets, 1968.

Family

John Wayne
Father
Actor.

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