Royce K. Wallace[citation needed] (May 9, 1925 – November 24, 1992) was an American actress, singer and dancer who had a long, distinguished career beginning in the 1940s through the late–1980s.
In the 1960s, Wallace was a founding co-member of the Cambridge Players theatrical group, a group which included some of the distinguished black actresses such as Esther Rolle (of Good Times TV show fame), Lynn Hamilton (who starred as "Donna" on the hit NBC-TV sitcom Sanford and Son), and Helen Martin of NBC-TV's 227.
[2] Wallace later appeared mostly in guest roles on Sanford and Son, Barnaby Jones, The Paper Chase,[3] Benson, Soap, Quincy, M.E., and Roots: The Next Generations.
Wallace also appeared as Agnes, in an episode of Barnaby Jones entitled “Theater Of Fear”, alongside actress Anne Francis.
[7][citation needed] In 1960, Wallace married New York City fireman Bill Riley.