
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

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

ER
1994
as Mr. Langston

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Salvatore Gambini

Great Performances
1971
as Self

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter

Batman
1966
as Mister Freeze

Climax!
1954
as Albert Anastasia

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

The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Nacho

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

Wogan
1982
as Self

Naked City
1958
as Det. Peter Bane / Georgie

Studio One
1948
as Ozep / Peter Hendon

Highway to Heaven
1984
as Timothy Charles / Gene Malloy

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Gerry Williams

Screen Two
1985
as Yacov

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self

Kojak
1973
as Lee Curtin

Omnibus
1952

Lights Out
1949
as Giovanni

Nurse Jackie
2009
as Bernard Zimberg

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as Yosef Kandinsky
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self

Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
as Self

Playhouse 90
1956
as Rafael

Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
as Simon

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
as Raymond Perez

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
as Eli Weinraub

American Playhouse
1982
as Mr. Prince

Outlaws
1960

Suspicion
1957

Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)
CBS Playhouse
1966
as Douglas Lambert

The Job
2001
as Mr. Weiss

The Dick Powell Show
1961
as Manny Jacobs

Whoopi
2003
as Norman

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Fuzzy

Stroker and Hoop
2004
as Narrator (voice)

Veritas: The Quest
2003
as Rabbi

The David Susskind Show
1959
as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dauphin

The Hollywood Greats
1977
as Self

The West
1996
as Self

The War
2007
as Narrator (voice)

Worlds Beyond
1986
as Charles Burgess

Our Family Honor
1985
as Vincent Danzig

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 Magnificent Seven
1960
as Calvera

Mystic River
2003
as Mr. Loonie (uncredited)

The Holiday
2006
as Arthur

New York, I Love You
2008
as Abe

The Misfits
1961
as Guido

How the West Was Won
1962
as Charlie Gant

The Sentinel
1977
as Detective Gatz

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
as Julie Steinhardt

The Associate
1996
as Donald Fallon

The Deep
1977
as Adam Coffin

The Ghost Writer
2010
as Old man

How to Steal a Million
1966
as Davis Leland

Mackenna's Gold
1969
as Ben Baker

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

Lord Jim
1965
as The General

The Two Jakes
1990
as Cotton Weinberger

Article 99
1992
as Sam Abrams

The Hoax
2006
as Noah Dietrich

Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)

Nuts
1987
as Dr. Herbert A. Morrison

The Hunter
1980
as Ritchie Blumenthal

Genghis Khan
1965
as Shah of Khwarezm

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
as John

Two Much
1995
as Sheldon

Baby Doll
1956
as Silva Vacarro

Mistress
1992
as George Lieberhof

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

Keeping the Faith
2000
as Rabbi Ben Lewis

Nasty Habits
1977
as Monsignor

Independence
1976
as Benjamin Franklin

The Executioner's Song
1982
as Vern Damico

Winter Kills
1979
as Joe Diamond

Ace High
1968
as Cacopoulos

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

Tough Guys
1986
as Leon B. Little

Showing Up
2014
as Self

Funny
1988
as Self

Hello Actors Studio
1988
as Self

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

Firepower
1979
as Sal Hyman

Stateline Motel
1973
as Joe

Fugitive Family
1980
as Olan Vacio

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

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992
as (voice)

Don't Turn the Other Cheek
1971
as Maz Lozoya

Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1985
as Dr. Huffman

Brando
2007
as Self

Mama's Boy
2007
as Seymour Warburton

The Moon-Spinners
1964
as Stratos

Rita
2003
as Self

The Victors
1963
as Sgt. Craig

The Domino Principle
1977
as Gen. Reser

Hollywood Uncensored
1987
as Self

The Pirate
1978
as Ben Ezra

Circle of Iron
1978
as Man-in-Oil

Eye of the Cat
1975
as Cesare

Embassy
1985
as Joe Verga
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
as Self

The White, The Yellow, and The Black
1975
as Sheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack

Zig Zag
1970
as Mario Gambretti

Movie Movie
1978
as Vince Marlow / Pop

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
as Self

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

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

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

Crazy Joe
1974
as Don Vittorio

Night and the City
1992
as Peck

Girlfriends
1978
as Rabbi Gold
Lincoln
1992
as William Crook (voice)

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
2005
as Self

The Toe Tactic
2009
as Maestro

A Lovely Way to Die
1968
as Tennessee Fredericks

King of the Corner
2004
as Sol Spivak

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
as Deluca

The Salamander
1981
as General Leporello

Monday Night Mayhem
2002
as Leonard Goldenson

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

Vendetta II: The New Mafia
1993
as Frank Latella

Skokie
1981
as Bert Silverman

The Impossible Spy
1987
as Yacov

The Gift of the Magi
1958
as Narrator

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

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

Cinderella Liberty
1973
as Lynn Forshay

Sam's Son
1984
as Sam Orowitz

The Pride of Jesse Hallam
1981
as Sal Galucci

A Cold Night's Death
1973
as Frank Enari

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

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

Plot of Fear
1976
as Peter Struwwel

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992
as Bill Presser

The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
as Poskrebyshev

The People Next Door
1970
as Arthur Mason

Kisses for My President
1964
as Raphael Valdez Jr.

The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'
2006
as Self

Seven Thieves
1960
as Poncho

Act One
1963
as Warren Stone

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

The Angel Levine
1970
as Delicatessen Clerk

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997
as Self

Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
1994
as Self

Little Italy
1978
as Don Gerolamo Giarra

The Tiger Makes Out
1967
as Ben Harris

Coney Island
1991
as Self - Actor

The Lineup
1958
as Dancer

Anatomy of an Illness
1984
as Dr. William Hitzig

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
as Self

Paradise Lost
1971
as Leo Gordon

Making 'The Misfits'
2002
as Self

Indict and Convict
1974
as DeWitt Foster

Romance of a Horsethief
1971
as Kifke

For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Rafael

The Easter Egg Adventure
2004
as Narrator (voice)

Honey Sweet Love
1996
as Don Siro

The Lark
1957
as Dauphin

The Adventures of Gerard
1970
as Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
as Self
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 Magnificent Seven (1960) — as Calvera
- Mystic River (2003) — as Mr. Loonie (uncredited)
- The Holiday (2006) — as Arthur
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