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If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.
John Wayne
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John Wayne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 26
Died: 1979
Died: June 11
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American Football Player
Film Actor
Film Director
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Television Actor
Winterset
Iowa
Marion Mitchell Morrison
Marion Robert Morrison
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