Michael Wallis
Michael Wallis (born October 7, 1945) is an American journalist, popular historian, author and speaker. He has written seventeen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road, about the historic highway U.S. His work has also been published extensively in magazines and newspapers, including Time, Life, People, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Wallis is also the voice of Sheriff in the Disney/Pixar franchise Cars.
Michael Wallis
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- Name
- Michael Wallis
- Born
- 7 October 1945
- Birthplace
- St.
- Occupation
- * Journalist
- Education
- Western Military Academy
- Spouse
- Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis
- Nationality
- United States
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Michael Wallis (born October 7, 1945) is an American journalist, popular historian, author and speaker. He has written seventeen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road, about the historic highway U.S. His work has also been published extensively in magazines and newspapers, including Time, Life, People, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Wallis is also the voice of Sheriff in the Disney/Pixar franchise Cars.
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• Name — Michael Wallis • Born — 7 October 1945 • Birthplace — St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. • Occupation — * Journalist • popular historian • author • speaker • Education — Western Military Academy • Alma Mater — University of Missouri • Years Active — 1965–present • Spouse — Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis • Website — http: www.michaelwallis.com/
Other work
Other work
Wallis also provided the voice of Sheriff in the Disney·Pixar Cars franchise.
Personal life
Personal life
Wallis was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois, in 1963. He later attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, and moved to Miami, Florida, in 1978, where he worked for Times Caribbean Bureau. He currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his wife, Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis.
Television
Television
• Cars Toons (2008-2013, 2 episodes) as Sheriff (voice) • Cruisin' Route 66 with Michael Wallis 2007 (Season 1, 12–24 minute episodes) with updates from the 1994 show about Route 66 the Mother Road. • Cars: Lightning Racers (2027, Upcoming series) as Sheriff (voice)
Video games
Video games
• Cars (2006) as Sheriff (voice) • Cars Mater-National Championship (2007) as Sheriff (voice) • Cars Race-O-Rama (2009) as Sheriff (voice) • Cars 2: The Video Game (2011) as Sheriff (voice) • Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure (2012) as Sheriff (voice)
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• Radiator Springs Racers (2012) as Sheriff
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Film
• American Traditions: A Journey Down Route 66 (1994, documentary) host and guide (commentator) • Cars (2006) as Sheriff (voice) • Mater and the Ghostlight (2006, video short) as Sheriff (voice) • Cars 2 (2011) as Sheriff (voice) • Voices of History (2014, short) as Narrator (voice) • Cars 3 (2017) as Sheriff (voice)
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- “Michael Wallis”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards and honors
Wallis has received the John Steinbeck Award, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, the Will Rogers Spirit Award, and the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall & Western Heritage Museum. He has been inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame, Writers Hall of Fame of America, and the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame, and was the first inductee into the Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame. • Illustration — Michael Wallis with Joy Harjo in 2010 Wallis was interviewed by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) for After Words on Book TV, 29 April 2007, discussing his latest book, Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride.
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