Eric Wallace

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Eric Wallace (born 16 July 1938, died 28 April 2004) was a reporter and presenter for Border Television and an independent film director in Cumbria, England. He was born in Carlisle and spent his whole life there. For twenty years he was the main anchor of Lookaround until his retirement in 1998.

1 Border Television
2 Independent film career
3 Death
4 References

[edit] Border Television

At the age of 27, Wallace left his first job at McVitie's biscuit factory to take a three-year course in Film and Television at Durham University. On graduating he joined Border Television as a reporter, where he would remain for the next 30 years. After his retirement, Wallace returned to make a number of guest appearances, until illness prevented him from doing so in 2002.

[edit] Independent film career

Whilst working for Border TV, Wallace - an ardent movie enthusiast, directed and funded several independent films including Strange Company (1972), I Can Lick Any Girl in the House (1976) and Stimmung (produced between 1980 and 1986).^[1] Wallace himself was the subject of a 1986 short film, The One and Only, produced by film students at the Royal College of Art, London.

[edit] Death

Eric Wallace died at Carlisle's Eden Valley Hospice on 28 April 2004 from cancer. He was 65 and had been married with two children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.^[2]

That night's edition of Lookaround broke the news of Wallace's death and featured an extensive tribute. Following the tribute, anchorwoman and close friend Fiona Armstrong wept openly on air.^[3]