Wayne Morris
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Wayne Morris (February 17, 1914 – September 14, 1959) was an American film and television actor as well as a decorated World War II combat ace.
He appeared in many films, including Paths of Glory (1957), The Bushwackers (1952), and Kid Galahad (1937).
Personal life
Morris was first married to Leonora (Bubbles) Schinasi, a tobacco heiress; the couple later divorced. Morris married Patricia Ann O'Rourke, 19, at the Long Beach Naval Air Base on February 25, 1942, eighteen months later. Peggy Stewart, the sister of B-movie actress Peggy Stewart, was O'Rourke.
He had two daughters and a son.
Early life and career
Morris was born in Los Angeles. (Another source says that he was born in Pasadena, California.) He attended Los Angeles City College and was a fullback on that school's varsity football team. He gained acting experience through his work at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Morris's film debut came in China Clipper (1936).
Morris played the title character of Kid Galahad (1937), a story of a young prizefighter that featured some of Hollywood's biggest stars, Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart. His career flourished in films like Brother Rat, which starred Ronald Reagan, and in Bogart's only horror film, The Return of Doctor X (1939).
Later career
After the war, Morris returned to films, but his nearly four-year absence had cost him his burgeoning stardom. He continued to act in movies, but the pictures, for the most part, sank in quality. Losing his boyish looks but not demeanor, Morris spent most of the fifties in low-budget westerns, but he also appeared as the cowardly Lieutenant Roget, one of the main characters, in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957).
In 1957, Morris made his Broadway debut as a washed-up boxing champ in William Saroyan's The Cave Dwellers.
On television, Morris starred in a 1956 episode of Science Fiction Theater, "Beam of Fire." In 1958, Morris appeared in Gunsmoke as "Nat," a groom almost shot to death. Wayne Morris played "Captain Hathaway" in a 1959 airing of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, in the episode "The Sea Captain".