Wayne Morris  (February 17, 1914 – September 14, 1959), born Bert DeWayne Morris in Los Angeles, was an American film and television actor, as well as a decorated World War II fighter ace. He appeared in many notable films, including Paths of Glory (1957), The Bushwackers (1952) and the title role of Kid Galahad in 1937. While filming Flight Angels (1940), Morris became interested in flying and became a pilot. With war in the wind, he joined the Naval Reserve and became a Navy flier in 1942, leaving his film career behind for the duration of the war. Flying the F6F Hellcat off the aircraft carrier USS Essex, Morris shot down seven Japanese planes and contributed to the sinking of five ships. He was awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses and two Air Medals. Morris was considered by the Navy as physically ‘too big’ to fly fighters. After being turned down several times as a fighter pilot, he went to his brother in law, Cdr. David McCampbell, imploring him for the chance to fly fighters. Cdr. McCampbell said “Give me a letter.” He flew with the VF-15, the famed “McCampbell Heroes.” He married Patricia O’Rourke, an Olympic swimmer, and sister to B-movie actress Peggy Stewart. Following 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. He made an unusual career move in 1957, making his Broadway debut as a washed-up boxing champ in William Saroyan’s The Cave Dwellers. He also appeared as a weakling in Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957). Morris suffered a massive heart attack while visiting aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard in San Francisco Bay and was pronounced dead after being transported to Oakland Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. He was 45. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Wayne Morris Biography / Wiki
| Name | Wayne Morris |
| Also Know | Bert DeWayne Morris |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1914-02-17 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 45 |
| Deathday | 1959-09-14 |
Wayne Morris Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The House Across the Street | Dave Joslin | 1949-09-10 | Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper’s … |
| The Green Buddha | Gary Holden | 1955-07-09 | Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tr… |
| Double Alibi | Stephen Wayne | 1940-03-01 | A man’s ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect…. |
| The Smiling Ghost | Alexander “Lucky” Downing | 1941-09-06 | Elinor Bentley Fairchild’s previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a mo… |
| Men Are Such Fools | Jimmy Hall | 1938-06-15 | Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find … |
| The Younger Brothers | Cole Younger | 1949-05-03 | Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-a… |
| Gambling on the High Seas | Jim Carter | 1940-06-22 | A reporter enlists the help of a gangster’s secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice…. |
| Valley of the Giants | Bill Cardigan | 1938-09-17 | A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business…. |
| Love, Honor and Behave | Ted Painter | 1938-03-12 | Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say “no” to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage…. |
| Ladies Must Live | Corey Lake | 1940-07-27 | A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she’s only interested in his money…. |
| The Big Punch | Chris Thorgenson | 1948-06-26 | Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight…. |
| The Gelignite Gang | Jimmy Baxter | 1956-06-20 | A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho’s underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing… |
| Sierra Passage | Johnny Yorke | 1950-12-31 | When young Johnny York witnesses the murder of his father, he joins a travelling variety troupe and trains up as a sharpshooter so he might one day ge… |
| Three Sons o’ Guns | Charley Patterson | 1941-08-02 | Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men…. |
| Fighting Lawman | Deputy Marshal Jim Burke | 1953-09-20 | A US Marshal hunts down three bank robbers that are living under new identities…. |
| The Tougher They Come | Bill Shaw | 1950-11-16 | Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long time, he has been courting… |
| The Crooked Sky | Mike Conlin | 1957-03-31 | An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang…. |
| The Desperado | Sam Garrett | 1954-06-20 | “Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don’t get in the habit of it.” Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett (Wayne Morris) offers that sage wisdo… |
| The Kid Comes Back | Rush Conway | 1938-02-12 | A ring veteran turns a Texas tenderfoot into a winning fighter…. |
| The Quarterback | Jimmy Jones and Billy Jones | 1940-10-15 | A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor. They both… |
| Desert Pursuit | Ford Smith | 1952-05-10 | In 1852, two friends left the Nevada prospector region to relocate from en route he meets the beautiful Marie who decides to make a trek with two frie… |
| The Marksman | Deputy Marshal Mike Martin | 1953-04-10 | Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers…. |
| Star of Texas | Texas Ranger Ed Ryan / Robert Larkin | 1953-01-11 | Ed Ryan is a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang headed by Luke Andrews. Posing as the wanted killer Robert Larkin, Ed is able to… |
| Arctic Flight | Mike Wien | 1952-10-19 | Mike Wein, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealth United States businessman…. |
| Texas Bad Man | Walt | 1953-12-20 | Wayne Morris’ B-western series was the last of its kind to be produced in Hollywood. Texas Bad Man casts Morris as a sheriff who happens to be the son… |
| Two Guns and a Badge | Deputy Jim Blake | 1954-09-11 | In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is… |
| Cross Channel | Tex Parker | 1955-09-29 | Charter-boat owner “Tex” Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency smugglers operating from the coasts of England and … |
| Yellow Fin | Mike Donovan | 1951-10-14 | WWII veteran Mike Donovan decides to sell his fishing boat after suffering a a series of accidents, the worst of which sends his father, Captain John … |
| Johnny One-Eye | Dane Cory | 1950-05-05 | Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon’s lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long si… |
| The Kid from Kokomo | Homer Baston | 1939-05-23 | Gruff boxing manager “Square Shooting Murph” Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career sea… |
| Riding Shotgun | Deputy Sheriff Tub Murphy | 1954-04-01 | When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang… |
| The Big Gusher | Kenny Blake | 1951-07-01 | Hoping to strike it rich, four people–two best buddies, a blonde waitress and a cheerful oldtimer–pool their resources so they can drill for oil. A … |
| Lord of the Jungle | Jeff Wood | 1955-06-12 | The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants…. |
| King of Hockey | Bill “Jumbo” Mullins | 1936-12-19 | Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game…. |
| Stage to Tucson | Barney Broderick | 1950-12-01 | A group of outlaws posing as Southern sympathizers and led secretly by freight-line owner Jim Maroon are raiding stagecoaches, and this is a threat to… |
| The Lonesome Trail | Dandy Dayton | 1955-07-01 | Back from the Indian wars, a cowboy wages a single-handed war against a land baron and his henchmen. After his shooting hand is disabled, he masters t… |
| The Bushwhackers | Marshal John Harding | 1952-01-08 | Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that ranch… |
| The Return of Doctor X | Walter Wichita Garrett | 1939-11-23 | Dr. Francis Flegg , a specialist in blood disease and research, has been assisted in recent months by a mysterious fellow named Marshall Quesne who is… |
| Plunder Road | Commando Munson | 1957-12-05 | A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam…. |
| Task Force | McKinney | 1949-08-30 | After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the … |
| Deep Valley | Jeff Barker | 1947-07-30 | A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness…. |
| The Time of Your Life | Tom | 1948-09-03 | Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Jo… |
| Flight Angels | Artie Dixon | 1940-05-18 | Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norv… |
| I Wanted Wings | Tom Cassidy | 1941-03-26 | Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and … |
| Submarine D-1 | “Sock” McGillis | 1937-11-27 | Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwat… |
| Bad Men of Missouri | Bob Younger | 1941-07-26 | The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buyin… |
| Land Beyond the Law | Dave Seymour | 1937-03-13 | A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered…. |
| Brother Rat and a Baby | Billy Randolph | 1940-01-13 | Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach…. |
| The Master Plan | Major Thomas Brent | 1955-09-08 | Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately… |
| An Angel from Texas | Mac McClure | 1940-04-27 | A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show…. |
| Blow-Ups of 1947 | Himself | 1947-01-01 | Warner Brothers bloopers of 1947… |
| Port of Hell | Stanley Povich | 1954-12-05 | The new warden of a large American harbor raises the hackles of sailors and fishermen by his strict enforcement of all the safety rules. He takes the … |
| Kid Galahad | Ward ‘Kid Galahad’ Guisenberry | 1937-05-29 | Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the ‘kid’ falls for his sister…. |
| Brother Rat | Billy Randolph | 1938-10-29 | Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father…. |
| The Voice of the Turtle | Comm. Ned Burling | 1947-12-25 | An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City…. |
| A Kiss in the Dark | Bruce Arnold | 1949-03-25 | Eric Phillips’s manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye…. |
| Buffalo Gun | Roche | 1961-07-01 | In this western, the Indians claim that their government rations are being stolen and they threaten to fight back. A pair of agents look into it and b… |
| Paths of Glory | Lt. Roget/Singing man | 1957-10-25 | A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916…. |
| John Loves Mary | Lt. Victor O’Leary | 1949-02-04 | After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That h… |
| Under Southern Stars | Dallas | 1937-02-20 | Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate Gen… |
| Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Self | 1936-09-11 | Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard’s private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the… |
| Breakdowns of 1949 | Self | 1949-01-01 | The Warner Bros. annual blooper reel for 1949…. |
| Out Where the Stars Begin | Wayne Morris | 1938-05-28 | When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born…. |
| So You Want to Be in Pictures | Himself (uncredited) | 1947-06-07 | Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in…. |
| China Clipper | Navigator on Clipper | 1936-08-11 | An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China…. |
| Polo Joe | Spectator (uncredited) | 1936-11-04 | A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy…. |
| Here Comes Carter | Bill | 1936-10-24 | A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals… |
| Once a Doctor | Sailor on Nirvana | 1937-01-23 | Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both inte… |
| Smart Blonde | Railroad Information Clerk (uncredited) | 1937-01-02 | Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing…. |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Himself | 1963-07-01 | A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood…. |
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