Mike Wallace Biography (1918-)

Full name, Myron Leon Wallace; born May 9, 1918, in Brookline, MA; son of Frank (an insurance broker) and Zina (maiden name, Sharfman) Wallace; married Kappy Kaphan, August 27, 1940 (divorced, 1948); married Buff Cobb (an actress),1949 (divorced, 1955); married Lorraine Perrigord (an artist), August 21, 1955 (divorced, 1985); married Mary Yates, June 28, 1986; children: (first marriage) Peter (deceased), Christopher (a television news correspondent); (stepchildren, fourth marriage) Anthony, Pauline. Addresses: Office: CBS News, Columbia Broadcasting System, 524 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019.; Contact: 555 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Interviewer, reporter, writer

Birth Details

May 9, 1918

Brookline, Massachusetts, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Appearances
• Series
• (As Myron Wallace; television debut) Lieutenant Anthony Kidd, Stand byfor Crime, ABC, 1949
• Barker (in commercials), Super Circus, 1949
• (As Myron Wallace) Host, Majority Rules, ABC, 1949-1950
• Host, Guess Again, CBS, 1951
• Announcer, Sky King, 1951
• (With Buff Cobb) Host, All around the Town (interview show), CBS,1951-1952
• (With Cobb) Host, Mike and Buff (variety show; originally titled Two Sleepy People), CBS, c. 1951-1953
• Host, I'll Buy That, CBS, 1953
• Host, Adventure (educational series for children), CBS, 1953
• Emcee (July-August), Who's the Boss?, 1954
• Host, What's in a Word, CBS (one source says ABC), 1954
• Panelist, The Name's the Same, ABC, 1955
• Host, The Big Surprise (also known as The $100,000 Big Surprise), NBC, 1956-1957
• Interviewer, Nightbeat, WABD, New York City, 1956-1957
• Host, The Mike Wallace Interview, ABC, c. 1957-1958
• Host, Who Pays?, NBC, 1959
• (With Joyce Davidson) Host, P.M. East-P.M. West (talk show), syndicated, 1961-1962
• Host, Biography (documentary), syndicated, c. 1961-1964
• Anchor, The CBS Morning News, CBS, c. 1963-1966
• Host, "The National Drivers Test," CBS News Special, CBS, 1965
• Correspondent, 60 Minutes, CBS, 1968-?
• Correspondent, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, CBS, c. 1970
• Host, The Twentieth Century with Mike Wallace, Arts and Entertainment, 1995
• Pilots
• Host and narrator, The Mike Wallace Profiles, CBS, 1981
• Specials
• Presenter, The Hate That Hate Produced, 1959
• "Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception," CBS Reports, CBS, 1982
• Special correspondent, Campaign '86: Election Night, CBS, 1986
• Reporter, Campaign '88: Election Night, CBS, 1988
• The Politics of Privacy (panel discussion), PBS, 1988
• Guest, Regis & Kathie Lee: Special Edition, 1988
• Ethics in America (panel discussion), PBS, 1989
• CBS News Special: Lucy, CBS, 1989
• America's Toughest Assignment: Solving the Education Crisis (documentary), CBS, 1990
• Eyes on the Prize II (documentary), PBS, 1990
• Mike Wallace: Then and Now, A CBS News Special, CBS, 1990
• Night of 100 Stars III, NBC, 1990
• The Television Academy Hall of Fame, Fox, 1990
• Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Returns to Russia (documentary), PBS, 1991
• Watergate: The Secret Story, 1992
• Himself (TV journalist New York City; and archive footage), The Real Malcolm X, 1992
• "General William Westmoreland," Biography, Arts and Entertainment,1993
• TV Guide: Fortieth Anniversary Special, Fox, 1993
• 60 Minutes ... 25 Years, CBS, 1993
• 1968, CBS, 1993
• A Century of Women, TBS, 1994
• Himself (NYC anchorman), "Malcolm X: Make It Plain," The American Experience, PBS, 1994
• Co-anchor, In the Killing Fields of America, CBS, 1995
• Anchor, The Trial of O. J. Simpson: An Insider's View with Dominick Dunne, The Learning Channel, 1996
• Correspondent, Election Night '96, CBS, 1996
• "Smoke in the Eye" (also known as "Media and Tobacco"), Frontline,PBS, 1996
• Narrator, "Buckminster Fuller: Thinking out Loud," American Masters, PBS, 1996
• Narrator, "Nancy Reagan: The President's Leading Lady," Biography,Arts and Entertainment, 1997
• Fifty Years of Television: A Celebration of the Academy of TelevisionArts and Sciences Golden Anniversary, HBO, 1997
• Mike Wallace Remembers, CBS, 1997
• Dead Blue: Surviving Depression, HBO, 1998
• (Uncredited) Narrator: Movietone Newsreel, Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood, 2001
• Himself, Breaking the News (documentary), 2001
• Episodic
• Suspense, CBS, 1953
• "The Roman Kid," Studio One, CBS, 1953
• "For the Defense," Studio One, CBS, 1955
• "The Changing Ways of Love," The Seven Lively Arts, CBS, 1957
• Himself, "All the Life That's Fit to Print," Murphy Brown, CBS, 1993
• Himself, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," Great Books, 1999
• Radio Appearances
• Episodic
• Narrated episodes of radio series, including The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. Appeared on daytime serials, including Ma Perkins and The Guiding Light.
• Stage Appearances
• Reclining Figure, Broadway production, 1954
• Stage Work
• Coproducer, Debut, Theatre-by-the Sea, Matunuck, RI, 1955
• Film Appearances
• Narrator, Shy Guy, 1947
• Narrator, Improve Your Spelling, 1948
• Narrator (English version), Ilja muromets (also known as The Epic Hero and the Beast and The Sword and the Dragon), 1956
• (Uncredited) Himself, A Face in the Crowd, 1957
• (Uncredited; archive footage) Himself, The Candidate, 1972
• Himself, Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time, 1992
• Himself (CBS News correspondent; and archive footage), Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, Strand Releasing, 1996
• Voice (archive footage), The Story of X, 1998
• WRITINGS
• Television Pilots
• (With Harry Moses) The Mike Wallace Profiles, CBS, 1981
• Television Specials
• Mike Wallace: Then and Now, A CBS News Special, CBS, 1990
• Nonfiction
• Mike Wallace Asks, Simon & Schuster, 1958
• Autobiography
• (With Gary Paul Gates) Close Encounters: Mike Wallace's Own Story,Morrow, 1984
• Author of column, "Mike Wallace Asks," New York Post, 1957-58.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

• People Weekly, December 1, 1997, p. 109
• Playboy, December, 1996, p. 51
• Time, November 1, 1999, p. 92