George Wallace
Biography
Born in Atlanta, George Wallace is an American comedian and actor who moved to New York City after college to pursue comedy, supporting himself as an advertising salesman before a client opened a comedy club and its owner gave him a chance to perform stand-up. He first took the stage in 1977 as The Right Reverend Dr. George Wallace, delivering an improvised routine, then moved to the West Coast in 1978 and became a regular at The Comedy Store. He wrote for The Redd Foxx Show for a year before returning to stand-up, toured as an opening act for Smokey Robinson, Donna Summer, Diana Ross and George Benson, and was named Best Male Standup Comedian at the 1995 American Comedy Awards. Acting credits include 3 Strikes (2000), The Ladykillers (2004) as Sheriff Wyner, A Rage in Harlem (1991), The Last Laugh (2019), and Hubie Halloween (2020) as Mayor Benson. He appeared on The Tonight Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
74years old
Turns 75 on July 21in 272 days
- Born Atlanta
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- George Henry Wallace (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 15
- Career span
- 40 years1980 to 2020
Genres
- Comedy93%, 14 films
- Crime20%, 3 films
- Action7%, 1 film
- Animation7%, 1 film
- Documentary7%, 1 film
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First role
Wallace's first time on stage as a stand-up came in 1977, when he wore a preacher's robe and performed as The Right Reverend Dr. George Wallace with a completely improvised routine.
A change of course
Producers from The Redd Foxx Show saw one of Wallace's performances and invited him to write for the series. He wrote for just one year before going back to the stage.
George Wallace movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
DJ Pooh directed two of these films. Faizon Love appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Faizon Love's page
Robert Klein's page
Jerry Seinfeld's page
Reynaldo Rey's page
Shawn Fonteno's page
All films by DJ Pooh
Box office
What George Wallace's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$113 million
7 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 7 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 4 never in cinemas; 2 figure not found.
- 7Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 4Never in cinemas
- 2Figure not found
Highest grossing
The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$77M67.6% of the total
- 2$10M9.2% of the total
- 3$9.0M7.9% of the total
- 4$8.4M7.4% of the total
- 5$6.1M5.4% of the total
- 6$2.7M2.4% of the total
- 7$49K0.0% of the total
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