Eli Wallach

from Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Artwork for The HolidayImage of Eli Wallach

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.

Timeline

2022Aged 107

  • Poster for Rat Pack

    Self (archive footage)

2015Aged 100

  • Poster for The Train

    Andre

2014Aged 99

  • Poster for Showing Up

    Self

2010Aged 95

  • Poster for The Ghost Writer

    Old man

  • Poster for Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber

    Mordechai Rossman (voice)

  • Poster for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

    Julie Steinhardt

2009Aged 94

  • Poster for The Toe Tactic

    Maestro

  • Poster for In the Name of Democracy

    Narrator

2008Aged 93

  • Poster for Vote and Die: Liszt for President

    Joe Nightingale

  • Poster for Il falso bugiardo

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for New York, I Love You

    Abe

2007Aged 92

  • Poster for Brando

    Self

  • Poster for Brand Upon the Brain!

    Narrator (live recording)

  • Poster for Mama's Boy

    Seymour Warburton

2006Aged 91

  • Poster for The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'

    Self

  • Poster for Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

    Self

  • Poster for Baby Doll: See No Evil

    Self

  • Poster for The Real James Dean

    Self

  • Poster for The Hoax

    Noah Dietrich

  • Poster for The Holiday

    Arthur

2005Aged 90

  • Poster for The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

    Father

  • Poster for James Dean: Sense Memories

    Self

  • Poster for Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool

    Self

  • Poster for A Taste Of Jupiter

    Arturo

2004Aged 89

  • Poster for Por un puñado de sueños

    Self - Interviewee

  • Poster for Leone's West

    Self

  • Poster for Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'

    Self

  • Poster for King of the Corner

    Sol Spivak

  • Poster for Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    Other Voices (voice)

  • Poster for The Easter Egg Adventure

    Narrator (voice)

2003Aged 88

  • Poster for Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

    Self / Narrator

  • Poster for Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

    Self

  • Poster for The Education of Gore Vidal

    Self

  • Poster for Rita

    Self

  • Poster for Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

    Other Voices (voice)

  • Poster for Mystic River

    Mr. Loonie (uncredited)

2002Aged 87

  • Poster for Monday Night Mayhem

    Leonard Goldenson

  • Poster for Cinerama Adventure

    Self

  • Poster for Making 'The Misfits'

    Self

2000Aged 85

  • Poster for The Bookfair Murders

    Erich Schmidt

  • Poster for Keeping the Faith

    Rabbi Ben Lewis

  • Poster for Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

    Self

  • Poster for Uninvited

    Alan Strasser

  • Poster for Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

    Self

1998Aged 83

  • Poster for Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

    Deluca

1997Aged 82

  • Poster for Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

    Self

  • Poster for The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

    Pinchas Freudiger / David Ben-Gurion (voices)

1996Aged 81

  • Poster for The Search for Dracula

    Narrator

  • Poster for Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

    Self

  • Poster for Honey Sweet Love

    Don Siro

  • Poster for O. Henry's Christmas

    Behrman ("The Last Leaf")

  • Poster for The Associate

    Donald Fallon

1995Aged 80

  • Poster for Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

    Self

  • Poster for Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey

    Narrator

  • Poster for James Dean: A Portrait

    Self

  • Poster for Two Much

    Sheldon

1994Aged 79

1992Aged 77

  • Poster for Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

    (voice)

  • Poster for Article 99

    Sam Abrams

  • Poster for Legacy of Lies

    Moses Resnick

  • Poster for Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

    (voice)

  • Poster for Mistress

    George Lieberhof

  • Poster for Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

    Bill Presser

  • Poster for Night and the City

    Peck

  • Poster for The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

    Don Altobello

  • Poster for The Donner Party

    voice

  • Lincoln

    William Crook (voice)

1991Aged 76

1990Aged 75

1988Aged 73

  • Poster for Funny

    Self

  • Poster for An Empire of Reason

    Anti-Federalist Spokesman

  • Poster for Hello Actors Studio

    Self

1987Aged 72

1986Aged 71

  • Poster for Rocket to the Moon

    Mr. Prince

  • Poster for Tough Guys

    Leon B. Little

  • Poster for Something in Common

    Norman Voss

1985Aged 70

  • Poster for Embassy

    Joe Verga

  • Poster for Murder: By Reason of Insanity

    Dr. Huffman

1984Aged 69

  • Poster for Anatomy of an Illness

    Dr. William Hitzig

  • Poster for Sam's Son

    Sam Orowitz

1982Aged 67

  • Poster for The Wall

    Mauritzi Apt

  • Poster for The Executioner's Song

    Vern Damico

1981Aged 66

  • Poster for The Pride of Jesse Hallam

    Sal Galucci

  • Poster for The Salamander

    General Leporello

  • Poster for Skokie

    Bert Silverman

1980Aged 65

  • Poster for Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for The Hunter

    Ritchie Blumenthal

  • Poster for Guri

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Fugitive Family

    Olan Vacio

1979Aged 64

  • Poster for Firepower

    Sal Hyman

  • Poster for Winter Kills

    Joe Diamond

1978Aged 63

  • Poster for Circle of Iron

    Man-in-Oil

  • Poster for Girlfriends

    Rabbi Gold

  • Poster for Little Italy

    Don Gerolamo Giarra

  • Poster for Movie Movie

    Vince Marlow / Pop

1977Aged 62

  • Poster for The Sentinel

    Detective Gatz

  • Poster for Nasty Habits

    Monsignor

  • Poster for The Domino Principle

    Gen. Reser

  • Poster for The Deep

    Adam Coffin

1976Aged 61

  • Poster for Independence

    Benjamin Franklin

  • Poster for Plot of Fear

    Peter Struwwel

1975Aged 60

  • Poster for The White, The Yellow, and The Black

    Sheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack

  • Poster for Eye of the Cat

    Cesare

1974Aged 59

  • Poster for Indict and Convict

    DeWitt Foster

  • Poster for Crazy Joe

    Don Vittorio

  • Poster for Houston, We've Got a Problem

    Narrator (voice)

1973Aged 58

  • Poster for A Cold Night's Death

    Frank Enari

  • Poster for Stateline Motel

    Joe

  • Poster for Cinderella Liberty

    Lynn Forshay

1971Aged 56

  • Poster for Paradise Lost

    Leo Gordon

  • Poster for Romance of a Horsethief

    Kifke

  • Poster for The Typists

    Paul Cunningham

  • Poster for Don't Turn the Other Cheek

    Maz Lozoya

1970Aged 55

  • Poster for The Reason Why

    Charles

  • Poster for Zig Zag

    Mario Gambretti

  • Poster for The Adventures of Gerard

    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Poster for The Angel Levine

    Delicatessen Clerk

  • Poster for The People Next Door

    Arthur Mason

1969Aged 54

  • Poster for The Brain

    Frankie Scannapieco, Godfather of the Italian Mafia

  • Poster for Mackenna's Gold

    Ben Baker

1968Aged 53

  • Poster for How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

    Harry Hunter

  • Poster for A Lovely Way to Die

    Tennessee Fredericks

  • Poster for Ace High

    Cacopoulos

1967Aged 52

1966Aged 51

  • Poster for The Poppy Is Also a Flower

    'Happy' Locarno

  • Poster for How to Steal a Million

    Davis Leland

  • Poster for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    Tuco Ramirez

1965Aged 50

  • Poster for Lord Jim

    The General

  • Poster for Genghis Khan

    Shah of Khwarezm

1964Aged 49

  • Poster for The Moon-Spinners

    Stratos

  • Poster for Kisses for My President

    Raphael Valdez Jr.

1963Aged 48

  • Poster for The Victors

    Sgt. Craig

  • Poster for Act One

    Warren Stone

1962Aged 47

  • Poster for Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

    John

  • Poster for How the West Was Won

    Charlie Gant

1961Aged 46

  • Poster for The Misfits

    Guido

1960Aged 45

  • Poster for Lullaby

    Johnny Horton

  • Poster for Seven Thieves

    Poncho

  • Poster for The Magnificent Seven

    Calvera

1959Aged 44

1958Aged 43

  • Poster for The Lineup

    Dancer

  • Poster for The Plot to Kill Stalin

    Poskrebyshev

  • Poster for The Gift of the Magi

    Narrator

1957Aged 42

  • Poster for The Lark

    Dauphin

1956Aged 41

  • Poster for Baby Doll

    Silva Vacarro

Year unknown