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Bruce Alexander McPhee (11 February 1927 – 22 September 2009) was a former Australian motor racing driver.
He is most famous for winning the 1968 Hardie-Ferodo 500 (now the Bathurst 1000), defeating both the Holden and Ford factory teams. He drove a Holden Monaro GTS327 painted yellow and black stripes with the number 13. His co-driver, who drove just one lap that day, was Barry Mulholland. McPhee would later claim in Australian Muscle Car magazine that an attempt to sabotage his Monaro was made the night before the race. As the race cars were road registered in that era, McPhee had driven the car back to his motel in Bathurst for the night. When he came out on race morning to fill the car with petrol, a number of tree leaves floated to the top of the filler. Luckily this was found before any damage would have put the car out of the race.[citation needed]
McPhee entered the 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 originally intending to run one of the new Monaro GTS350's but when he received no help from Holden to do so he instead drove a privately-entered XW Ford Falcon GTHO. Driving with Mulholland who again only drove one lap, the McPhee Falcon finished a close second at Bathurst to the Colin Bond/Tony Roberts HDT Monaro GTS350. Many, including HDT boss Harry Firth, believe that if not for a late stop for fuel, McPhee and Mulholland would have won in '69 and made it back to back Bathurst 500's. McPhee briefly joined the Ford works team for the 1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500. His car running near perfect at the end of the 500 miles, McPhee finished second after following team orders not to pass lead Ford driver Allan Moffat.
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.
Actors: Nancy Kwan (actress), Frank McRae (actor), Sy Richardson (actor), Emilio Ferrari (producer), Lloyd Kino (actor), Jackie Debatin (actress), Debra Christofferson (actress), Sunmin Park (producer), Olivia Brown (actress), Gary Grossman (actor), Yoshio Be (actor), Christopher Holden (composer), Sharon Alsina (actress), Tashiba Jones (costume designer), J. Ethan Park (producer),
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