- published: 09 Aug 2013
- views: 765740
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, and was named the all-time top money-making star. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.
Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa but his family relocated to the greater Los Angeles area when he was four years old. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to USC as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he mostly appeared in small bit parts. His acting breakthrough came in 1939 with John Ford's Stagecoach, making him an instant star. Wayne would go on to star in 142 pictures, primarily typecast in Western films.
Among his best known films are The Quiet Man (1952), which follows him as an Irish-American boxer and his love affair with a fiery spinster played by Maureen O'Hara; The Searchers (1956), in which he plays a Civil War veteran who seeks out his abducted niece; Rio Bravo (1959), playing a Sheriff with Dean Martin; True Grit (1969), playing a humorous U.S. Marshal who sets out to avenge a man's death in the role that won Wayne an Academy Award; and The Shootist (1976), his final screen performance in which he plays an aging gunslinger battling cancer.
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and rapist who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home, buried three others elsewhere on his property, and discarded the remains of his last four known victims in a nearby river. He was convicted of 33 murders and sentenced to death for 12 of these killings. He was executed in May 1994.
Gacy later became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown", a character he devised himself.
John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois, the second of three children born to John Stanley Gacy (June 20, 1900 – December 25, 1969) and Marion Elaine Robinson (May 4, 1908 – December 14, 1989). Gacy was of Polish and Danish heritage. (His paternal grandparents had been born in Poland.) As a child, he was both overweight and nonathletic. He was close to his two sisters and mother, but endured a difficult relationship with his father, an alcoholic who was physically abusive toward both his wife and children.
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Actors: David C. Hayes (actor), Jim Van Bebber (actor), Ron Atkins (director), Heidi Martinuzzi (actress), Heidi Martinuzzi (actress), Rod Sweitzer (actor), John Giancaspro (actor), Lawrence Bucher (actor), Stella McKinney (actress),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Krista Johnston (miscellaneous crew), Patrick Gilmore (actor), Bob Bedard (miscellaneous crew), Michael Kopsa (actor), William Forsythe (actor), Stefan Wodoslawsky (miscellaneous crew), Josée Bernard (producer), Andrew Airlie (actor), Tom Berry (producer), Jesse Moss (actor), Dee Jay Jackson (actor), Eric Keenleyside (actor), E. Andrew Pecs (miscellaneous crew), Clark Peterson (producer), Clark Peterson (writer),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Brooke Lewis (actress), Jed Rowen (actor), Peter Zhmutski (actor), Harland Williams (actor), Lee Perkins (actor), Elissa Dowling (actress), Marc Wasserman (actor), Irwin Keyes (actor), Art LaFleur (actor), Randal Malone (actor), Jerry Maren (actor), Ford Austin (actor), Ethan Phillips (actor), Ford Austin (producer), Felissa Rose (actress),
Plot: A secret government has been trying to create the ultimate killer using the DNA of infamous killers Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy, but there's one big problem: they've escaped! Bloody mayhem stretches across the United States as they go on the ultimate killing spree. Trying to stop the maniacal madness is Ringo, a hick warrior, using only a shotgun and a bottle of whiskey. It all leads up to the ultimate showdown!
Keywords: abbreviation-in-title, character-name-in-title, first-part, jeffrey-dahmer, killing-spree, period-in-title, serial-killer, versus-in-titleActors: Adam Baldwin (actor), Larry Hankin (actor), Glenn Morshower (actor), Jesse H. Rivard (miscellaneous crew), Rick Dean (actor), Oneita Parker (costume designer), John Laughlin (actor), Beth Dewey (miscellaneous crew), Jeff Orgill (editor), Erik Godal (composer), Dan Bell (actor), Matthew R. Brady (miscellaneous crew), Wendy Schaal (miscellaneous crew), Larry Rattner (producer), Susan R. Rodgers (producer),
Plot: Wisconsin, 1953, John Gacy, Sr. forces his fat teenager son to have sex with him; after 18 months he is released and returns home. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. grows up as a respected family father and businessman, even tipped for a political career with the Democrats. Alas, while he loudly abhors homosexuality, the monster uses the crawl space under his home for the vice of his abusive father: over thirty innocent boys end up buried there, after horrible abuse ending in torturous death, causing it to reek unspeakably, being full of insects decomposing the stream of young corpses. Some victims worked for him, others he just picked up 'for fun' or lured in under various pretenses, in the end even the strong Tommy who rented his guest room...
Keywords: 1970s, abusive-father, anal-rape, bandage, baseball-bat, best-friend, billiards, blood, body-bag, body-in-trunkActors: Brian Dennehy (actor), Gerry Quigley (actor), Tim Progosh (actor), Shawn Lawrence (actor), Scott Hylands (actor), Gary Reineke (actor), J. Winston Carroll (actor), John Boylan (actor), David Gardner (actor), Michael Copeman (actor), Jay Brazeau (actor), Luis Guzmán (actor), Brett Halsey (actor), Meg Foster (actress), Timm Zemanek (actor),
Plot: "To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
Keywords: attorney, based-on-true-story, bisexual-man, briefs, chicago-illinois, chief-of-police, clown, crawl-space, dangerous-criminal, detective