John Wayne filmography Wayne starred in his final film, "The Shootist" (1976), ending his acting career for fifty years, 169 feature length films, and various other television appearances or voice-overs. In 1993, Wayne appeared posthumously as George Abitbol, the central character in the French TV film "La Classe américaine". The film, the story of which revolves around an investigation of Abitbol's death, consists entirely of cut-and-pasted extracts from other films, dubbed with new lines in French and transformed into a new story. Raymond Loyer, who had dubbed Wayne into French in his previous films, returned to do so one last time. John Wayne
Wayne S. Vucinich Wayne S. Vucinich Wayne S. Vucinich (June 23, 1913 – April 21, 2005) was an American professor and historian, as well as a founding father of the Russian, Slavic, East European and Byzantine scholarship at Stanford University following World War II. He was also director of the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies and spent his academic career at Stanford University. Vucinich was born in the United States to a family of Serb immigrants who had come from Bosnia in the early twentieth century. He was born in Butte, Montana in 1913, and lived there until he was orphaned