Chris Wallace is an American-Australian television producer and entertainer.
Career
Wallace was born in
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in Allen County, Indiana, United States, and its county seat. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 at the 2020 census ...
and graduated from
Ohio Wesleyan University
Ohio Wesleyan University (abbrevriated OWU) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Ohio Valley, Centra ...
in 1956,
majoring in radio-TV-theater.
He joined the Army and performed in plays while stationed in Germany, and produced programs for public television in Ohio after returning home.
He recorded "The Baby Smile" for Morningside Records in 1968, a Christmas song that was released with a Spanish language version on the b-side.
He had previously written "Tide Comes In" which was recorded by
Valentine Pringle. Wallace followed this with an album of children's stories titled
Uncle Wiggily and his Friends, released in 1970.
His television career began as an announcer at
WOSU-TV
WOSU-TV (channel 34) is a PBS member television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Owned by Ohio State University as part of WOSU Public Media, it is sister to public radio stations WOSU-FM (89.7) and WOSA (101.1 FM). The three station ...
, and later
WBNS-TV
WBNS-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside the company's sole radio properties, WBNS (1460 AM) and WBNS-FM (97.1). The stations share studios on Twin ...
. In 1968 he produced the
Harlem Cultural Festival
The Harlem Cultural Festival was a series of events, mainly music concerts, held annually in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, between 1967 and 1969 which celebrated soul, jazz and gospel and black music and culture and promoted Black pride. The m ...
TV-series for
WNEW-TV
WNYW (channel 5) is a television station in New York City, serving as the Flagship (broadcasting), flagship of the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside Secauc ...
.
He joined the cast of soap opera
All My Children
''All My Children'' (often shortened to ''AMC'') is an American television soap opera that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2 ...
as police officer Mel Jacobi in 1978, and made appearances in
The Incredible Hulk
The Hulk is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in the debut issue of '' The Incredible Hulk'' (May 1962). In his comic book ...
and
Trapper John MD, before starring in his first major motion picture role in 1980 as Lieutenant Ed Clayton in
''New Year's Evil''.
Wallace relocated to Australian in the 1990s, and created the musical Nothing to Wear which debuted at
Arts Centre Melbourne
Arts Centre Melbourne, originally known as the Victorian Arts Centre and briefly called the Arts Centre, is a performing arts centre consisting of a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, located in the central M ...
in 1995.
He became an Australian citizen the following year,
and has continued performing in his own works such as two based around
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Fau ...
, ''The Mark Twain You Don't Know'' (2007), and ''Huckleberry: A Musical Adventure'' (2018).
References
External links
Chris Wallace's website{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Chris
Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)