Wayne's World

1. He didn't serve in World War II because he felt it might damage his acting career.

2. When guest of honour at the launch of a navy ship in 1975, he got stuck in the slipway, so he gave it a shove and off it went.

3. Richard Widmark described his hands as 'big as hams'.

4. He claimed to have 'beaten the Big C' in 1964, but actually surgeouns did - by removing half his lung.

5. He destroyed the film of a photographer who snapped him taking oxygen wile filming The Sons Of Katie Elder in 1965.

6. He hated horses

7. His football coach at the University of Southern California was called Howard Jones.

8. His real name was Marion

9. Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Represtitives in England, used to try to walk and talk like John Wayne as a small boy.

10. There is an airport named after him in Orange County.

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