Curiosidades

Father, with Jane Eagar, of daughter Rebecca De Mornay.

Memorial service was held at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California with Dr.'Robert H. Schuller' presiding over the service.

Hot Seat with Wally George (1983) was broadcast in the Los Angeles area on Channel 56 KDOC-TV which at the time was owned by conservative singer Pat Boone.

His mother, Eugenia Clinchard, was a child actress, of German and French ancestry. His father, Walter George Pearch, was an English sailor.

Daughter from marriage to Janise George, named Holly

Interred at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills, California, in a private graveside service.

Wally first gained notoriety as the co-host of former Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty's show. Yorty was defeated for re-election in 1973 and, shortly thereafter, he began a once-a-week talk show on Channel 13 KCOP-TV in Los Angeles. Supposedly, Wally approached Mayor Sam (Yorty's nickname) about hosting a talk show. The show ran for about 5-6 years. Then, in 1982, Wally began his Hot Seat with Wally George (1983) show.

Ring Announcer for Pacific Wrestling Alliance in 1988.

First gained notoriety as the host of an extreme right-wing TV talk show in Orange County, California, who would have assorted "liberals, perverts and left-wing lunatics" on his show and insult them, berate them and then throw them off. He gained even more notoriety when it became known that many of the "guests" on his show were actors who were hired by George and his staff to play the assorted "loonies" (Rhonda Shear, before she became host of USA Up All Night (1989), was one of them). In one well-known incident, a young woman, who owned an agency that sent strippers to deliver telegrams, appeared on his show; he hurled insults and abuse at her, called her a "prostitute" and a "tramp" and threw her off the show. It later turned out that he had asked her for a date before the show started and she turned him down.

While he is often characterized as being a "Conservative Talk Show Host & Commentator", his true political attitudes were nothing like that of the persona that he portrayed on the HOT SEAT. Although he was almost assuredly a conservative, his act as host of the HOT SEAT show was a sort of spoof of a Totalitarian, Fascist dictator and demagogue .

Claimed that his actress daughter Rebecca DeMornay was influenced by her friend Harry Dean Stanton to have nothing to do with her father. On the other side, he said he got along with Tom Cruise, who starred with and shortly dated Rebecca after Risky Business.

Frequented Los Angeles Dodger games.

On Hot Seat, behind Wally's desk was a picture of the Columbia space shuttle taking off; to the left behind the guests chairs hung a picture of John Wayne.

A comparably mellow and likable David Kennedy was Wally George's co-host on Hot Seat until the final years when a tall mustached guy replaced him. But David, also the show's producer, was always a fan-favorite, and whenever he made a point, Wally lead his audience into cheering "David! David!" in the fashion they'd usually cheer "Wally! Wally!".