Mike Wallace


Commentator, Investigative Journalist, News Anchor, Tv Host

About

Also Known As
Myron Leon Wallace
Birth Place
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Born
May 09, 1918
Died
April 07, 2012

Family & Companions

Norma Kapham
Wife
Divorced.
Buff Cobb
Wife
Divorced.
Lorraine Wallace
Wife
Divorced.
Mary Yates
Wife

Bibliography

"Close Encounter"
Mike Wallace and Gary Paul Gates (1984)
"Mike Wallace Asks"
Mike Wallace (1958)

Biography

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Toots (2006)
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996)
Himself

Special Thanks (Feature Film)

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1993)
Thanks

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996)
Other

Cast (Special)

Tell Me a Story: The Man Who Made '60 Minutes' (2004)
CBS at 75: A Primetime Celebration (2003)
The 57th Annual Tony Awards (2003)
George Segal: American Still Life (2001)
Interviewee
2001: A Year For History (2001)
Intimate Portrait: Liz Smith (2001)
Breaking the News (2001)
The Great American History Quiz: Heroes and Villains (2000)
Election Night 2000 (2000)
Correspondent
The 70s: The Decade That Changed Television (2000)
Shirley MacLaine: This Time Around (2000)
Gays in the Military (2000)
It's Only Talk: The Real Story of America's Talk Shows (1999)
Intimate Portrait: Lesley Stahl (1999)
The Great American History Quiz (1999)
Person of the Century: CBS News/Time 100 (1999)
Anchor
60 Minutes at 30 (1998)
Art Buchwald: The Wit of Washington (1998)
Interviewee
Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes (1998)
Dead Blue: Surviving Depression (1998)
Skitch Henderson at 80 (1998)
NYTV: By the People Who Made It (1998)
CBS: The First 50 Years (1998)
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) 13th Annual Hall of Fame (1998)
Performer
Intimate Portrait: Helen Gurley Brown (1998)
Interviewee
Artists & Entertainers: People of the Century: CBS News/Time 100 (1998)
Anchor
Nancy Reagan: The President's Leading Lady (1997)
Mike Wallace Remembers (1997)
50 Years of Television: A Celebration of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Golden Anniversary (1997)
Smoke in the Eye (1996)
The Trial of O.J. Simpson: Anatomy of a Verdict (1996)
Anchor
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud (1996)
Voice
Election Night 96 (1996)
Reporter (Campaign Commericials)
In the Killing Fields of America (1995)
Malcolm X: Make It Plain (1994)
A Century of Women (1994)
Himself
General William Westmoreland (1993)
TV Guide: 40th Anniversary Special (1993)
One on One: Classic Television Interviews (1993)
60 Minutes... 25 Years (1993)
The American Television Awards (1993)
Performer
1968 (1993)
Donahue: The 25th Anniversary (1992)
Watergate: The Secret Story (1992)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1991)
60 Minutes: The Entertainers (1991)
Correspondent; Host
World War II: A Personal Journey (1991)
Funny Women of Television: A Museum of Television & Radio Tribute (1991)
Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Returns to Russia (1991)
The Television Academy Hall of Fame (1990)
Performer
America's Toughest Assignment: Solving the Education Crisis (1990)
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
Mike Wallace, Then and Now, A CBS News Special (1990)
CBS News Special: Lucy (1989)
The Politics of Privacy (1988)
Campaign '88: Election Night (1988)
Reporter
The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception (1982)
The Mike Wallace Profiles (1981)
Host
The Mike Wallace Profiles (1981)
Narration

Writer (Special)

Artists & Entertainers: People of the Century: CBS News/Time 100 (1998)
Writer
1968 (1993)
Writer
Watergate: The Secret Story (1992)
Writer
Mike Wallace, Then and Now, A CBS News Special (1990)
Writer
The Mike Wallace Profiles (1981)
Writer

Special Thanks (Special)

Artists & Entertainers: People of the Century: CBS News/Time 100 (1998)
Writer
1968 (1993)
Writer
Watergate: The Secret Story (1992)
Writer
Mike Wallace, Then and Now, A CBS News Special (1990)
Writer
The Mike Wallace Profiles (1981)
Writer

Misc. Crew (Special)

A Century of Women (1994)
Other

Cast (Short)

The Shy Guy (1947)
Narrator

Life Events

1951

Hosted the short-lived CBS game show "Guess Again"

1951

Co-hosted (with Buff Cobb) the 15-minute program featuring the "man and woman on the street" titled "All Around the Town"

1951

Co-hosted (with Buff Cobb) the 45-minute CBS celebrity interview show "Mike and Buff"

1953

Hosted the CBS game show "I'll Buy That"

1954

Hosted the short-lived ABC game show "What's in a Word"

1954

Hosted the ABC game show "Who's the Boss?"

1955

First association with CBS ended

1955

Hosted the NBC game show "The Big Surprise"; replaced Jack Berry for the show's second season

1955

Hosted the CBS game show "The $100,000 Big Surprise"

1956

Appeared as a panelist on the game show "Nothing But the Truth," precursor to "To Tell the Truth" (CBS)

1956

Hosted the news and interview program "Night Beat"

1957

Hosted the ABC interview series "The Mike Wallace Interview"

1959

Hosted the short-lived NBC game show "Who Pays?"

1961

Renewed association with CBS; hosted and narrated the CBS documentary series "Biography"

1962

Reported events happening in Vietnam

1963

Named a CBS news correspondent

1968

Served as co-editor and co-anchor of CBS news program "60 Minutes"

1982

Broadcast work exposed to considerable criticism and scrutiny after his CBS documentary on Gen. William Westmoreland aired; trial eventually showed that how Wallace's work was altered by producers; case settled without Wallace having to testify

1990

Wrote and hosted the CBS compilation retrospective "Mike Wallace, Then and Now, a CBS News Special"

1991

Anchored the CBS news panel discussion program "Whose Side Are You On?"

2006

Announced he would no longer be a regular contributor on "60 Minutes" (CBS), though continued to do occasional reports

Family

Chris Wallace
Son
TV news correspondent. Works for NBC; married second wife Lorraine Smothers in October 1997.
Pauline Wallace
Daughter
Peter Wallace
Son
Killed in a climbing accident in Greece in 1962.

Companions

Norma Kapham
Wife
Divorced.
Buff Cobb
Wife
Divorced.
Lorraine Wallace
Wife
Divorced.
Mary Yates
Wife

Bibliography

"Close Encounter"
Mike Wallace and Gary Paul Gates (1984)
"Mike Wallace Asks"
Mike Wallace (1958)