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John Wayne: Biography

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Birth Name: Marion Robert Morrison
Birth Place: Winterset, IA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 05/26/1907, Gemini
Date of Death: 06/11/1979
Profession: Actor; producer; director

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Pirates, '70s Hottie P.J. Soles, Bruce Campbell and More Questions! | Ask FlickChick | 5/31/2007
Questions about motion capture animation -- is it cheating? -- John Wayne, P.J. Soles and more. Send your movie questions to FlickChick.See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks in Movie Talk!Question: I've been reading a lot about the behind-the-scenes technology used to created the tentacle-faced Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and keep seeing the term "motion capture." But none of the articles have explained how it's different from old-fashioned rotoscoping. Can you enlighten me, oh FlickChick? -- BradFlickChick: The difference is computers. Rotoscoping is a process invented by animation pioneer Max Fleischer -- creator of Betty Boop -- in 1914. It allowed artists to hand-draw over motion picture footage of real subjects frame-by-frame so that the instantly recognizable weight and flow of real human motion was maintained while the specifics of the image could be changed to the animator's... read more
Short Cuts: Sound of Music, John Wayne and More | Today's News: Our Take | 3/8/2007
ABC Family has ponied up $3 million to air The Sound of Music up to seven times a year for the next three years, starting in April. As part of the deal, ABC proper gets one holiday-season airing of its own.... To commemorate (what would have been) John Wayne's 100th birthday, the Warner Bros. and Paramount studios on May 22 will release 48 of the Duke's films. The six-disc collection includes spiffed-up versions of Rio Bravo, The Cowboys and True Grit (for which he won an Oscar), as well as six titles never issued on DVD.... John Inman, best known for his role as Mr. Humphries on the long-running BBC comedy Are You Being Served?, died Thursday following a long illness. He was 71. read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 11/7/2006
Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) pays tribute to a cinema giant in Turner Classic Movies' read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 2/8/2006
'Reckoning,' the 100th episode of WB's read more
Ask Ausiello | 1/18/2006
How many films did John Wayne and Ward Bond make together? I'm sorry, you stumbled int read more

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John Wayne: Credits

Title	Year	Type
The Shootist (Actor - John Bernard Books)	1976	Movie
Brannigan (Actor - Jim Brannigan)	1975	Movie
Rooster Cogburn (Actor - Rooster Cogburn)	1975	Movie
Mc Q (Actor - Detective Lt. Lon McQ)	1974	Movie
Cahill, US Marshal (Actor - J.D. Cahill)	1973	Movie

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