Chris Wallace is an American-Australian television producer and entertainer.
Wallace was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1956, [1] majoring in radio-TV-theater. [2] He joined the Army and performed in plays while stationed in Germany, and produced programs for public television in Ohio after returning home. [2]
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. [3] He had previously written "Tide Comes In" which was recorded by Valentine Pringle. [4] Wallace followed this with an album of children's stories titled Uncle Wiggily and his Friends , released in 1970. [5]
His television career began as an announcer at WOSU-TV, [6] and later WBNS-TV. In 1968 he produced the Harlem Cultural Festival TV-series for WNEW-TV. [3]
He joined the cast of soap opera All My Children as police officer Mel Jacobi in 1978, [7] and made appearances in The Incredible Hulk and Trapper John, M.D. , before starring in his first major motion picture role in 1980 as Lieutenant Ed Clayton in New Year's Evil . [1]
Wallace relocated to Australia in the 1990s, and created the musical Nothing to Wear which debuted at Arts Centre Melbourne in 1995. [8] [9] He became an Australian citizen the following year, [8] and has continued performing in his own works such as two based around Mark Twain, The Mark Twain You Don't Know (2007), [10] [11] and Huckleberry: A Musical Adventure (2018). [12]