Eli Wallach
Acting • Born 1915-12-07 – Died 2014-06-24
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.
Filmography
214 credits
The Godfather Part III
Movie • 1990
Don Altobello
Mystic River
Movie • 2003
Mr. Loonie (uncredited)
The Magnificent Seven
Movie • 1960
Calvera
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie • 1959
Rafael
The Holiday
Movie • 2006
Arthur Abbott
How to Steal a Million
Movie • 1966
Davis Leland
The Victors
Movie • 1963
Sgt. Craig
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Movie • 1994
Self
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
Movie • 1995
Self
Genghis Khan
Movie • 1965
Shah of Khwarezm
The Deep
Movie • 1977
Adam Coffin
Tough Guys
Movie • 1986
Leon B. Little
Keeping the Faith
Movie • 2000
Rabbi Ben Lewis
The Associate
Movie • 1996
Donald Fallon
The Hunter
Movie • 1980
Ritchie Blumenthal
The Misfits
Movie • 1961
Guido
Lord Jim
Movie • 1965
The General
The Ghost Writer
Movie • 2010
Old man
Article 99
Movie • 1992
Sam Abrams
Vendetta II: The New Mafia
Movie • 1993
Frank Latella
Circle of Iron
Movie • 1978
Man-in-Oil
Ace High
Movie • 1968
Cacopoulos
The Lineup
Movie • 1958
Dancer
How the West Was Won
Movie • 1962
Charlie Gant
The Domino Principle
Movie • 1977
Gen. Reser
The Two Jakes
Movie • 1990
Cotton Weinberger
A Taste Of Jupiter
Movie • 2005
Arturo
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
Movie • 2005
Self
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Movie • 2010
Julie Steinhardt
Mama's Boy
Movie • 2007
Seymour Warburton
Baby Doll
Movie • 1956
Silva Vacarro
Nuts
Movie • 1987
Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
Winter Kills
Movie • 1979
Joe Diamond
Night and the City
Movie • 1992
Peck
The Moon-Spinners
Movie • 1964
Stratos
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Movie • 2005
Father
Plot of Fear
Movie • 1976
Peter Struwwel
The Gift of the Magi
Movie • 1958
Narrator
Two Much
Movie • 1995
Sheldon
The Impossible Spy
Movie • 1987
Yacov
Seven Thieves
Movie • 1960
Poncho
Firepower
Movie • 1979
Sal Hyman
Funny
Movie • 1988
Self
Mackenna's Gold
Movie • 1969
Ben Baker
The Sentinel
Movie • 1977
Detective Gatz
Rocket to the Moon
Movie • 1986
Mr. Prince
Hollywood Uncensored
Movie • 1987
Self
The Executioner's Song
Movie • 1982
Vern Damico
Crazy Joe
Movie • 1974
Don Vittorio
Mistress
Movie • 1992
George Lieberhof
Guri
Movie • 1980
The Lark
Movie • 1957
Dauphin
Zig Zag
Movie • 1970
Mario Gambretti
Uninvited
Movie • 2000
Alan Strasser
Cinderella Liberty
Movie • 1973
Lynn Forshay
Movie Movie
Movie • 1978
Vince Marlow / Pop
Shoot First… Ask Questions Later
Movie • 1975
Sheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
Movie • 1980
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Easter Egg Adventure
Movie • 2004
Narrator (voice)
A Lovely Way to Die
Movie • 1968
Tennessee Fredericks
Sam's Son
Movie • 1984
Sam Orowitz
A Cold Night's Death
Movie • 1973
Frank Enari
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie • 2003
Self
The Toe Tactic
Movie • 2009
Maestro
The People Next Door
Movie • 1970
Arthur Mason
The Donner Party
Movie • 1992
voice
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
Movie • 2010
Mordechai Rossman (voice)
Girlfriends
Movie • 1978
Rabbi Gold
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Movie • 1962
John
Nasty Habits
Movie • 1977
Monsignor
Houston, We've Got a Problem
Movie • 1974
Narrator (voice)
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Movie • 1995
Narrator
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Movie • 1966
'Happy' Locarno
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
Movie • 1971
Maz Lozoya
Romance of a Horsethief
Movie • 1971
Kifke
Monday Night Mayhem
Movie • 2002
Leonard Goldenson
Act One
Movie • 1963
Warren Stone
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Movie • 1968
Harry Hunter
Kisses for My President
Movie • 1964
Raphael Valdez Jr.
Cinerama Adventure
Movie • 2002
Self
The Adventures of Gerard
Movie • 1970
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Tiger Makes Out
Movie • 1967
Ben Harris
Showing Up
Movie • 2014
Self
Skokie
Movie • 1981
Bert Silverman
Hello Actors Studio
Movie • 1988
Self
The Angel Levine
Movie • 1970
Delicatessen Clerk
The Reason Why
Movie • 1970
Charles
The Brain
Movie • 1969
Frankie Scannapieco, godfather of the Italian mafia
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
Movie • 1992
(voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
Movie • 1992
(voice)
Anatomy of an Illness
Movie • 1984
Dr. William Hitzig
The Salamander
Movie • 1981
General Leporello
Stateline Motel
Movie • 1973
Joe
Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'
Movie • 2004
Self
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Movie • 1998
Deluca
Eye of the Cat
Movie • 1975
Cesare
New York, I Love You
Movie • 2008
Abe
Rat Pack
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'
Movie • 2006
Self
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Movie • 1966
Tuco Ramirez
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Movie • 1990
Self
The Education of Gore Vidal
Movie • 2003
Self
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Movie • 1985
Dr. Huffman
Paradise Lost
Movie • 1971
Leo Gordon
Embassy
Movie • 1985
Joe Verga
The Plot to Kill Stalin
Movie • 1958
Poskrebyshev
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Movie • 2003
Self / Narrator
James Dean: Sense Memories
Movie • 2005
Self
Vote and Die: Liszt for President
Movie • 2008
Joe Nightingale
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
Movie • 1996
Quote Reader
Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland
Movie • 1987
Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie • 2000
Self
Legacy of Lies
Movie • 1992
Moses Resnick
The Pirate
Movie • 1978
Ben Ezra
Brando
Movie • 2007
Self
Little Italy
Movie • 1978
Don Gerolamo Giarra
An Empire of Reason
Movie • 1988
Anti-Federalist Spokesman
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Movie • 1990
Self / Don Altobello
Coney Island
Movie • 1991
Self - Actor
The Bookfair Murders
Movie • 2000
Erich Schmidt
The Train
Movie • 2015
Andre
Terezin Diary
Movie • 1991
Narrator
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
Movie • 1992
Bill Presser
The Hoax
Movie • 2006
Noah Dietrich
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Movie • 2003
Other Voices (voice)
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
Movie • 1994
Self
I, Don Quixote
Movie • 1959
Sancho Panza / Cervantes' Manservant
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
Movie • 2000
Self
Indict and Convict
Movie • 1974
DeWitt Foster
Rita
Movie • 2003
Self
Honey Sweet Love
Movie • 1996
Don Siro
The Search for Dracula
Movie • 1996
Narrator
The Pride of Jesse Hallam
Movie • 1981
Sal Galucci
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Movie • 2006
Self
O. Henry's Christmas
Movie • 1996
Behrman ("The Last Leaf")
Fugitive Family
Movie • 1980
Olan Vacio
Leone's West
Movie • 2004
Self
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
Movie • 1994
Self - Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Movie • 2004
Other Voices (voice)
The Typists
Movie • 1971
Paul Cunningham
Lullaby
Movie • 1960
Johnny Horton
Making 'The Misfits'
Movie • 2002
Self
Il falso bugiardo
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
The Real James Dean
Movie • 2006
Self
Por un puñado de sueños
Movie • 2004
Self - Interviewee
The Wall
Movie • 1982
Mauritzi Apt
Something in Common
Movie • 1986
Norman Voss
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
Movie • 1997
Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil
Movie • 2006
Self
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
William Crook (voice)
King of the Corner
Movie • 2004
Sol Spivak
Independence
Movie • 1976
Benjamin Franklin
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Movie • 1997
Pinchas Freudiger / David Ben-Gurion (voices)
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Movie • 1996
Self
The Owl Who Gave a Hoot
Movie • 1967
Mr. Owl (voice)
James Dean: A Portrait
Movie • 1995
Self
In the Name of Democracy
Movie • 2009
Narrator
The Yidishe Gauchos
Movie
Narrator
The Job
TV • 2001
Mr. Weiss
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Simon Vilanis
The Dick Powell Show
TV • 1961
Manny Jacobs
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
TV • 2006
Eli Weinraub
Batman
TV • 1966
Mister Freeze
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Gerry Williams
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
Timothy Charles
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Naked City
TV • 1958
Det. Peter Bane
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1985
Yosef Kandinsky
The David Susskind Show
TV • 1959
Self
Kojak
TV • 1973
Lee Curtin
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Dauphin
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Veritas: The Quest
TV • 2003
Rabbi
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Raymond Perez
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self
Climax!
TV • 1954
Albert Anastasia
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Our Family Honor
TV • 1985
Vincent Danzig
CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966
Douglas Lambert
Lights Out
TV • 1949
Giovanni
The Hollywood Greats
TV • 1977
Self
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Salvatore Gambini
The West
TV • 1996
Self
Naked City
TV • 1958
Georgie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Reading Rainbow
TV • 1983
Self - Narrator (voice)
Studio One
TV • 1948
Ozep
Studio One
TV • 1948
Peter Hendon
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Nacho
The War
TV • 2007
Narrator (voice)
Seventh Avenue
TV • 1977
Gus Farber
Christopher Columbus
TV • 1985
Padre Fernando De Talavera
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
Baseball
TV • 1994
Various (voice)
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Rafael
ER
TV • 1994
Mr. Langston
American Playhouse
TV • 1982
Mr. Prince
The Executioner's Song
TV • 1982
Vern Damico
Suspicion
TV • 1957
Whoopi
TV • 2003
Norman
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV • 1958
Simon
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)
Stroker and Hoop
TV • 2004
Narrator (voice)
Nurse Jackie
TV • 2009
Bernard Zimberg
Worlds Beyond
TV • 1986
Charles Burgess