Eli Wallach
Eli Herschel Wallach 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.
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PHOTOS
TV Series
The Job
6.61
Inside the Actors Studio
7.535
The Dick Powell Show
5.5
Law & Order
7.4
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
7.3
Batman
7.293
Tales of the Unexpected
6.711
Highway to Heaven
7.357
The Merv Griffin Show
6.222
Naked City
5.5
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.2
The David Susskind Show
5
Kojak
7.004
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.191
Veritas: The Quest
6.5
Outlaws
6.2
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
5.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
6.5
Climax!
3.273
The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
Our Family Honor
7.5
CBS Playhouse
7
Lights Out
5.3
The Hollywood Greats
3.5
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
The West
8.389
Naked City
5.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.459
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Reading Rainbow
8.333
Studio One
5
Studio One
5
The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
The War
8.049
Seventh Avenue
5
Christopher Columbus
6.5
Wogan
4.5
Stroker and Hoop
5.857
What's My Line?
6.9
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
7
Baseball
7.3
Playhouse 90
7.6
ER
7.824
Tony Awards
5.917
American Playhouse
6.25
The Executioner's Song
0
Whoopi
8.7
Suspicion
5.875
Great Performances
5.5
Shirley Temple's Storybook
6.2
Omnibus
6
Baseball
7.3
Movies
The Godfather Part III
7.418
Mystic River
7.746
The Magnificent Seven
7.509
For Whom the Bell Tolls
0
The Holiday
7.093
How to Steal a Million
7.494
The Victors
6.3
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
8.5
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
5.7
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
8.5
Genghis Khan
5.8
The Deep
6.033
Tough Guys
6
Keeping the Faith
6.1
The Associate
6.3
The Hunter
5.9
The Misfits
6.959
Lord Jim
6.8
The Ghost Writer
6.824
Article 99
6.083
Vendetta II: The New Mafia
5
Circle of Iron
5.7
Ace High
6.5
The Lineup
7.103
How the West Was Won
6.982
The Domino Principle
5.886
The Two Jakes
5.979
A Taste Of Jupiter
4.2
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
6
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
6.084
Mama's Boy
4.534
Baby Doll
7.079
Nuts
6.3
Winter Kills
5.882
Night and the City
5.7
The Moon-Spinners
5.769
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
6.313
Plot of Fear
5.4
The Gift of the Magi
0
Seven Thieves
6.5
Two Much
5.398
The Impossible Spy
5.1
Firepower
4.76
Funny
0
Mackenna's Gold
6.6
Rocket to the Moon
0
The Sentinel
6.1
Hollywood Uncensored
5.5
The Executioner's Song
5.817
Crazy Joe
6
Mistress
5.462
Guri
0
The Lark
0
Zig Zag
7.5
Uninvited
3.5
Cinderella Liberty
6.8
Movie Movie
5.8
Shoot First… Ask Questions Later
5.8
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
0
The Easter Egg Adventure
5.5
A Lovely Way to Die
4.5
Sam's Son
5.9
A Cold Night's Death
6
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7
The Toe Tactic
4
The People Next Door
6.088
The Donner Party
6.8
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
8
Girlfriends
6.712
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
4.8
Nasty Habits
4.6
Houston, We've Got a Problem
6
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
5.8
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
5.8
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
5.3
Romance of a Horsethief
2.7
Monday Night Mayhem
5.3
Act One
5.9
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
5.8
Kisses for My President
7
Cinerama Adventure
7.636
The Adventures of Gerard
6.071
The Tiger Makes Out
4.6
Showing Up
9.2
Skokie
6
Hello Actors Studio
6
The Angel Levine
5.7
The Reason Why
0
The Brain
7.302
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
0
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
0
Anatomy of an Illness
0
The Salamander
5.5
Stateline Motel
5.3
Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'
0
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
3.7
Eye of the Cat
4.5
New York, I Love You
5.952
The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'
0
Rat Pack
9
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
8.5
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
0
The Education of Gore Vidal
6
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
3.5
Paradise Lost
10
Embassy
2
The Plot to Kill Stalin
0
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
0
James Dean: Sense Memories
0
Vote and Die: Liszt for President
1
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
4.7
Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland
0
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
7.1
Legacy of Lies
6
The Pirate
4.167
Brando
6.8
Little Italy
6.1
An Empire of Reason
0
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
7.707
Coney Island
6
The Bookfair Murders
4.333
The Train
7
Terezin Diary
0
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
5.25
The Hoax
6.3
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
7.3
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
6.8
I, Don Quixote
0
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
6.8
Indict and Convict
0
Rita
8.5
Honey Sweet Love
0
The Search for Dracula
10
The Pride of Jesse Hallam
5
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
9.6
O. Henry's Christmas
0
Fugitive Family
0
Leone's West
7
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
7.5
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
7.1
The Typists
0
Lullaby
0
Making 'The Misfits'
0
Il falso bugiardo
0
The Real James Dean
0
Por un puñado de sueños
0
The Wall
5.75
Something in Common
6
American Cinema
0
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
7.2
Baby Doll: See No Evil
0
Lincoln
6.8
King of the Corner
5.7
Independence
0
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
5.833
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
0
The Owl Who Gave a Hoot
0
James Dean: A Portrait
0
In the Name of Democracy
0