Eli Wallach
Acting
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.
As actor 216
Law & Order
1990
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Tony Awards
1956
Murder, She Wrote
1984
ER
1994
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Omnibus
1952
American Playhouse
1982
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Batman
1966
Wogan
1982
Great Performances
1971
Nurse Jackie
2009
Screen Two
1985
Highway to Heaven
1984
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
What's My Line?
1950
Climax!
1954
Studio One
1948
Naked City
1958
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Lights Out
1949
The Godfather Part III
1990
Kojak
1973
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
Mystic River
2003
The Magnificent Seven
1960
Reading Rainbow
1983
Playhouse 90
1956
The Holiday
2006
Suspicion
1957
Outlaws
1960
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Baseball
1994
Christopher Columbus
1985
New York, I Love You
2008
The Dick Powell Show
1961
The War
2007
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
The Job
2001
Stroker and Hoop
2004
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
The David Susskind Show
1959
The Ghost Writer
2010
The Misfits
1961
Whoopi
2003
Veritas: The Quest
2003
How the West Was Won
1962
Keeping the Faith
2000
The Deep
1977
The Hollywood Greats
1977
The Pirate
1977
CBS Playhouse
1966
Mackenna's Gold
1969
The West
1996
The Sentinel
1977
The Domino Principle
1977
Worlds Beyond
1986
Our Family Honor
1985
How to Steal a Million
1966
The Associate
1996
The Hoax
2006
Tough Guys
1986
The Brain
1969
The Two Jakes
1990
Mama's Boy
2007
Lord Jim
1965
The Hunter
1980
Two Much
1995
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
Baby Doll
1956
Article 99
1992
Rat Pack
2022
The White, The Yellow, and The Black
1975
Seventh Avenue
1977
The Salamander
1981
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Nuts
1987
The Victors
1963
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
Showing Up
2014
Genghis Khan
1965
An Empire of Reason
1988
Ace High
1968
Eye of the Cat
1975
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
2020
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
The Typists
1971
Girlfriends
1978
Mistress
1992
Crazy Joe
1974
Little Italy
1978
Plot of Fear
1976
Cinderella Liberty
1973
Winter Kills
1979
Hello Actors Studio
1988
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Coney Island
1991
The Moon-Spinners
1964
Brando
2007
Movie Movie
1978
Night and the City
1992
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Act One
1963
Guri
1980
A Lovely Way to Die
1968
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
The Lineup
1958
Circle of Iron
1978
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
2000
The Executioner's Song
1982
Firepower
1979
Nasty Habits
1977
Rita
2003
James Dean: Sense Memories
2005
Monday Night Mayhem
2002
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Lincoln
1992
King of the Corner
2004
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
1971
The Wall
1982
Seven Thieves
1960
Fugitive Family
1980
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
2005
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1985
Stateline Motel
1973
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003
Rocket to the Moon
1986
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
1994
The Impossible Spy
1987
The Donner Party
1992
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
1995
Uninvited
2000
Paradise Lost
1971
O. Henry's Christmas
1996
The Executioner's Song
1982
Indict and Convict
1974
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
Sam's Son
1984
The Lark
1957
The Train
2015
Zig Zag
1970
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
The Toe Tactic
2009
Kisses for My President
1964
Terezin Diary
1991
The Bookfair Murders
2000
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997
The Gift of the Magi
1958
Vendetta II: The New Mafia
1993
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
The Angel Levine
1970
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
A Cold Night's Death
1973
Eve and Marilyn
1987
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005
Leone's West
2004
The Adventures of Gerard
1970
The Pride of Jesse Hallam
1981
Making 'The Misfits'
2002
Embassy
1985
The Tiger Makes Out
1967
Il falso bugiardo
2008
Romance of a Horsethief
1971
Hollywood's Favorite Heavy: Businessmen on Prime Time TV
1987
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
The People Next Door
1970
The Real James Dean
2006
Lullaby
1960
The Easter Egg Adventure
2004
Anatomy of an Illness
1984
The Search for Dracula
1996
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
Skokie
1981
Vote and Die: Liszt for President
2008
Honey Sweet Love
1996
Independence
1976
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
James Dean: A Portrait
1995
I, Don Quixote
1959
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
1994
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
Houston, We've Got a Problem
1974
Legacy of Lies
1992
Something in Common
1986
Cinerama Adventure
2002
Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'
2004
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
1980
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
2010
The Reason Why
1970
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
1994
A Taste Of Jupiter
2005
Por un puñado de sueños
2004
Funny
1988
Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland
1987
The Yidishe Gauchos
The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'
2006
The Owl Who Gave a Hoot
1967
In the Name of Democracy
2009