Name Michael Wallis Role Voice actor | Spouse Suzanne Wallis | |
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Movies Cars, Cars 2, Mater and the Ghostlight, Tokyo Mater Awards Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Contemporary Books Route 66 - 75th Annivers, Billy the Kid, Pretty Boy, The real wild west, Mankiller Similar People Joe Ranft, John Lasseter, Wilma Mankiller, Dan Scanlon, Brad Lewis | ||
Michael wallis voice of sheriff at the cars land grand opening at dca
Michael Wallis (born October 7, 1945) is an American journalist, popular historian, author, speaker and voice actor. He has written seventeen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road, about the historic highway U.S. Route 66. His work has also been published extensively in magazines and newspapers, including Time, Life, People, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
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- Michael wallis voice of sheriff at the cars land grand opening at dca
- Michael Wallis Voice of the Heartland
- Awards and honors
- Voice acting
- Personal life
- Theme park attractions
- Filmography
- References
Michael Wallis--Voice of the Heartland
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.
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.
Voice acting
Wallis also provided the voice of Sheriff in the Disney·Pixar Cars franchise as well as in the Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode "Tokyo Mater".
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 Time's Caribbean Bureau. He currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his wife, Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis.