Myron Leon \”Mike\” Wallace was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. He was one of the original correspondents for CBS’ 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008.
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Myron Leon \”Mike\” Wallace was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. He was one of the original correspondents for CBS’ 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008. Wallace interviewed many politicians, celebrities, and academics, such as Pearl S. Buck, Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jiang Zemin, Ruhollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Manuel Noriega, John Nash, Gordon B. Hinckley, Vladimir Putin, Maria Callas, Salvador Dalí, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, William Carlos Williams, Mickey Cohen, Dean Reed, Jimmy Fratianno, Aldous Huxley, and Ayn Rand. Wallace also hosted the pilot episode of Nothing but the Truth, which was helmed by Bud Collyer when it aired under the title To Tell the Truth. He also made commercials for a variety of products including Procter & Gamble’s Fluffo brand of toilet paper. Wallace produced a five-part documentary about the organization, The Hate That Produced, which aired during the week of July 13, 1959. The program marked the first time that the most white people heard about the Nation of Islam, Louis Lomax, the leader of the Nation. In 1959, Wallace told the nation about the nation of Islam and told it about Louis LOMax, who was the first black leader of that nation.
Wallace was born on May 9, 1918, in Brookline, Massachusetts to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. He identified as a Jew and claimed it was his ethnicity throughout his life. Wallace appeared as a guest on the popular radio quiz show Information Please on February 7, 1939, when he was in his last year at the University of Michigan. As Myron Wallace, he portrayed New York City detective Lou Kagel on the short-lived radio drama series Crime on the Waterfront. He portrayed the title character on The Crime Files of Flamond on WGN and in syndication. Wallace hosted a number of game shows in the 1950s, including The Big Surprise, Who’s the Boss? and Who Pays? Wallace announced wrestling in Chicago in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He had displayed his comic skills when he appeared opposite Spike Jones in dialogue routines on Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life. Wallace announced for the radio shows Curtain Time, Ned Jordan: Secret Agent, Sky King, The Green Hornet, Curtain time, and The Spike Jones Show. In 1949, Wallace began to move to the new medium of television, in that year, he starred under the name MyronWallace in ashort-lived police drama, Stand By for Crime. Wallace was a staff announcer for the CBS radio network.
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