Biography
Ian Bryce Wallace OBE (10 July 1919 β 12 October 2009) was an English bass-baritone opera and concert singer, actor and broadcaster of Scottish extraction.
His family intended him for a career in the law, but he was attracted to the stage. Originally an actor in non-musical plays, he was persuaded to try opera and made an immediate success. He played a range of buffo parts in operas, at Glyndebourne and internationally. Wallace maintained a simultaneous career in revue, straight theatre, and broadcasting. He appeared in pantomime and at the Royal Variety Performance. As a broadcaster, he was a long-time panellist on the BBC radio panel game My Music, and he presented a television series of introductions to operas in the 1960s, as well as appearing in light entertainment shows singing a range of songs from ballads to comedy numbers. He performed his one-man show for many years. Flanders and Swann wrote several songs for him, and their best-known novelty song, "The Hippopotamus", became indelibly associated with him.
Filmography
all 9
Movies 7
TV Shows 2
Porterhouse Blue (1987)
Plenty (1985)
Dentist in the Chair (1960)
Tom Thumb (1958)
The Adventures of William Tell (1958)
The Adventures of Mr. Pastry (1958)
Noose for a Lady (1953)
Wide Boy (1952)
State Secret (1950)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1919-07-10
Deathday2009-10-12 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire
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