George D. Wallace

George D. Wallace

actor

George D. Wallace was born on Jun 08, 1917 in USA. George D. Wallace's big-screen debut came with The Sun Sets at Dawn directed by Paul Sloane in 1950, strarring Prison Guard (uncredited). George D. Wallace is known for The Forsaken Westerns directed by Bob Terry, Bob Terry stars as Self - Host and Scott Brady as Sheriff Cliff McLean. The upcoming new tvshow George D. Wallace plays is The Forsaken Westerns - Season 6 which will be released on Mar 01, 2017.

George D. Wallace was born in New York and, at age 13, moved with his mom and her new husband to McMechen, West Virginia, a coal mining town where the boy began working in the mines. He joined the Navy in 1936, got out in 1940, and then went right back in again when World War II started. A chief boatswain's mate, he ended up in Los Angeles after a total of eight years in the service. Wallace supported himself with an array of odd jobs, from working for a meat packer ("knockin' steers in the head") to lumber-jacking in the High Sierras. A stint as a singing bartender attracted the attention of Hollywood columnist Jimmy Fidler, who helped him get his show-biz start. Wallace enrolled in drama school in the late 1940s, while earning his living tending the greens at MGM. He soon began landing jobs in films and TV, most notably as Commando Cody in the Republic serial Radar Men from the Moon (1952). He later made his Broadway debut in Richard Rodgers' "Pipe Dreams," replaced John Raitt in "The Pajama Game" and was nominated for a Tony for his leading role in "New Girl in Town" with Gwen Verdon. Other stage roles have included "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" opposite Ginger Rogers, "Jennie" with Mary Martin, "Most Happy Fella" (during production, he met his present wife, actress Jane A. Johnston), "Camelot" (as King Arthur), "Man of La Mancha," "Company," and more. In 1960, his career was stalled when a horse fell on him and broke his back during the making of an episode of TV's Le monde merveilleux de Disney (1954)'s "Swamp Fox." His painful recovery took seven months. He sometimes billed himself George D. H. Wallace, to avoid confusion with comic George Wallace.

  • Birthday

    Jun 08, 1917
  • Place of Birth

    New York City, New York, USA

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