Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace
Wallace in 1997
Born	Myron Leon Wallace (1918-05-09)May 9, 1918 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	April 7, 2012(2012-04-07) (aged 93) New Canaan, Connecticut, U.S.
Education	University of Michigan (BA)
Occupations	Television personality radio announcer journalist game show host actor
Years active	1939–2008
Notable credit	60 Minutes (1968–2008)
Spouses	Norma Kaphan ​ ​ (m. 1940; div. 1948)​ Buff Cobb ​ ​ (m. 1949; div. 1955)​ Lorraine Périgord ​ ​ (m. 1955; div. 1986)​ Mary Yates ​ (m. 1986)​
Children	2, including Chris

Myron Leon Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. Known for his investigative journalism,^[1] he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspondents featured on CBS news program 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. He was the father of Chris Wallace.

Wallace interviewed many politicians, celebrities, and academics, such as Tina Turner, Joseph Bonanno, Vladimir Horowitz, Bobby Fischer, Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, Pearl S. Buck, Deng Xiaoping, Ronald Reagan, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jiang Zemin, Ruhollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Louis Farrakhan, Manuel Noriega, John Nash, Gordon B. Hinckley, Vladimir Putin, Barbra Streisand, Salvador Dalí, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, William Carlos Williams, Mickey Cohen, Roy Cohn, Dean Reed, Jimmy Fratianno, Aldous Huxley, and Ayn Rand.^[2][3][4]