MAKING TIME AMID FILMING FOR A GROWING SON

Ethan, who was 17 when the screen legend died in 1979, has warm memories of life on the road with his actor father (a dad of seven) and mother Pilar (Wayne’s third wife). “He’d read his scripts until he fell asleep,” says his son. “In between (takes), he always made time for me as a little boy to come in and get a hug or sit on his lap. He was very open that way. But he expected you not to walk through someone’s eye line or mess with the camera.”

JOHN R. HAMILTON, JOHN WAYNE ENTERPRISES The actor and his son relax on the set of Katie Elder, with Martin in the background. Ethan says Wayne was “very social.”