Eli Wallach

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Biography

Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Other roles include his portrayal of Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III, Calvera in The Magnificent Seven, and Arthur Abbott in The Holiday. Wallach has received BAFTA Awards, Tony Awards and Emmy Awards for his work. Wallach also has a cameo as a liquor store owner in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River. Wallach received an Honorary Academy Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards, presented on November 13, 2010.

Known For

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Tuco Ramirez

Mystic River

Mr. Loonie (uncredited)

The Godfather Part III

Don Altobello

The Holiday

Arthur Abbott

The Ghost Writer

Old man

The Magnificent Seven

Calvera

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Julie Steinhardt

Mr. Langston

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2022	Rat Pack MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2015	The Train MOVIE	Andre
2014	Showing Up MOVIE	Self
2010	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps MOVIE	Julie Steinhardt
2010	Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber MOVIE	Mordechai Rossman (voice)
2010	The Ghost Writer MOVIE	Old man
2009	Nurse Jackie TV	Bernard Zimberg
2009	In the Name of Democracy MOVIE	Narrator
2009	The Toe Tactic MOVIE	Maestro
2008	New York, I Love You MOVIE	Abe
2008	Il falso bugiardo MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2008	Vote and Die: Liszt for President MOVIE	Joe Nightingale
2007	Mama's Boy MOVIE	Seymour Warburton
2007	The War TV	Narrator (voice)
2007	Brando MOVIE	Self
2006	The Holiday MOVIE	Arthur Abbott
2006	The Hoax MOVIE	Noah Dietrich
2006	Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip TV	Eli Weinraub
2006	The Real James Dean MOVIE	Self
2006	Baby Doll: See No Evil MOVIE	Self
2006	Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things MOVIE	Self
2006	The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven' MOVIE	Self
2005	A Taste Of Jupiter MOVIE	Arturo
2005	Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool MOVIE	Self
2005	James Dean: Sense Memories MOVIE	Self
2005	The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation MOVIE	Father
2004	The Easter Egg Adventure MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2004	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson MOVIE	Other Voices (voice)
2004	Stroker and Hoop TV	Narrator (voice)
2004	King of the Corner MOVIE	Sol Spivak
2004	Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly' MOVIE	Self
2004	Leone's West MOVIE	Self
2004	Por un puñado de sueños MOVIE	Self - Interviewee
2003	Mystic River MOVIE	Mr. Loonie (uncredited)
2003	Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip MOVIE	Other Voices (voice)
2003	Rita MOVIE	Self
2003	Whoopi TV	Norman
2003	The Education of Gore Vidal MOVIE	Self
2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There MOVIE	Self
2003	Veritas: The Quest TV	Rabbi
2003	Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King MOVIE	Self / Narrator
2002	Making 'The Misfits' MOVIE	Self
2002	Cinerama Adventure MOVIE	Self
2002	Monday Night Mayhem MOVIE	Leonard Goldenson
2001	The Job TV	Mr. Weiss
2000	Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows MOVIE	Self
2000	Uninvited MOVIE	Alan Strasser
2000	Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' MOVIE	Self
2000	Keeping the Faith MOVIE	Rabbi Ben Lewis
2000	The Bookfair Murders MOVIE	Erich Schmidt
1998	Naked City: Justice with a Bullet MOVIE	Deluca
1997	The Trial of Adolf Eichmann MOVIE	Pinchas Freudiger / David Ben-Gurion (voices)
1997	Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years MOVIE	Self
1996	The Associate MOVIE	Donald Fallon
1996	The West TV	Self
1996	O. Henry's Christmas MOVIE	Behrman ("The Last Leaf")
1996	Honey Sweet Love MOVIE	Don Siro
1996	Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome MOVIE	Self
1996	The Search for Dracula MOVIE	Narrator
1995	Two Much MOVIE	Sheldon
1995	James Dean: A Portrait MOVIE	Self
1995	Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey MOVIE	Narrator
1995	Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King MOVIE	Self
1994	It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein MOVIE	Narrator
1994	Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess MOVIE	Self
1994	ER TV	Mr. Langston
1994	Baseball TV	Various (voice)
1994	Baseball TV	(voice)
1994	Inside the Actors Studio TV	Self
1994	Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed MOVIE	Self
1994	The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters MOVIE	Self - Narrator (voice)
1993	Vendetta II: The New Mafia MOVIE	Frank Latella
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien TV	Self - Guest
1992	Lincoln MOVIE	William Crook (voice)
1992	The Donner Party MOVIE	voice
1992	Night and the City MOVIE	Peck
1992	Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story MOVIE	Bill Presser
1992	Mistress MOVIE	George Lieberhof
1992	Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems MOVIE	(voice)
1992	Legacy of Lies MOVIE	Moses Resnick
1992	Article 99 MOVIE	Sam Abrams
1992	Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes MOVIE	(voice)
1991	Terezin Diary MOVIE	Narrator
1991	Coney Island MOVIE	Self - Actor
1990	The Godfather Part III MOVIE	Don Altobello
1990	Law & Order TV	Simon Vilanis
1990	Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret MOVIE	Self
1990	The Two Jakes MOVIE	Cotton Weinberger
1990	The Godfather Family: A Look Inside MOVIE	Self / Don Altobello
1988	Hello Actors Studio MOVIE	Self
1988	An Empire of Reason MOVIE	Anti-Federalist Spokesman
1988	Funny MOVIE	Self
1987	Hollywood Uncensored MOVIE	Self
1987	The Impossible Spy MOVIE	Yacov
1987	Nuts MOVIE	Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
1987	Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1986	Something in Common MOVIE	Norman Voss
1986	Worlds Beyond TV	Charles Burgess
1986	Tough Guys MOVIE	Leon B. Little
1986	Rocket to the Moon MOVIE	Mr. Prince
1985	Murder: By Reason of Insanity MOVIE	Dr. Huffman
1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV	Yosef Kandinsky
1985	Our Family Honor TV	Vincent Danzig
1985	Embassy MOVIE	Joe Verga
1985	Christopher Columbus TV	Padre Fernando De Talavera
1984	Murder, She Wrote TV	Salvatore Gambini
1984	Highway to Heaven TV	Timothy Charles
1984	Sam's Son MOVIE	Sam Orowitz
1984	Anatomy of an Illness MOVIE	Dr. William Hitzig
1983	Reading Rainbow TV	Self - Narrator (voice)
1982	The Executioner's Song TV	Vern Damico
1982	The Executioner's Song MOVIE	Vern Damico
1982	Wogan TV	Self
1982	The Wall MOVIE	Mauritzi Apt
1982	American Playhouse TV	Mr. Prince
1981	Skokie MOVIE	Bert Silverman
1981	The Salamander MOVIE	General Leporello
1981	The Pride of Jesse Hallam MOVIE	Sal Galucci
1980	Fugitive Family MOVIE	Olan Vacio
1980	Guri MOVIE	Self
1980	The Hunter MOVIE	Ritchie Blumenthal
1980	Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush MOVIE	Self - Narrator (voice)
1979	Winter Kills MOVIE	Joe Diamond
1979	Firepower MOVIE	Sal Hyman
1979	Tales of the Unexpected TV	Gerry Williams
1978	The Pirate MOVIE	Ben Ezra
1978	Movie Movie MOVIE	Vince Marlow / Pop
1978	Little Italy MOVIE	Don Gerolamo Giarra
1978	Girlfriends MOVIE	Rabbi Gold
1978	Circle of Iron MOVIE	Man-in-Oil
1977	The Pirate TV	Ben Ezra
1977	The Hollywood Greats TV	Self
1977	The Deep MOVIE	Adam Coffin
1977	The Domino Principle MOVIE	Gen. Reser
1977	Seventh Avenue TV	Gus Farber
1977	Nasty Habits MOVIE	Monsignor
1977	The Sentinel MOVIE	Detective Gatz
1976	Plot of Fear MOVIE	Peter Struwwel
1976	Independence MOVIE	Benjamin Franklin
1975	Eye of the Cat MOVIE	Cesare
1975	Shoot First… Ask Questions Later MOVIE	Sheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack
1974	Houston, We've Got a Problem MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1974	Crazy Joe MOVIE	Don Vittorio
1974	Indict and Convict MOVIE	DeWitt Foster
1973	Cinderella Liberty MOVIE	Lynn Forshay
1973	Kojak TV	Lee Curtin
1973	Stateline Motel MOVIE	Joe
1973	A Cold Night's Death MOVIE	Frank Enari
1971	Don't Turn the Other Cheek MOVIE	Maz Lozoya
1971	The Typists MOVIE	Paul Cunningham
1971	Romance of a Horsethief MOVIE	Kifke
1971	Paradise Lost MOVIE	Leo Gordon
1971	Great Performances TV	Self
1970	The People Next Door MOVIE	Arthur Mason
1970	The Angel Levine MOVIE	Delicatessen Clerk
1970	The Adventures of Gerard MOVIE	Napoleon Bonaparte
1970	Zig Zag MOVIE	Mario Gambretti
1970	The Reason Why MOVIE	Charles
1969	Mackenna's Gold MOVIE	Ben Baker
1969	The Brain MOVIE	Frankie Scannapieco, godfather of the Italian mafia
1968	Ace High MOVIE	Cacopoulos
1968	A Lovely Way to Die MOVIE	Tennessee Fredericks
1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In TV	Self
1968	How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life MOVIE	Harry Hunter
1967	The Tiger Makes Out MOVIE	Ben Harris
1967	The Owl Who Gave a Hoot MOVIE	Mr. Owl (voice)
1966	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly MOVIE	Tuco Ramirez
1966	CBS Playhouse TV	Douglas Lambert
1966	How to Steal a Million MOVIE	Davis Leland
1966	The Poppy Is Also a Flower MOVIE	'Happy' Locarno
1966	Batman TV	Mister Freeze
1965	Genghis Khan MOVIE	Shah of Khwarezm
1965	Lord Jim MOVIE	The General
1964	Kisses for My President MOVIE	Raphael Valdez Jr.
1964	The Moon-Spinners MOVIE	Stratos
1963	Act One MOVIE	Warren Stone
1963	The Victors MOVIE	Sgt. Craig
1962	How the West Was Won MOVIE	Charlie Gant
1962	The Merv Griffin Show TV	Self
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV	Self
1962	Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man MOVIE	John
1961	The Mike Douglas Show TV	Self
1961	The Dick Powell Show TV	Manny Jacobs
1961	The Misfits MOVIE	Guido
1960	The Magnificent Seven MOVIE	Calvera
1960	Outlaws TV	Self
1960	Seven Thieves MOVIE	Poncho
1960	Lullaby MOVIE	Johnny Horton
1959	I, Don Quixote MOVIE	Sancho Panza / Cervantes' Manservant
1959	For Whom the Bell Tolls MOVIE	Rafael
1959	The David Susskind Show TV	Self
1958	The Gift of the Magi MOVIE	Narrator
1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse TV	Raymond Perez
1958	Naked City TV	Det. Peter Bane
1958	Naked City TV	Georgie
1958	The Plot to Kill Stalin MOVIE	Poskrebyshev
1958	The Lineup MOVIE	Dancer
1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook TV	Simon
1957	Suspicion TV	Self
1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar TV	Self
1957	The Lark MOVIE	Dauphin
1956	Baby Doll MOVIE	Silva Vacarro
1956	Playhouse 90 TV	Rafael
1956	Tony Awards TV	Self - Presenter
1954	Climax! TV	Albert Anastasia
1952	Omnibus TV	Self
1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame TV	Dauphin
1950	What's My Line? TV	Self - Mystery Guest
1949	Lights Out TV	Giovanni
1948	Studio One TV	Ozep
1948	Studio One TV	Peter Hendon
1948	The Philco Television Playhouse TV	Self
1948	The Philco Television Playhouse TV	Nacho
1948	The Ed Sullivan Show TV	Self
	The Yidishe Gauchos MOVIE	Narrator

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