John Wayne is one of the most influential American actors in film history. Born Marion Morrison on May 26, 1907, "The Duke" played in over a hundred feature films, especially Westerns. For several generations of moviegoers, he is the incarnation of the American spirit, with his big mouth and his hat. While Arte broadcasts this Sunday April 9 Hatari !, we propose to you to return on the last years of the life of the actor and on the disease which prevailed, the cancer. An illness contracted on a shoot and that did not take that he ...
In 1956, John Wayne took the title role of Dick Powell's film The Conqueror. This adventure film tells the story of Temujin (John Wayne), the future Genghis Khan, and his brother Jmuga (Pedro Armendariz) through many intrigues and battles. If this feature was far from a success, this failure was the younger of the concerns of the actors a few years later. Because the film was shot in 1953, in the Nevada Desert near Yucca Flat. It was here that the US Army was carrying out its nuclear tests in the open air.
46 people who died
For four months, the film crew is exposed to radiation 400 times the dose normally supported by the human body. Logically, the devastating consequences are not long in coming. Of the 220 people involved in the shooting, 91 have developed cancers and 46 have died, including director Dick Powell and actor Pedro Armendariz, both of whom died in 1963
Lung and stomach cancer
If death did not strike John Wayne as quickly, he nevertheless contracted lung cancer in 1964. Its very large consumption of cigarettes did not of course helped ... In 1973, it is operated with open heart and his situation does not improve since he is also contracting stomach cancer. On January 12, 1979, he undergoes another very heavy operation, during which almost all his stomach is removed. After a few months of worsening health and a final public appearance on April 9 at the Oscars, John Wayne died of his illness on June 11, 1979 at the age of 72. He leaves behind a hundred films and the image of an actor still immortal.

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