
Eli Wallach
Acting
1915-12-07 - Present
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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The Good, the Bad and the UglyasTuco Ramirez

The Godfather Part IIIasDon Altobello

The Magnificent SevenasCalvera

Mystic RiverasMr. Loonie (uncredited)

The HolidayasArthur

New York, I Love YouasAbe

Wall Street: Money Never SleepsasJulie Steinhardt

The Ghost WriterasOld man

The MisfitsasGuido

Mackenna's GoldasBen Baker

How the West Was WonasCharlie Gant

How to Steal a MillionasDavis Leland

Keeping the FaithasRabbi Ben Lewis

The Two JakesasCotton Weinberger

Mama's BoyasSeymour Warburton

The DeepasAdam Coffin

The SentinelasDetective Gatz

Tough GuysasLeon B. Little

A Cold Night's DeathasFrank Enari

Ace HighasCacopoulos

The HunterasRitchie Blumenthal

The HoaxasNoah Dietrich

The AssociateasDonald Fallon

The Godfather Family: A Look InsideasSelf / Don Altobello

Hollywood UncensoredasSelf

NutsasDr. Herbert A. Morrison

Baby DollasSilva Vacarro

FirepowerasSal Hyman

Genghis KhanasShah of Khwarezm

The Impossible SpyasYacov

The Pride of Jesse HallamasSal Galucci

Article 99asSam Abrams

The Moon-SpinnersasStratos

Circle of IronasMan-in-Oil

The BrainasFrankie Scannapieco, godfather of the Italian mafia

The Domino PrincipleasGen. Reser

Night and the CityasPeck

Lord JimasThe General

A Taste Of JupiterasArturo

The VictorsasSgt. Craig

The Poppy Is Also a Floweras'Happy' Locarno

The SalamanderasGeneral Leporello

Two MuchasSheldon

Winter KillsasJoe Diamond

James Dean: A PortraitasSelf

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your LifeasHarry Hunter

Little ItalyasDon Gerolamo Giarra

BrandoasSelf

Don't Turn the Other CheekasMaz Lozoya

Murder: By Reason of InsanityasDr. Huffman

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonasOther Voices (voice)

MistressasGeorge Lieberhof

Monday Night MayhemasLeonard Goldenson

Shoot First… Ask Questions LaterasSheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack

Crazy JoeasDon Vittorio

A Lovely Way to DieasTennessee Fredericks

Indict and ConvictasDeWitt Foster

Plot of FearasPeter Struwwel

Rat PackasSelf (archive footage)

The Executioner's SongasVern Damico

The LineupasDancer

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young ManasJohn

Clint Eastwood: Out of the ShadowsasSelf

GirlfriendsasRabbi Gold
LincolnasWilliam Crook (voice)

Showing UpasSelf

EmbassyasJoe Verga

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereasSelf

Nasty HabitsasMonsignor

Cinderella LibertyasLynn Forshay

The Easter Egg AdventureasNarrator (voice)

Movie MovieasVince Marlow / Pop

The Angel LevineasDelicatessen Clerk

Romance of a HorsethiefasKifke

Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal GoddessasSelf

The PirateasBen Ezra

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and HandsomeasSelf

The Adventures of GerardasNapoleon Bonaparte

Stateline MotelasJoe

The Toe TacticasMaestro

SkokieasBert Silverman

The Bookfair MurdersasErich Schmidt

Houston, We've Got a ProblemasNarrator (voice)

It's Alive: The True Story of FrankensteinasNarrator

Legacy of LiesasMoses Resnick

The People Next DoorasArthur Mason

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'asSelf

Zig ZagasMario Gambretti

Kisses for My PresidentasRaphael Valdez Jr.

Seven ThievesasPoncho

King of the CornerasSol Spivak

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road TripasOther Voices (voice)

Anatomy of an IllnessasDr. William Hitzig
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept SecretasSelf

FunnyasSelf

The Tiger Makes OutasBen Harris

IndependenceasBenjamin Franklin

An Empire of ReasonasAnti-Federalist Spokesman

The Donner Partyasvoice

Coney IslandasSelf - Actor

UninvitedasAlan Strasser

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 YearsasSelf

Eye of the CatasCesare

RitaasSelf

The Trial of Adolf EichmannasPinchas Freudiger / David Ben-Gurion (voices)

Hello Actors StudioasSelf

Sergio Leone: The Way I See ThingsasSelf

Act OneasWarren Stone

Steve McQueen: The Essence of CoolasSelf

Vendetta II: The New MafiaasFrank Latella

Making 'The Misfits'asSelf

The TypistsasPaul Cunningham

The WallasMauritzi Apt

Cinerama AdventureasSelf
Sex, Censorship and the Silver ScreenasQuote Reader

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser StoryasBill Presser

Something in CommonasNorman Voss

In the Name of DemocracyasNarrator

The Gift of the MagiasNarrator

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were KingasSelf / Narrator

Sam's SonasSam Orowitz

Naked City: Justice with a BulletasDeluca

Paradise LostasLeo Gordon

For Whom the Bell TollsasRafael

Elia Kazan: A Director's JourneyasNarrator

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined ConversationasFather

Fugitive FamilyasOlan Vacio

Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth GruberasMordechai Rossman (voice)

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was KingasSelf

Il falso bugiardoasSelf (archive footage)

The TrainasAndre
The LarkasDauphin

Vote and Die: Liszt for PresidentasJoe Nightingale

American CinemaasNarrator

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poemsas(voice)

The Education of Gore VidalasSelf

O. Henry's ChristmasasBehrman ("The Last Leaf")

The Search for DraculaasNarrator

LullabyasJohnny Horton

Por un puñado de sueñosasSelf - Interviewee

The Real James DeanasSelf

James Dean: Sense MemoriesasSelf

Honey Sweet LoveasDon Siro

Leone's WestasSelf

Rocket to the MoonasMr. Prince
The Owl Who Gave a HootasMr. Owl (voice)

Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'asSelf

The Plot to Kill StalinasPoskrebyshev
Terezin DiaryasNarrator

The Reason WhyasCharles

The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'asSelf

The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed MonstersasSelf - Narrator (voice)
Martha Graham: The Dancer RevealedasSelf

Gurias
I, Don QuixoteasSancho Panza / Cervantes' Manservant

Baby Doll: See No EvilasSelf

Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of FlatbushasSelf - Narrator (voice)
Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in PolandasNarrator (voice)

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymesas(voice)