DUKE’S SON REMEMBERS

orn on Feb. 22, 1962, John Ethan Morrison (known professionally as Ethan Wayne) is the youngest son of the late Western film icon John Wayne (birth name Marion Robert Morrison and known to friends as “Duke”) and wife Pilar Pallete. Memorably, as a boy Ethan appeared on-screen with his father and older brother Patrick in (1971). In the wake of his dad’s death from stomach cancer at age 72 on June 11, 1979, young Wayne turned a stint doing stunt work, then returned to acting on both the big and small screen, including a co-starring role in the police drama . When older brother Michael Wayne died in 2003, Ethan took the reins as president of the family-run John Wayne Enterprises [] and director of the John Wayne Cancer Foundation []. recently caught up with Ethan to discuss the various Wayne family endeavors, including the new museum, John Wayne: An American Experience (see P. 76), in Fort Worth, Texas.