
Eli Wallach
Known for Acting · 215 credits
- Born
- 1915-12-07
- Died
- 2014-06-24
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Ely Wallach · 엘리 웰라치 · Елай Воллак · Eli Herschel Wallach · ایلی والاک
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.
Known For
TV Shows (55)

Law & Order
1990
as Simon Vilanis

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

ER
1994
as Mr. Langston

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Salvatore Gambini

Batman
1966
as Mister Freeze

Great Performances
1971
as Self

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Nacho

What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest

The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

Wogan
1982
as Self

Climax!
1954
as Albert Anastasia

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter

Naked City
1958
as Det. Peter Bane / Georgie

Studio One
1948
as Ozep / Peter Hendon

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Gerry Williams

Highway to Heaven
1984
as Timothy Charles / Gene Malloy

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as Yosef Kandinsky

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self

Kojak
1973
as Lee Curtin

Nurse Jackie
2009
as Bernard Zimberg

Omnibus
1952

Screen Two
1985
as Yacov
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self

Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Lights Out
1949
as Giovanni

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
as Self

Playhouse 90
1956
as Rafael

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
as Raymond Perez

Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
as Simon

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
as Eli Weinraub

Outlaws
1960

Suspicion
1957

Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)

The Dick Powell Show
1961
as Manny Jacobs

The Job
2001
as Mr. Weiss
CBS Playhouse
1966
as Douglas Lambert

American Playhouse
1982
as Mr. Prince

Whoopi
2003
as Norman

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Fuzzy

The West
1996
as Self

Veritas: The Quest
2003
as Rabbi

The War
2007
as Narrator (voice)

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dauphin

Stroker and Hoop
2004
as Narrator (voice)

The David Susskind Show
1959
as Self

The Hollywood Greats
1977
as Self

Our Family Honor
1985
as Vincent Danzig

Worlds Beyond
1986
as Charles Burgess

Christopher Columbus
1985
as Padre Fernando De Talavera

Seventh Avenue
1977
as Gus Farber

The Pirate
1977
as Ben Ezra

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

The Executioner's Song
1982
as Vern Damico
Movies (160)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
as Tuco Ramirez

The Godfather Part III
1990
as Don Altobello

The Holiday
2006
as Arthur

The Magnificent Seven
1960
as Calvera

Mystic River
2003
as Mr. Loonie (uncredited)

New York, I Love You
2008
as Abe

The Misfits
1961
as Guido

The Ghost Writer
2010
as Old man

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
as Julie Steinhardt

How to Steal a Million
1966
as Davis Leland

How the West Was Won
1962
as Charlie Gant

The Deep
1977
as Adam Coffin

Mackenna's Gold
1969
as Ben Baker

Article 99
1992
as Sam Abrams

The Hoax
2006
as Noah Dietrich

The Sentinel
1977
as Detective Gatz

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)

The Brain
1969
as Frankie Scannapieco, Godfather of the Italian Mafia

The Associate
1996
as Donald Fallon

The Two Jakes
1990
as Cotton Weinberger

Mama's Boy
2007
as Seymour Warburton

Ace High
1968
as Cacopoulos

The Hunter
1980
as Ritchie Blumenthal

Shoot First… Ask Questions Later
1975
as Sheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack

Mistress
1992
as George Lieberhof

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
as Self / Don Altobello

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self

Keeping the Faith
2000
as Rabbi Ben Lewis

Nuts
1987
as Dr. Herbert A. Morrison

Tough Guys
1986
as Leon B. Little

Winter Kills
1979
as Joe Diamond

Independence
1976
as Benjamin Franklin

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
as Narrator

Baby Doll
1956
as Silva Vacarro

Genghis Khan
1965
as Shah of Khwarezm

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
as John

The Domino Principle
1977
as Gen. Reser

Hello Actors Studio
1988
as Self

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
as Other Voices (voice)

Night and the City
1992
as Peck

Brando
2007
as Self

Circle of Iron
1978
as Man-in-Oil

The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as 'Happy' Locarno

Lord Jim
1965
as The General

The Pirate
1978
as Ben Ezra

Showing Up
2014
as Self

Crazy Joe
1974
as Don Vittorio
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
as Self

Two Much
1995
as Sheldon

The Victors
1963
as Sgt. Craig

The Moon-Spinners
1964
as Stratos

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
2005
as Self

Monday Night Mayhem
2002
as Leonard Goldenson

Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)

Fugitive Family
1980
as Olan Vacio

The Executioner's Song
1982
as Vern Damico

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
as Pinchas Freudiger / David Ben-Gurion (voices)

Seven Thieves
1960
as Poncho

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992
as Bill Presser

Skokie
1981
as Bert Silverman

Il falso bugiardo
2008
as Self (archive footage)

The Adventures of Gerard
1970
as Napoleon Bonaparte

Firepower
1979
as Sal Hyman

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
as Self

Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1985
as Dr. Huffman

The Salamander
1981
as General Leporello
Lincoln
1992
as William Crook (voice)

Funny
1988
as Self

Movie Movie
1978
as Vince Marlow / Pop

Don't Turn the Other Cheek
1971
as Maz Lozoya

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997
as Self

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
as Deluca

Embassy
1985
as Joe Verga

Little Italy
1978
as Don Gerolamo Giarra

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
as Self

Girlfriends
1978
as Rabbi Gold

Plot of Fear
1976
as Peter Struwwel

Legacy of Lies
1992
as Moses Resnick

Romance of a Horsethief
1971
as Kifke

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
as Self

Act One
1963
as Warren Stone

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968
as Harry Hunter

The People Next Door
1970
as Arthur Mason

Coney Island
1991
as Self - Actor

A Lovely Way to Die
1968
as Tennessee Fredericks

The Lineup
1958
as Dancer

Nasty Habits
1977
as Monsignor

Hollywood Uncensored
1987
as Self

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
as Self / Narrator

An Empire of Reason
1988
as Anti-Federalist Spokesman

Zig Zag
1970
as Mario Gambretti

The Tiger Makes Out
1967
as Ben Harris

King of the Corner
2004
as Sol Spivak

Houston, We've Got a Problem
1974
as Narrator (voice)

The Easter Egg Adventure
2004
as Narrator (voice)

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
2000
as Self

The Bookfair Murders
2000
as Erich Schmidt

Anatomy of an Illness
1984
as Dr. William Hitzig

Kisses for My President
1964
as Raphael Valdez Jr.

Indict and Convict
1974
as DeWitt Foster

Vendetta II: The New Mafia
1993
as Frank Latella

Sam's Son
1984
as Sam Orowitz

Cinderella Liberty
1973
as Lynn Forshay

Something in Common
1986
as Norman Voss

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005
as Father

Rocket to the Moon
1986
as Mr. Prince

O. Henry's Christmas
1996
as Behrman ("The Last Leaf")

The Pride of Jesse Hallam
1981
as Sal Galucci

Rita
2003
as Self

The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
2020
as Osvaldo Altobello

The Gift of the Magi
1958
as Narrator

Eye of the Cat
1975
as Cesare

Vote and Die: Liszt for President
2008
as Joe Nightingale

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
as Self

The Education of Gore Vidal
2003
as Self

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992
as (voice)

For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Rafael

A Cold Night's Death
1973
as Frank Enari

Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
2010
as Mordechai Rossman (voice)

The Toe Tactic
2009
as Maestro
About Eli Wallach
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 w… With 215 credits spanning from 1948 to 2022, Eli Wallach has appeared in 160 films and 55 TV shows.
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Most Popular Eli Wallach Movies
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) — as Tuco Ramirez
- The Godfather Part III (1990) — as Don Altobello
- The Holiday (2006) — as Arthur
- The Magnificent Seven (1960) — as Calvera
- Mystic River (2003) — as Mr. Loonie (uncredited)
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