Born in 1962 in Los Angeles under the name John Ethan Morrison, Ethan Wayne is the son of the man the whole world knows under the name John Wayne — “The Duke” —, an emblematic figure of the American western whose simple evocation was enough to attract crowds to cinemas around the world.
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His first name itself tells something of family history. Ethan is the character played by his father in *The Prisoner of the Desert*,
a true masterpiece of the genre. In this family, the seventh art was not a profession, it was a way of being in the world.
His childhood? Anything but banal. Film sets, meetings with actors who have become legendary, walks on the family yacht… Ethan grew up in a celebrity bubble where glamor rubbed shoulders with constant pressure. A fascinating daily life, but far from being without constraints.
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Rather than flee this heavy legacy, Ethan decided to make it his own
in his own way. At the end of the 80s, he joined the cast of the cult series *Love, Fame and Beauty* in the skin of Storm Logan — a role that he played
