
Wayne Morris
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.727 |
Birthday | 1914-02-17 |
Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Also Known As | Bert DeWayne Morris, Bert DeWayne Morris Jr., |

1957

Paths of Glory
8.3/2974
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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Paths of Glory

1939

The Return of Doctor X
5.9/54
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multip...
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The Return of Doctor X

1949

The House Across the Street
4.5/4
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...
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The House Across the Street

1957

Plunder Road
6.9/41
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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Plunder Road

1936

Polo Joe
0/0
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
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Polo Joe

1949

Task Force
7/13
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...
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Task Force

1947

Deep Valley
5.8/20
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.
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Deep Valley

1954

The Green Buddha
5.4/5
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...
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The Green Buddha

1950

Johnny One-Eye
4.9/8
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...
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Johnny One-Eye

1937

Kid Galahad
6.898/49
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Kid Galahad

1940

Double Alibi
4.5/2
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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Double Alibi

1941

The Smiling Ghost
6.5/7
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...
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The Smiling Ghost

1948

The Time of Your Life
5.8/13
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...
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The Time of Your Life

1938

Men Are Such Fools
5.6/8
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...
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Men Are Such Fools

1940

Flight Angels
4.3/3
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...
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Flight Angels

1939

The Kid from Kokomo
6/1
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...
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The Kid from Kokomo

1937

Under Southern Stars
0/0
Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate Gen...
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Under Southern Stars

1949

The Younger Brothers
5/1
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...
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The Younger Brothers

1941

I Wanted Wings
5.1/7
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...
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I Wanted Wings

1954

Riding Shotgun
6/22
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.
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Riding Shotgun

1938

Brother Rat
5/2
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
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Brother Rat

1937

Submarine D-1
4.7/6
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...
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Submarine D-1

1947

The Voice of the Turtle
6.6/9
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.
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The Voice of the Turtle

1941

Bad Men of Missouri
5.6/5
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...
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Bad Men of Missouri

1947

So You Want to Be in Pictures
5.8/5
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
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So You Want to Be in Pictures

1951

The Big Gusher
5/1
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...
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The Big Gusher

1940

Gambling on the High Seas
4.7/3
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
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Gambling on the High Seas

1938

Valley of the Giants
6/5
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
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Valley of the Giants

1949

A Kiss in the Dark
4.7/8
Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.
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A Kiss in the Dark

1950

Stage to Tucson
5.7/3
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...
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Stage to Tucson

1937

Land Beyond the Law
7/1
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
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Land Beyond the Law

1936

King of Hockey
5/4
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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King of Hockey

1955

Lord of the Jungle
6.4/5
The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants.
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Lord of the Jungle

1940

Ladies Must Live
6/1
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.
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Ladies Must Live

1938

Love, Honor and Behave
3.5/4
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
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Love, Honor and Behave

1948

The Big Punch
5.3/3
Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.
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The Big Punch

1956

The Gelignite Gang
6.4/3
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...
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The Gelignite Gang

1940

Brother Rat and a Baby
5.2/3
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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Brother Rat and a Baby

1952

Arctic Flight
6.8/3
Mike Wein, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy United States businessman...
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Arctic Flight

1951

Yellow Fin
4.5/2
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...
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Yellow Fin

1949

John Loves Mary
4.8/4
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...
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John Loves Mary

1938

Out Where the Stars Begin
6.5/3
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.
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Out Where the Stars Begin

1936

Here Comes Carter
5/3
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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Here Comes Carter

1950

Sierra Passage
6/1
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...
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Sierra Passage

1953

Fighting Lawman
6/1
A US Marshal hunts down three bank robbers that are living under new identities.
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Fighting Lawman

1941

Three Sons o' Guns
5/1
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
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Three Sons o' Guns

1950

The Tougher They Come
3/1
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...
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The Tougher They Come

1952

Desert Pursuit
5.7/3
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...
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Desert Pursuit

1957

The Crooked Sky
5.7/3
An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.
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The Crooked Sky

1954

Two Guns and a Badge
0/0
In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is...
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Two Guns and a Badge

1953

Texas Bad Man
0/0
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...
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Texas Bad Man

1955

The Master Plan
6/1
Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately...
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The Master Plan

1937

Smart Blonde
6.2/9
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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Smart Blonde

1937

Once a Doctor
6.3/3
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...
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Once a Doctor

1954

The Desperado
6.6/5
"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fug...
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The Desperado

1938

The Kid Comes Back
5.3/3
A ring veteran turns a Texas tenderfoot into a winning fighter.
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The Kid Comes Back

1940

The Quarterback
0/0
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...
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The Quarterback

1940

An Angel from Texas
4.8/4
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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An Angel from Texas

1955

The Lonesome Trail
7.5/2
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...
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The Lonesome Trail

1951

The Bushwhackers
5.1/8
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that ranch...
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The Bushwhackers

1953

The Marksman
0/0
Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers.
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The Marksman

1947

Blow-Ups of 1947
6.3/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
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Blow-Ups of 1947

1953

Star of Texas
0/0
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...
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Star of Texas

1961

Buffalo Gun
0/0
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...
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Buffalo Gun

1949

Breakdowns of 1949
6/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1949.
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Breakdowns of 1949

1954

Port of Hell
0/0
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...
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Port of Hell

1936

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
6/1
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...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

1936

China Clipper
5.6/8
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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China Clipper

1955

Cross Channel
5/1
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...
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