Eli Wallach
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 7, 1915
- Died
- Jun 24, 2014 (aged 98)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 215
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
1966Movie
Tuco Ramirez
Mystic River
2003Movie
Mr. Loonie (uncredited)
The Godfather Part III
1990Movie
Don Altobello
The Holiday
2006Movie
Arthur
The Ghost Writer
2010Movie
Old man
The Magnificent Seven
1960Movie
Calvera
Filmography
Rat Pack
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Train
2015Movie
Andre
Showing Up
2014Movie
Self
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010Movie
Julie Steinhardt
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
2010Movie
Mordechai Rossman (voice)
The Ghost Writer
2010Movie
Old man
Nurse Jackie
2009TV
Bernard Zimberg
In the Name of Democracy
2009Movie
Narrator
The Toe Tactic
2009Movie
Maestro
New York, I Love You
2008Movie
Abe
Il falso bugiardo
2008Movie
Self (archive footage)
Vote and Die: Liszt for President
2008Movie
Joe Nightingale
Mama's Boy
2007Movie
Seymour Warburton
The War
2007TV
Narrator (voice)
Brando
2007Movie
Self
The Holiday
2006Movie
Arthur
The Hoax
2006Movie
Noah Dietrich
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006TV
Eli Weinraub
The Real James Dean
2006Movie
Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006Movie
Self
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006Movie
Self
The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'
2006Movie
Self
A Taste Of Jupiter
2005Movie
Arturo
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
2005Movie
Self
James Dean: Sense Memories
2005Movie
Self
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005Movie
Father
The Easter Egg Adventure
2004Movie
Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004Movie
Other Voices (voice)
Stroker and Hoop
2004TV
Narrator (voice)
King of the Corner
2004Movie
Sol Spivak
Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'
2004Movie
Self
Leone's West
2004Movie
Self
Por un puñado de sueños
2004Movie
Self - Interviewee
Mystic River
2003Movie
Mr. Loonie (uncredited)
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003Movie
Other Voices (voice)
Rita
2003Movie
Self
Whoopi
2003TV
Norman
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003Movie
Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003Movie
Self
Veritas: The Quest
2003TV
Rabbi
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003Movie
Self / Narrator
Making 'The Misfits'
2002Movie
Self
Cinerama Adventure
2002Movie
Self
Monday Night Mayhem
2002Movie
Leonard Goldenson
The Job
2001TV
Mr. Weiss
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000Movie
Self
Uninvited
2000Movie
Alan Strasser
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
2000Movie
Self
Keeping the Faith
2000Movie
Rabbi Ben Lewis
The Bookfair Murders
2000Movie
Erich Schmidt
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998Movie
Deluca
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997Movie
Pinchas Freudiger / David Ben-Gurion (voices)
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997Movie
Self
The Associate
1996Movie
Donald Fallon
The West
1996TV
Self
O. Henry's Christmas
1996Movie
Behrman ("The Last Leaf")
Honey Sweet Love
1996Movie
Don Siro
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996Movie
Self
The Search for Dracula
1996Movie
Narrator
Two Much
1995Movie
Sheldon
James Dean: A Portrait
1995Movie
Self
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
1995Movie
Narrator
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995Movie
Self
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994Movie
Narrator
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
1994Movie
Self
ER
1994TV
Mr. Langston
Baseball
1994TV
Various (voice), (voice)
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
1994Movie
Self
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
1994Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993TV
Self - Guest
Vendetta II: The New Mafia
1993TV
Frank Latella
Lincoln
1992Movie
William Crook (voice)
The Donner Party
1992Movie
voice
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992Movie
Don Altobello
Night and the City
1992Movie
Peck
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992Movie
Bill Presser
Mistress
1992Movie
George Lieberhof
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992Movie
(voice)
Legacy of Lies
1992Movie
Moses Resnick
Article 99
1992Movie
Sam Abrams
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992Movie
(voice)
Terezin Diary
1991Movie
Narrator
Coney Island
1991Movie
Self - Actor
The Godfather Part III
1990Movie
Don Altobello
Law & Order
1990TV
Simon Vilanis
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990Movie
Self
The Two Jakes
1990Movie
Cotton Weinberger
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990Movie
Self / Don Altobello
Hello Actors Studio
1988Movie
Self
An Empire of Reason
1988Movie
Anti-Federalist Spokesman
Funny
1988Movie
Self
Hollywood Uncensored
1987Movie
Self
The Impossible Spy
1987Movie
Yacov
Nuts
1987Movie
Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
Eve and Marilyn
1987Movie
Self (archive photo)
Hollywood's Favorite Heavy: Businessmen on Prime Time TV
1987Movie
Self - Host
Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland
1987Movie
Narrator (voice)
Something in Common
1986Movie
Norman Voss
Worlds Beyond
1986TV
Charles Burgess
Tough Guys
1986Movie
Leon B. Little
Rocket to the Moon
1986Movie
Mr. Prince
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1985Movie
Dr. Huffman
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985TV
Yosef Kandinsky
Our Family Honor
1985TV
Vincent Danzig
Embassy
1985Movie
Joe Verga
Christopher Columbus
1985TV
Padre Fernando De Talavera
Screen Two
1985TV
Yacov
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Salvatore Gambini
Highway to Heaven
1984TV
Timothy Charles, Gene Malloy
Sam's Son
1984Movie
Sam Orowitz
Anatomy of an Illness
1984Movie
Dr. William Hitzig
Reading Rainbow
1983TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Executioner's Song
1982TV
Vern Damico
The Executioner's Song
1982Movie
Vern Damico
Wogan
1982TV
Self
The Wall
1982Movie
Mauritzi Apt
American Playhouse
1982TV
Mr. Prince
Skokie
1981Movie
Bert Silverman
The Salamander
1981Movie
General Leporello
The Pride of Jesse Hallam
1981Movie
Sal Galucci
Fugitive Family
1980Movie
Olan Vacio
Guri
1980Movie
The Hunter
1980Movie
Ritchie Blumenthal
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
1980Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Winter Kills
1979Movie
Joe Diamond
Firepower
1979Movie
Sal Hyman
Tales of the Unexpected
1979TV
Gerry Williams
Movie Movie
1978Movie
Vince Marlow / Pop
Little Italy
1978Movie
Don Gerolamo Giarra
Girlfriends
1978Movie
Rabbi Gold
Circle of Iron
1978Movie
Man-in-Oil
The Pirate
1977TV
Ben Ezra
The Hollywood Greats
1977TV
Self
The Deep
1977Movie
Adam Coffin
The Domino Principle
1977Movie
Gen. Reser
Seventh Avenue
1977TV
Gus Farber
Nasty Habits
1977Movie
Monsignor
The Sentinel
1977Movie
Detective Gatz
Plot of Fear
1976Movie
Peter Struwwel
Independence
1976Movie
Benjamin Franklin
Eye of the Cat
1975Movie
Cesare
The White, The Yellow, and The Black
1975Movie
Sheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack
Houston, We've Got a Problem
1974Movie
Narrator (voice)
Crazy Joe
1974Movie
Don Vittorio
Indict and Convict
1974Movie
DeWitt Foster
Cinderella Liberty
1973Movie
Lynn Forshay
Kojak
1973TV
Lee Curtin
Stateline Motel
1973Movie
Joe
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973TV
Fuzzy
A Cold Night's Death
1973Movie
Frank Enari
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
1971Movie
Maz Lozoya
The Typists
1971Movie
Paul Cunningham
Romance of a Horsethief
1971Movie
Kifke
Paradise Lost
1971Movie
Leo Gordon
Great Performances
1971TV
Self
The People Next Door
1970Movie
Arthur Mason
The Angel Levine
1970Movie
Delicatessen Clerk
The Adventures of Gerard
1970Movie
Napoleon Bonaparte
Zig Zag
1970Movie
Mario Gambretti
The Reason Why
1970Movie
Charles
Mackenna's Gold
1969Movie
Ben Baker
The Brain
1969Movie
Frankie Scannapieco, Godfather of the Italian Mafia
Ace High
1968Movie
Cacopoulos
A Lovely Way to Die
1968Movie
Tennessee Fredericks
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968TV
Self
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968Movie
Harry Hunter
The Tiger Makes Out
1967Movie
Ben Harris
The Owl Who Gave a Hoot
1967Movie
Mr. Owl (voice)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966Movie
Tuco Ramirez
CBS Playhouse
1966TV
Douglas Lambert
How to Steal a Million
1966Movie
Davis Leland
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966Movie
'Happy' Locarno
Batman
1966TV
Mister Freeze
Genghis Khan
1965Movie
Shah of Khwarezm
Lord Jim
1965Movie
The General
Kisses for My President
1964Movie
Raphael Valdez Jr.
The Moon-Spinners
1964Movie
Stratos
Act One
1963Movie
Warren Stone
The Victors
1963Movie
Sgt. Craig
How the West Was Won
1962Movie
Charlie Gant
The Merv Griffin Show
1962TV
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962Movie
John
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
The Dick Powell Show
1961TV
Manny Jacobs
The Misfits
1961Movie
Guido
The Magnificent Seven
1960Movie
Calvera
Outlaws
1960TV
Seven Thieves
1960Movie
Poncho
Lullaby
1960Movie
Johnny Horton
I, Don Quixote
1959Movie
Sancho Panza / Cervantes' Manservant
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959Movie
Rafael
The David Susskind Show
1959TV
Self
The Gift of the Magi
1958Movie
Narrator
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958TV
Raymond Perez
Naked City
1958TV
Det. Peter Bane, Georgie
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958Movie
Poskrebyshev
The Lineup
1958Movie
Dancer
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958TV
Simon
Suspicion
1957TV
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957TV
Self
The Lark
1957Movie
Dauphin
Baby Doll
1956Movie
Silva Vacarro
Playhouse 90
1956TV
Rafael
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Presenter
Climax!
1954TV
Albert Anastasia
Omnibus
1952TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Dauphin
What's My Line?
1950TV
Self - Mystery Guest
Lights Out
1949TV
Giovanni
Studio One
1948TV
Ozep, Peter Hendon
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948TV
Nacho
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948TV
Self
The Yidishe Gauchos
Movie
Narrator