John Wayne one of the most American star they call him the duke born Marion Michael Morrison in 1907 I don't know what town he was from he started acting since the late 1920's and early 1930 until the 60's and 70's he won the Oscar award for the True Grit or Roostep and Cockburn or the Shootist his friends were Ward Bond, Kirk Douglas, Paul Fix, Red Buttons, Dean Martin, Bruce Cabot, Henry Fonda, John Agar, Walter Brennan, Forrest Tucker, Walter Pigeon, Angie Dickinson, Moureen O'Hara, Clare Treavor, Lee Marvin, George Kennedy, James Stewart, Lauren Bacall and his son Patrick Wayne Wayne became with lung cancer got it from the sand from one of his movies then he died in June 11Th. 1979