George Wallace, who plays the fake Xander from the future (real name: Stewart Burns) in Hell’s Bells, has had a varied career. He worked in the coal mines in McMechen, West Virginia when he was 13. He joined the Navy in 1936 and served during World War II. He had a small job as a singing bartender, which attracted the attention of Hollywood columnist Jimmie Fidler, who helped him get his start in show business. Wallace then starred on stage in several stage productions. In 1960 a horse fell on him and broke his back during the making of an episode Swamp Fox. It took him 7 months to recover. Wallace can be seen in Minority Report (as Chief Justice Pollard), Nurse Betty (as Grandfather Blaine), Bicentennial Man, Forces of Nature, Multiplicity, My Girl 2, The Towering Inferno, The Six Million Dollar Man, Forbidden Planet, Star Trek: The Next Generation and many other movies and TV shows. George sadly died in July 2005, aged 88.
March 7th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Don’t forget his stints as Governor of Alabama
March 8th, 2006 at 8:45 am
Although “Hell’s Bells” is a terrible episode, it’s cool that this guy was in it. This brief biography sure does make him sound pretty cool. It’s really a shame that he passed on.