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Possessing his father's durable good looks, vigor and charm, this tall, strapping, exceedingly handsome second son of John Wayne had huge boots to fill in trying to escape his legendary father's shadow and corral Hollywood fame on his own terms. But attempt he did and, looking back, he may not have achieved the outright stardom of his father but certainly did quite admirably, making over 40 films in his career -- nine of them with his dad.

Patrick made his debut film bit at age 11 in his father classic western Rio Grande and proceeded to apprentice in The Quiet Man , The Sun Shines Bright , The Long Gray Line , Mister Roberts , and The Searchers , some with and some without his father's name above the title credits. All the above-mentioned films, however, were helmed by family friend and iconic director John Ford.

Following high school, he attended Loyola University and graduated in older brother Michael Wayne had graduated five years earlier. During this time, he went out on his own to star in his own film, the second-string oater The Young Land Realizing he was not quite ready to carry his own film, he returned to the family fold and gained more on-camera confidence throughout the s supporting his father in The Alamo , Donovan's Reef , McLintock!

A few exceptions included a role in Ford's sprawling epic Cheyenne Autumn , his turn as James Stewart 's son in the frontier adventure Shenandoah and in An Eye for an Eye in which he and Robert Lansing played bounty hunters.