| | '''John Wayne''' (stage name of '''Marion Michael Morrison'''; byname: "Duke"), 1907–1979,<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/ John Wayne], Internet Movie Database</ref> [[United States]] [[film]] [[actor]], was an icon of [[American]] heroism and the personification of idealized American values through his image of the strong, ruggedly-individualistic cowboy. His [[New York Times]] obituary called him "the greatest figure of one of America's greatest native art forms, the western.".<ref name=obit>Shephard, Richard F. (1979), "'Duke,' an American Hero," ''The New York Times,'' June 12, 1979, p. A10</ref> Vincent Canby called him "as emblematic of the United States of America as the Indian head penny, and perhaps even more enduring."<ref>Canby, Vincent (1979), "Myth as a Man Realized Our Dreams," ''The New York Times,'' June 13, 1979, p. B10</ref> | | '''John Wayne''' (stage name of '''Marion Michael Morrison'''; byname: "Duke"), 1907–1979,<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/ John Wayne], Internet Movie Database</ref> [[United States]] [[film]] [[actor]], was an icon of [[American]] heroism and the personification of idealized American values through his image of the strong, ruggedly-individualistic cowboy. His [[New York Times]] obituary called him "the greatest figure of one of America's greatest native art forms, the western.".<ref name=obit>Shephard, Richard F. (1979), "'Duke,' an American Hero," ''The New York Times,'' June 12, 1979, p. A10</ref> Vincent Canby called him "as emblematic of the United States of America as the Indian head penny, and perhaps even more enduring."<ref>Canby, Vincent (1979), "Myth as a Man Realized Our Dreams," ''The New York Times,'' June 13, 1979, p. B10</ref> |