No, I’m not George Wallace.
Ooo, I should know that. Take a DQ.
I don’t know the first and third. As to the second, no, I’m not Henry Wallace.
No, I’m not William Windom, Wendy Williams or Walter Winchell. Way to go for the double Ws, AppallingGael! 
Jeff Pearlman just wrote a tell-all book about football star Walter Payton.
The hero of Philip Roth’s preposterous "The Plot Against America " is radio reporter Walter Winchell, the only man who dared oppose fascist President Charles Lindbergh.
Englishman Jeremy Wade (my son’s hero) is the star of the TV series “River Monsters,” on which he catches enormous fish in the Amazon, the Congo, and assorted rivers around the world.
DQ1: Real person?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: Does your Last name begin with W?
Do you check every night if all the kids in town are sleeping?
Were you a blue-faced warrior in a movie that won the Best Picture Oscar?
Did you sing several #1 hits together with your brothers, and then sire two sisters who ALSO sang a #1 hit together?
Dunno about the first and third; the second is from Avatar, I guess, but I don’t know the name. Take three DQs.
W.
Answers:
"Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town/Upstairs, downstairs, in his nightgown/Rapping at the windows, crying through the locks/“Are the children in their beds? For now it’s 8 o’clock.”
Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart” was about Scottish warrior William Wallace, whose face was painted blue in battle scenes.
Brian Wilson sang with his brothers Carl and Dennis in the Beach Boys. Two of his daughters were in Wilson Phillips, who sang the #1 hit “Hold On.”
DQ1: Are you human?
DQ2: Have you appeared in a movie?
DQ3: Is your creator American?
I just realized I could’ve answered “Sam Worthington, from Avatar,” and I would’ve been right, too!
But no matter.
W.
IQ: Did you have a secret life in a Thurber story?
Another Thurber question! No, I’m not Walter Mitty.
Oh well, so much for that idea of getting it on six clues…
IQ: Is your real first name Clerow?
IQ: Was your movie based on a TV sketch?
IQ: Was your character a grumpy ex-Vietnam vet?
!Q: Did your character like to bowl?
IQ: Are you a Best Actor winner who served as Ronald Reagan’s Best Man at his wedding to Nancy?
IQ: Did you write and direct a film narrated by a corpse?
When you weren’t working as an insurance executive, did you write poems like “The Emperor of Ice Cream”?
Was your maiden name Slaghoople?
Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today?
Dunno who this is. You get a DQ.
Dunno the first two; DQs. As to the third, no, I’m not Walter Sobchak (sp?) from The Big Lebowski.
Sorry I overlooked these!
No, I’m neither William Holden nor William Wyler (and Holden appeared in Sunset Boulevard, too).
No, I’m not Wallace (I forget his first name) the poet, or the always-hungry but impoverished Wimpy.
Miss Slaghoople sounds familiar, but I forget. Take a DQ.
You’re not Wayne Campbell from Wayne’s World.Are you
You’re not Walt Kowalski from Gran Torino.
DQ: Was your movie made in the 80’s?
DQ: Was your movie an Academy Award winner?
I’ll give you Wallace Stevens (generously) and congratulate you on J. Wellington Wimpy.
Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name was Wilma Slaghoople.
DQ: Did you originally appear in a novel?
IQ: Are you a Bond girl that also had the lead in a Godzilla movie?
Hmm. Dunno. DQ.
W.
Sir Wilfred Laurier, Canada’s seventh Prime Minister, and the first Prime Minister from a French Canadian family. (I’d have to look it up, but I think there’s some kind of first in the fact that he was knighted as well…) Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario is named for him, and his face appears on our five dollar bill. Shaking hands with Sir Wilfred Laurier inspired a paper boy in Saskatoon to eventually become Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
DQ: Was the movie in which you appear produced after 1980?
Did you cast one of the only votes in the Senate against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which got the USA into the Viet Nam War?
Do you have a butler/chef named Fritz and a full-time gardener named Theodore?
Are you a TV cop named for one of the Seven Blocks of Granite?