Actor, Singer. He was born in New York and died in Los Angeles. Sometimes he was credited as George D. Wallace. He had a long career which encompassed playing leading man to Broadway and starring in the cult sci-fi serial Radar Men from the Moon, and appearing in over 100 television shows and movies. In 1952, he starred in the Republic serial Radar Men from the Moon, as Commando Cody. During the filming of Forbidden Planet, Wallace was introduced to the composer Richard Rodgers, who heard him sing and cast him in the musical Pipe Dream (1955) For his performance in the 1957 musical New Girl in Town, he was nominated for the New York Critics' Circle award as best actor in a musical. His last Broadway appearance was in the short-lived baseball musical The First (1981). His prolific work on television included Hill Street Blues, Moonlighting, Cagney and Lacey and, in 2002, the role of Old Xander Harris in the "Hell's Bells" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In a travel, he suffered a fall and broken his leg, but after five weeks of the surgery, he died in Cedars Sinai Hospital.
Actor, Singer. He was born in New York and died in Los Angeles. Sometimes he was credited as George D. Wallace. He had a long career which encompassed playing leading man to Broadway and starring in the cult sci-fi serial Radar Men from the Moon, and appearing in over 100 television shows and movies. In 1952, he starred in the Republic serial Radar Men from the Moon, as Commando Cody. During the filming of Forbidden Planet, Wallace was introduced to the composer Richard Rodgers, who heard him sing and cast him in the musical Pipe Dream (1955) For his performance in the 1957 musical New Girl in Town, he was nominated for the New York Critics' Circle award as best actor in a musical. His last Broadway appearance was in the short-lived baseball musical The First (1981). His prolific work on television included Hill Street Blues, Moonlighting, Cagney and Lacey and, in 2002, the role of Old Xander Harris in the "Hell's Bells" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In a travel, he suffered a fall and broken his leg, but after five weeks of the surgery, he died in Cedars Sinai Hospital.
Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni
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