Mike Wallace's career – in pictures

Mike Wallace with his then wife and co-host Buff Cobb on the CBS talk show Mike & Buff in November 1951 Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

Wallace (right) with fellow 60 Minutes correspondent Harry Reasoner (left) and creator and producer Don Hewitt (centre) at CBS's New York studios in 1968 Photograph: AP

Wallace holds on to opera singer Luciano Pavarotti during a 1968 episode of 60 Minutes
Photograph: CBS/Everett/Rex Features

Wallace reports from the 1972 Democratic national convention in Miami Beach, Florida Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

Wallace interviews composer Leonard Bernstein during a February 1980 episode of 60 Minutes Photograph: Anonymous/AP

Dr Jack Kevorkian and Mike Wallace walk through the lobby of a hotel in Livonia, Michigan, where Kevorkian was interviewed in November 1998 for 60 Minutes Photograph: Handout/Reuters

Walllace and George Clooney attend the premiere of Good Night, Good Luck on the opening night of the 43rd New York film festival in September 2005
Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex Features

Mike Wallace at the CBS studios in New York in 2001 Photograph: Peter Freed/Reuters