John Wayne Net Worth At Death
Marion Robert Morrison was an American actor who is popularly known as John Wayne and was also called The Duke. He became a famous icon through his leading performances in Hollywood’s Golden Age, particularly in Western and war movies. He appeared in 179 film and television productions over the course of his successful career, which…
Marion Robert Morrison was an American actor who is popularly known as John Wayne and was also called The Duke. He became a famous icon through his leading performances in Hollywood’s Golden Age, particularly in Western and war movies. He appeared in 179 film and television productions over the course of his successful career, which spanned the American New Wave to the 1920s era. He also appeared with many significant Hollywood figures of his age, and was one of the top box office draws for three decades. Wayne was named one of the finest male stars of vintage American film by the American Film Institute in 1999.
John Wayne, started working for the Fox Film Corporation after he had a bodysurfing accident, which cost him loosing his football scholarship, at the University of Southern California. He had supporting roles, but his big break role, came in Raoul Walsh’s Western, known as The Big Trail in 1930, which was a pioneering widescreen epic film at the box office. Without becoming well-known, he starred in a number of B pictures in the 1930s, the most of which were Westerns.
John Wayne’s Net Worth At Death
John Wayne had a Net Worth of $7 million at the time of his death in 1979.
