John Wayne Bravo" (1959) with Dean Martin, and "The Longest Day" (1962). In his final screen performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in "The Shootist" (1976). He appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era, and his last public appearance was at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979. Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907 at 224 South Second Street in Winterset, Iowa. The local paper, "Winterset Madisonian", reported on page 4 of the edition of May 30, 1907 that Wayne weighed 13 lbs. (around 6 kg.) at birth. His middle name was
Midway (1976 film) (1960) (which also stars Mifune). Several action scenes, including the one where an Mitsubishi A6M Zero slams into 's bridge, were taken from "Away All Boats" (1956); scenes of Doolittle's Tokyo raid at the beginning of the film are from "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944). In addition, most dogfight sequences come from wartime gun camera footage or from the film "Battle of Britain" (1969). Cast member Henry Fonda (Admiral Nimitz) had been one of the narrators of the 1942 John Ford documentary "The Battle of Midway", some footage from which was used in the 1976 film. The only actress with