A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is set to be unveiled Thursday honoring longtime network news correspondent and moderator Chris Wallace that will be placed next to the star of his late father, longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace.
The Wallaces will join such parent-and-child combinations on the Walk of Fame as Lloyd Bridges and his sons Beau and Jeff; Kirk Douglas and his son Michael; Judy Garland, director Vincente Minnelli and their daughter Liza Minnelli; Diane Ladd, Bruce Dern and their daughter Laura Dern; and Robert Montgomery and his daughter Elizabeth.
The Walk of Fame customarily places the stars of family members next to one another, according to Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno are set to join Wallace in speaking at the 11:30 a.m. ceremony at 6253 Hollywood Blvd., near Vine Street. Wallace told City News Service in an email he interviewed both Schwarzenegger and Leno on his CNN show, “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” “and we made special connections.”
A stretch of northbound Vine Street will be closed to accommodate the ceremony, Martinez said.
The star is the 2,820th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.
All Walk of Fame ceremonies are streamed on walkoffame.com, and can later be seen on YouTube.com/@HwdWalkofFame.
Born Oct. 12, 1947, Wallace was an assistant to Walter Chronkite at the 1964 Republican National Convention when his stepfather Bill Leonard led CBS News’ election division. After graduating from Harvard University, Wallace became a reporter with The Boston Globe, initially covering City Hall and eventually becoming a roving national correspondent.
Wallace began his television career in the early 1970s at WBBM-TV, the CBS owned-and-operated station in Chicago. He worked at NBC News from 1978-89, including six years as its chief White House correspondent, moderating “Meet the Press” and anchoring the Sunday edition of the “NBC Nightly News.”
Wallace moved to ABC in 1989, spending 14 years as chief correspondent for the news magazine “Primetime” and chief substitute anchor for “Nightline.”
Wallace worked for Fox News from 2003-21, hosting “Fox News Sunday,” participating in the coverage of nearly every major political event, and interviewing Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Wallace hosted “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” from 2022-24 and “The Chris Wallace Show,” a CNN Saturday morning panel show with reporters and commentators joining Wallace to discuss the notable stories of the week, from 2023-24.
Wallace declined to remain with CNN after his contract ended in November 2024.
Wallace is now a senior adviser for news and media investments at RedBird Capital Partners. The investment management firm is a major investor in Skydance, which recently purchased Paramount, the parent company of CBS. Wallace is advising David Ellison, the chairman and CEO of Paramount, about CBS News.