George Wallace (Australian comedian)
George Stevenson Wallace (born 4 June 1895 in Aberdeen, New South Wales, † October 19th 1960 in Sydney) was an Australian comedian and actor.
Life
Wallace was born into a family comedian. His grandfather " Pipeclay " Wallace was an Irish comedian, his father George Stevenson " Groncho " Wallace initially operated in various occupations, including as a painter before he became an actor in minstrel shows, he himself stood for the first time three years old with his parents on the stage. In his youth, he tried his hand at various jobs before Harry Clay's Newtown Bridge Theatre in Sydney in 1919 received an engagement as acrobatic tap dancers.
In the same year he joined here with Jack Paterson Dinks and Onkus in the comedy The Two Drunks, which quickly became the most popular piece on the Newtown Bridge Theatre. To 1924, he parted with Clay and worked for Ben Fuller. As Onkus and His Merry Company, he traveled with Marshall Crosby and Maida Jones and eight to nine other performers across Australia and New Zealand. Their programs contained musical comedies such as Harmony Row and His Royal Highness from Wallace's spring, the films were successfully than later.
The end of 1931 he was engaged by Francis W. Thring to the newly founded Efftee Film Productions. Here he made his debut the following year in the short film George Wallace - Australia's Premier Comedian, in which he performed the " Dance of the Wounded Wombat ". In the same year the musical film His Royal Highness followed. He also appeared for Thring in various revues and musicals Collits ' Inn (1933 ) and The Beloved Vagabond (1934 ) on the stage.
After the death Thrings 1936 Wallace went to Revuekompagnie Mike Connors ' Queenie and Paul, with whom he appeared in Newcastle and in New Zealand at the Victoria Theatre. After his return, he appeared in two films by Ken G. Hall: Let George Do It ( 1938) and Gone to the Dogs ( 1939).
In 1939 he joined the Tivoli Theatre in Melbourne in the Revue Business as Usual and stayed until the show Americana ( 1947), the star of the house. He collaborated with Edwin Styles and Jenny Howard, for which he wrote the song A Brown Slouch Hat and composed, which was Australia's patriotic anthem during World War II. In The Rats of Tobruk ( 1944) and Wherever She Goes (1951 ), he appeared in a cameo role.
From 1949 he was in broadcasting "the boy from Bullamakanka " in the weekly George Wallace Roadshow. 1953 brought him Harry Wren in Queenie Paul Revue Thanks for the Memory alongside stars like Jim Gerald returned to the stage. He had his last performances in Wrens show The Good Old Days ( 1956-1957 ). After that, his health deteriorated, so that his son George Leonard Wallace had to take his place in Wrens Next Show Many Happy Returns, while he himself took a few weeks at the Theatre Royal in Brisbane his son.