What famous person wore a hair piece?

[gman51]

I was watching TV and before going to a commercial there was a
trivia question asked. It asked what famous person wore a hair piece and it had three names to choose from. One of the names was John Wayne. I didn't think he wore a hair piece.
Well the answer was John Wayne. It said he commented once yes he wore a hair piece and it was real hair just not his real hair.
I had not ever heard that about him and I never saw any screw up with his hair piece in the movies. In the link below it says there were a couple times in movies that there ws a hair piece screw up. I imagine he would look so much different bald. He wasn't bozo the clown bald look though. He is still the Duke with or without hair.
John Wayne's wigs, he responded: "It's not phony. It's real hair. Of course, it's not mine, but it's real."

 

[Watchdog]

John Wayne was a movie star. A well paid actor. He could afford the finest hairpieces in the known universe. Everyone knew he wore them. Some of them looked fairly natural. Others looked as phony as that three-dollar bill everyone talks about.

Plus, he had cancer in later life. If he wasn't going bald due to genetics, he was sure going to lose his hair from the chemo.

Doesn't matter if he was the Duke, a rug's a rug and as he got older, the less natural his looked...you could spot it from fifty feet away.

 

[OLDSTER]

John Wayne was a movie star. A well paid actor. He could afford the finest hairpieces in the known universe. Everyone knew he wore them. Some of them looked fairly natural. Others looked as phony as that three-dollar bill everyone talks about.

Plus, he had cancer in later life. If he wasn't going bald due to genetics, he was sure going to lose his hair from the chemo.

Doesn't matter if he was the Duke, a rug's a rug and as he got older, the less natural his looked...you could spot it from fifty feet away.

Don't know who's was worse; John Wayne or Charlton Heston.

 

[arjay]

Sinatra’s?

 

[gman51]

Someone asked if Ted Danzen was really bald and some guy said as a cue ball. Ted said he wears wigs of different lengths so it looks like his hair would grow out and so he got a hair cut.
I think it is strange how so many bald men do anything to have hair yet the big thing these days is for men to shave their heads bald. Bald guys just save a lot not having to buy razors.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Chuck Norris wears a toupee.


I'm not gonna stare at it.

 

[Alpo]

In NORTH TO ALASKA, near the end of it there's a big free-for-all on a muddy street. In one shot Duke gets punched and as he falls back his hat comes off. No hair.

 

[CLASSIC12]

I’ve read that Sean Connery wore a toupee from the very first James Bond movie (Dr No) and throughout his career.

 

[LVSteve]

Walter Koenig of Star Trek fame began losing his hair during the show and wore a rug IIRC. For sure he did when he appeared in Babylon 5 as the super devious Mr Bester from Psy Corp.

 

[ExcitableBoy]

Chuck Norris wears a toupee.


I'm not gonna stare at it.

His fake hair could probably kick all of our butts!

 

[Onomea]

I don’t, and never have, understood the male fixation with male head hair. Kinda creepy, really.

I’m bald. Works for me. Yahoo!

Do like a good head of hair on a woman, generally speaking, but, truth be told, I have been intrigued by some short haired, even bald women too. I think, depending on the woman, of course, it can be a very sexy look.

Toupees are pathetic.

 

[Benchrest1]

Burt Reynolds is another one who wore a rug.

 

[swsig]

Carl Reiner wore a toupee, but was a good sport about it when The Dick Van Dyke Show had Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) reveal on national television that Carl's character, Alan Brady, was bald. Below is Laura's apology to Alan. It's funny even today.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGEOjxtQtWc[/ame]

 

[jscheck]

William Shatner comes to mind. Can't act AND no hair.

 

[sheepdawg]

I always think of Raymond Bailey when I think of notable people that wore a hairpiece.

Who was Raymond Bailey??? Milburn Drysdale on the Beverly Hillbillies. He's in several movies bald as a cueball.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fUgZHgJ8lM[/ame]

 

[rubiranch]

I don’t, and never have, understood the male fixation with male head hair. Kinda creepy, really.

I’m bald. Works for me. Yahoo!

Do like a good head of hair on a woman, generally speaking, but, truth be told, I have been intrigued by some short haired, even bald women too. I think, depending on the woman, of course, it can be a very sexy look.

Toupees are pathetic.

I do volunteer work at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital and see beautiful women with no hair all the time.

Its not the hair that makes them beautiful, its their smiles.

I see women who choose to wear wigs too. Some of the wigs look great and some not so great.

My hair is thinning really fast and I could care less. I do wear a ball cap because the sun has become my enemy.

No hair, don't care.

And comb overs SUCK!!!!!

 

[Watchdog]

William Shatner comes to mind. Can't act AND no hair.

Shatner's raked in so much money from Star Trek, endorsements, and commercials, he probably couldn't care less about hair...never mind acting.

I liked him in Star Trek, though. And in The Twilight Zone. Besides, he wasn't always balding. Gotta give the guy credit, too. He's still around, still kickin' it while a lot of actors of his generation are either dead or faded into obscurity. Fans still mob him at Star Trek conventions.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I got more things to worry about than hair.

 

[crazyphil]

I remember when I was a kid our United States Senator (Idaho)
was Glen Taylor. He wore a rug. In fact he had a company that
did quite well selling rugs. I think they called it Taylor Toppers.