Eli Wallach

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eli Wallach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, 1915-12-07

Died: 2014-06-24

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Baby Doll	Silva Vacarro	71
2	1957	The Lark	Dauphin	0
3	1958	The Lineup	Dancer	71
4	1958	The Plot to Kill Stalin	Poskrebyshev	0
5	1958	The Gift of the Magi	Narrator	0
6	1959	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Rafael	0
7	1959	I, Don Quixote	Sancho Panza / Cervantes' Manservant	0
8	1960	Lullaby	Johnny Horton	0
9	1960	Seven Thieves	Poncho	65
10	1960	The Magnificent Seven	Calvera	75
11	1961	The Misfits	Guido	69
12	1962	Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man	John	48
13	1962	How the West Was Won	Charlie Gant	70
14	1963	The Victors	Sgt. Craig	63
15	1963	Act One	Warren Stone	59
16	1964	The Moon-Spinners	Stratos	57
17	1964	Kisses for My President	Raphael Valdez Jr.	70
18	1965	Lord Jim	The General	68
19	1965	Genghis Khan	Shah of Khwarezm	59
20	1966	The Poppy Is Also a Flower	'Happy' Locarno	58
21	1966	How to Steal a Million	Davis Leland	75
22	1966	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Tuco Ramirez	85
23	1967	The Owl Who Gave a Hoot	Mr. Owl (voice)	0
24	1967	The Tiger Makes Out	Ben Harris	46
25	1968	How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life	Harry Hunter	58
26	1968	A Lovely Way to Die	Tennessee Fredericks	45
27	1968	Ace High	Cacopoulos	65
28	1969	The Brain	Frankie Scannapieco, godfather of the Italian mafia	73
29	1969	Mackenna's Gold	Ben Baker	66
30	1970	The Reason Why	Charles	0
31	1970	Zig Zag	Mario Gambretti	75
32	1970	The Adventures of Gerard	Napoleon Bonaparte	64
33	1970	The Angel Levine	Delicatessen Clerk	57
34	1970	The People Next Door	Arthur Mason	64
35	1971	Paradise Lost	Leo Gordon	100
36	1971	Romance of a Horsethief	Kifke	27
37	1971	The Typists	Paul Cunningham	0
38	1971	Don't Turn the Other Cheek	Maz Lozoya	53
39	1973	A Cold Night's Death	Frank Enari	60
40	1973	Stateline Motel	Joe	52
41	1973	Cinderella Liberty	Lynn Forshay	68
42	1974	Indict and Convict	DeWitt Foster	0
43	1974	Crazy Joe	Don Vittorio	60
44	1974	Houston, We've Got a Problem	Narrator (voice)	60
45	1975	Shoot First… Ask Questions Later	Sheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack	58
46	1975	Eye of the Cat	Cesare	45
47	1976	Independence	Benjamin Franklin	0
48	1976	Plot of Fear	Peter Struwwel	54
49	1977	The Sentinel	Detective Gatz	61
50	1977	Nasty Habits	Monsignor	55
51	1977	The Domino Principle	Gen. Reser	59
52	1977	The Deep	Adam Coffin	60
53	1978	Circle of Iron	Man-in-Oil	57
54	1978	Girlfriends	Rabbi Gold	67
55	1978	Little Italy	Don Gerolamo Giarra	60
56	1978	Movie Movie	Vince Marlow / Pop	58
57	1978	The Pirate	Ben Ezra	55
58	1979	Firepower	Sal Hyman	50
59	1979	Winter Kills	Joe Diamond	58
60	1980	Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
61	1980	The Hunter	Ritchie Blumenthal	59
62	1980	Guri		0
63	1980	Fugitive Family	Olan Vacio	0
64	1981	The Pride of Jesse Hallam	Sal Galucci	58
65	1981	The Salamander	General Leporello	57
66	1981	Skokie	Bert Silverman	60
67	1982	The Wall	Mauritzi Apt	60
68	1982	The Executioner's Song	Vern Damico	58
69	1984	Anatomy of an Illness	Dr. William Hitzig	0
70	1984	Sam's Son	Sam Orowitz	59
71	1985	Embassy	Joe Verga	0
72	1985	Murder: By Reason of Insanity	Dr. Huffman	35
73	1986	Rocket to the Moon	Mr. Prince	0
74	1986	Tough Guys	Leon B. Little	60
75	1986	Something in Common	Norman Voss	60
76	1987	Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland	Narrator (voice)	0
77	1987	Nuts	Dr. Herbert A. Morrison	63
78	1987	The Impossible Spy	Yacov	51
79	1987	Hollywood Uncensored	Self	55
80	1988	Funny	Self	0
81	1988	An Empire of Reason	Anti-Federalist Spokesman	0
82	1988	Hello Actors Studio	Self	60
83	1990	The Godfather Family: A Look Inside	Self / Don Altobello	77
84	1990	The Two Jakes	Cotton Weinberger	60
85	1990	Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret	Self	0
86	1990	The Godfather Part III	Don Altobello	74
87	1991	Coney Island	Self - Actor	60
88	1991	Terezin Diary	Narrator	0
89	1992	Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes	(voice)	0
90	1992	Article 99	Sam Abrams	61
91	1992	Legacy of Lies	Moses Resnick	60
92	1992	Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems	(voice)	0
93	1992	Mistress	George Lieberhof	54
94	1992	Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story	Bill Presser	53
95	1992	Night and the City	Peck	57
96	1992	The Donner Party	voice	68
97	1992	Lincoln	William Crook (voice)	72
98	1993	Vendetta II: The New Mafia	Frank Latella	50
99	1994	The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters	Self - Narrator (voice)	75
100	1994	Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed	Self	57
101	1994	Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess	Self	68
102	1994	It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein	Narrator	85
103	1995	Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King	Self	85
104	1995	American Cinema	Narrator	0
105	1995	Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey	Narrator	58
106	1995	Two Much	Sheldon	54
107	1996	Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen	Quote Reader	47
108	1996	The Search for Dracula	Narrator	100
109	1996	Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome	Self	0
110	1996	Honey Sweet Love	Don Siro	0
111	1996	O. Henry's Christmas	Behrman ("The Last Leaf")	0
112	1996	The Associate	Donald Fallon	63
113	1997	Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years	Self	72
114	1997	The Trial of Adolf Eichmann	Pinchas Freudiger / David Ben-Gurion (voices)	66
115	1998	Naked City: Justice with a Bullet	Deluca	37
116	2000	The Bookfair Murders	Erich Schmidt	60
117	2000	Keeping the Faith	Rabbi Ben Lewis	61
118	2000	Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'	Self	68
119	2000	Uninvited	Alan Strasser	60
120	2000	Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows	Self	71
121	2002	Monday Night Mayhem	Leonard Goldenson	53
122	2002	Cinerama Adventure	Self	76
123	2002	Making 'The Misfits'	Self	0
124	2003	Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King	Self / Narrator	0
125	2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There	Self	70
126	2003	The Education of Gore Vidal	Self	60
127	2003	Rita	Self	85
128	2003	Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip	Other Voices (voice)	73
129	2003	Mystic River	Mr. Loonie (uncredited)	77
130	2004	Por un puñado de sueños	Self - Interviewee	0
131	2004	Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'	Self	0
132	2004	Leone's West	Self	70
133	2004	King of the Corner	Sol Spivak	57
134	2004	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Other Voices (voice)	71
135	2004	The Easter Egg Adventure	Narrator (voice)	55
136	2005	The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation	Father	63
137	2005	James Dean: Sense Memories	Self	0
138	2005	Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool	Self	59
139	2005	A Taste Of Jupiter		42
140	2006	The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'	Self	0
141	2006	Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things	Self	96
142	2006	Baby Doll: See No Evil	Self	0
143	2006	The Real James Dean	Self	0
144	2006	The Hoax	Noah Dietrich	63
145	2006	The Holiday	Arthur	71
146	2007	Brando	Self	68
147	2007	Mama's Boy	Seymour Warburton	45
148	2008	Vote and Die: Liszt for President	Joe Nightingale	0
149	2008	Il falso bugiardo	Self (archive footage)	0
150	2008	New York, I Love You	Abe	59
151	2009	The Toe Tactic	Maestro	50
152	2010	The Ghost Writer	Old man	68
153	2010	Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber	Mordechai Rossman (voice)	80
154	2010	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps	Julie Steinhardt	61
155	2014	Showing Up	Self	92
156	2015	The Train	Andre	70
157	2022	Rat Pack	Self (archive footage)	90

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	66
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		60
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Nacho	60
4	1948	Studio One	Ozep	47
5	1948	Studio One	Peter Hendon	47
6	1949	Lights Out	Giovanni	53
7	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	68
8	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Dauphin	87
9	1952	Omnibus		60
10	1954	Climax!	Albert Anastasia	30
11	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	46
12	1956	Playhouse 90	Rafael	75
13	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	65
14	1957	Suspicion		59
15	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Simon	58
16	1958	Naked City	Det. Peter Bane	55
17	1958	Naked City	Georgie	55
18	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse	Raymond Perez	53
19	1959	The David Susskind Show	Self	50
20	1960	Outlaws		62
21	1961	The Dick Powell Show	Manny Jacobs	50
22	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
23	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	56
24	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
25	1966	Batman	Mister Freeze	73
26	1966	CBS Playhouse	Douglas Lambert	70
27	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self	65
28	1971	Great Performances	Self	54
29	1973	Kojak	Lee Curtin	70
30	1977	Seventh Avenue	Gus Farber	50
31	1977	The Hollywood Greats	Self	35
32	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Gerry Williams	67
33	1982	American Playhouse	Mr. Prince	60
34	1982	Wogan	Self	45
35	1982	The Executioner's Song	Vern Damico	0
36	1983	Reading Rainbow	Himself - Narrator (voice)	84
37	1984	Highway to Heaven	Timothy Charles	74
38	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Salvatore Gambini	75
39	1985	Christopher Columbus	Padre Fernando De Talavera	65
40	1985	Our Family Honor	Vincent Danzig	50
41	1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Yosef Kandinsky	73
42	1990	Law & Order	Simon Vilanis	74
43	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	71
44	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	74
45	1994	Baseball	Various (voice)	74
46	1994	Baseball	(voice)	74
47	1994	ER	Mr. Langston	78
48	1996	The West	Self	84
49	2001	The Job	Mr. Weiss	66
50	2003	Veritas: The Quest	Rabbi	65
51	2003	Whoopi	Norman	87
52	2004	Stroker and Hoop	Narrator (voice)	58
53	2006	Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	Eli Weinraub	74
54	2008	The War	Narrator (voice)	81