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Wayne Newton
Age
71
Birthday
Apr. 3rd, 1942
Born in
Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Height
6' 2"
Wayne Newton's Main TV Roles
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Main Movie Roles2006 - Smokin' Aces2001 - Ocean's Eleven 1997 - Vegas Vacation 1993 - Best of the Best 2 1990 - The Adventures of Ford Fairlane 1989 - Licence to Kill |
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TRIVIA:
- He had #1 hit song on the American pop charts called "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast".
- Has an estate called "Casa de Shenandoah" on the southeast side of Las Vegas.
- His role as "Professor Joe Butcher" in _Licence to Kill (1989)_ (qv) was the fulfillment of an old ambition: to participate in a "James Bond - 007" movie.
- Met 'Elvis Presley' (qv) while the two were working at Paramount. They became close friends.
- His mother was of German/Cherokee Indian and father of Irish/Powahatan Indian background.
- Was discovered by 'Jackie Gleason (I)' (qv).
- (28 April 1999) Singer 'Tony Orlando (I)' (qv) sued him for locking him out of the Branson, Missouri night club that the two co-owned.
- Declared bankruptcy in 1992, yet was once listed in the Guiness Book as the world's highest paid entertainer.









