John Wayne's heart problems, pneumonia on Brannigan and acting advice to Blackadder star
msn.comJohn Wayne played another tough cop in 1975 action thriller, Brannigan, opposite Richard Attenborough. Set in London, the movie saw Duke's Chicago detective Lieutenant Jim Brannigan organise the extradition of an American mobster, who is kidnapped and held to random.
The 67-year-old star had been suffering from major health problems for years, having had a cancerous lung removed a decade prior.
Just before filming on Brannigan began, Wayne - who would have been 115 this past week - had struggled through a severe bout of pneumonia and had also been diagnosed with heart problems, making the production particularly difficult for him.
Interestingly, Christopher Trumbo, the son of blacklisted Communist screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, was one of the film's scribes.
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