On the morning of December 25, Beijing time, Hollywood movie fans paid attention to the release of the Christmas schedule, but a sad news came from the reporter Mike Barnes. Tommy Lee Wallace, a well-known Hollywood filmmaker, producer and veteran actor who was predicted by the audience to be the "mayor's professional household", died at the age of 90. Warner's current creative director, Ann Sarnoff, also sent a tribute at the first time: "Tommy is an elder and a cornerstone of the film field, and the actors who work with him respect him without exception." According to the director, Lee Wallace also cared about the filming of "Batman" starring Robert Pattinson before his death, because among the few roles he played, the Batman series can be regarded as a series he starred in. While his main job was behind-the-scenes creations, it wasn't enough that he, like Stan Lee, liked cameos in the superhero series, and their imaginations for the film didn't diminish with age.
Although Lee Wallace didn't appear in many films, the Brooklyn-based director, who played mayor in many films, also had a long acting career on the Broadway stage when he was young. More famous is that he made a cameo appearance in "Ride the Subway" as a mayor named McLaren, although his role is not much, this role is a supporting role, but his portrayal of the mayor's role is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, reflecting the social situation at that time. Later, in "Hot Rock", "Happy Woman" and "Little Confused Soldier", he played the role of mayor, because he looked like former New York Mayor Ed Koch, and was known as the "mayor professional". However, in the filming work, the actors who have worked with him recall that Lee Wallace will not be as high as the role he plays, and is good at listening to opinions from all sides in his writing and directing works.
However, on this Christmas Eve, Lee Wallace's family announced the death of the actor who made a cameo appearance in the "Ride the Underground" and the batman series with Tim Burton, and that the last place of his life was in New York. For some new fans, Lee Wallace may not be too famous, but he is a regular at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and belongs to a crossover filmmaker. His acting career began in the mid-1960s, when he appeared in 1981 in a Yale University play "Uncle Wanya" and played against "Oscar-winning actress" Glenn Cross. When Grandma Glenn learned of the death of the co-actor, she also sent condolences to his family through her agent. I found that Lee Wallace seemed to prefer musicals—eight works on Broadway faded into script writing.
But it is understandable that, after all, Lee Wallace's career as a filmmaker began precisely from the late golden age of Hollywood - in the late 60s, knowing that "One Teaspoon Every Four Hours", he encountered the box office depression period of the American film industry, and he naturally devoted more energy to theatrical creation. His creation in Leonard Nimoy's "The Apple Can't Fall" in 1996 became the finale of his Broadway stage, after all, in the 1990s Hollywood entered the silver age, the box office re-entered the spring, and he certainly had to re-devote himself to the big screen. Growing up on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Lee Wallace was unable to attend professional film and television schools because of his time. He graduated from Seward Park High School and was later admitted to New York University, where he was exposed to formal acting during his service in the U.S. Army and studied acting with his teacher, Michael Howard, for seven years.
Many consider the "mayor's professional" to bear striking resemblance to the charismatic Ed Koch, who was mayor of New York City in the late '70s and '80s, and the two were also good friends in private. It is also based on lee Wallace Burton's choice of him as the mayor of Gotham City in the '89 version of "Batman", it can be said that in his acting career, the Batman series is the pinnacle of the work, so he will care about the shooting of the new version of "Batman". Warner CEO Claire also said that if Lee Wallace is in good health, he will be invited to play the mayor of Gotham City in Robert Pattinson's version of Batman. In fact, four years before Koch was elected, Wallace played an embattled Mayor of New York in Joseph Sargent's mystery film Ride the Underground.
The big director also appeared in the TV shows of Koghak and Luigert, and he also focused on the American drama market before his death, and "Ryan's Hope" and other less popular beauty. His wife, who has been married for 45 years, announced his death, and it was Marilyn Chris, the heroine of "Live Forever", and their son Paul also confirmed this fact on social platforms.