Ī local fireman at the station on his route to school in Glendale started calling him 'Little Duke' because he never went anywhere without his huge Airedale Terrier, Duke. He was also the president of the Latin Society and contributed to the school's newspaper sports column. Wayne was part of his high school's football team and its debating team.

He attended Glendale Union High School, where he performed well in both sports and academics. Wayne's family moved to Palmdale, California, and then in 1916 to Glendale at 404 Isabel Street, where his father worked as a pharmacist. The Morrisons were originally from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. 1782) left County Antrim, Ireland, with his mother, arriving in New York in 1799 and eventually settling in Adams County, Ohio. His great-great-grandfather Robert Morrison (b. Wayne had Scottish, Scotch-Irish, English, and Irish ancestry. Wayne's mother, the former Mary 'Molly' Alberta Brown (1885–1970), was from Lancaster County, Nebraska. Wayne's father, Clyde Leonard Morrison (1884–1937), was the son of American Civil War veteran Marion Mitchell Morrison (1845–1915). Wayne's legal name remained Marion Robert Morrison his entire life. Wayne claimed his middle name was soon changed from Robert to Michael when his parents decided to name their next son Robert, but extensive research has found no such legal change. The local paper, Winterset Madisonian, reported on page 4 of the edition of May 30, 1907, that Wayne weighed 13 lb (around 6 kg) at birth. Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907, at 224 South Second Street in Winterset, Iowa. The house in Winterset, Iowa, where Wayne was born in 1907 He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor of the United States. He made his last public appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979, and died of stomach cancer two months later. In his final screen performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in The Shootist (1976). He is also remembered for his roles in The Quiet Man (1952) with Maureen O'Hara, Rio Bravo (1959) with Dean Martin, and The Longest Day (1962). Wayne's other roles in Westerns include a cattleman driving his herd on the Chisholm Trail in Red River (1948), a Civil War veteran whose niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in The Searchers (1956), a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer ( James Stewart) for a woman's hand in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and a cantankerous one-eyed marshal in True Grit (1969), for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor. According to one biographer, 'John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage.' John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) made Wayne a mainstream star, and he starred in 142 motion pictures altogether. He played leading roles in numerous B movies during the 1930s, most of them also Westerns, without becoming a major name. He appeared mostly in small parts, but his first leading role came in Raoul Walsh's Western The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen film epic that was a box-office failure. He lost a football scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result of a bodysurfing accident, and began working for the Fox Film Corporation. Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, but grew up in Southern California. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Wayne as one of the greatest male stars of classic American cinema. He was among the top box-office draws for three decades, and he appeared with many other important Hollywood stars of his era. His career flourished from the silent era of the 1920s through the American New Wave, as he appeared in a total of 179 film and television productions.

Marion Robert Morrison (– June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed The Duke, was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films made during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.

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