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

Periodicals

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

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