Eli Wallach
Birthday: 1915-12-07
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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The Godfather Part III
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Mystic River
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The Magnificent Seven
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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The Holiday
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How to Steal a Million
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The Victors
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Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
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Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
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Genghis Khan
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The Deep
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Tough Guys
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The Hunter
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The Misfits
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Lord Jim
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The Ghost Writer
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Article 99
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Circle of Iron
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Ace High
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The Lineup
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How the West Was Won
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The Domino Principle
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A Taste Of Jupiter
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Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
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Mama's Boy
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Baby Doll
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Nuts
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Winter Kills
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Night and the City
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The Moon-Spinners
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The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
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Plot of Fear
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Seven Thieves
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Firepower
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Mackenna's Gold
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The Sentinel
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Rocket to the Moon
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Hollywood Uncensored
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The Executioner's Song
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Crazy Joe
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Mistress
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Guri
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The Lark
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Cinderella Liberty
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Movie Movie
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Shoot First… Ask Questions Later
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Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
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The Easter Egg Adventure
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A Lovely Way to Die
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Sam's Son
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A Cold Night's Death
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The People Next Door
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The Donner Party
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Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
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Nasty Habits
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Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
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Monday Night Mayhem
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Act One
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How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
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Kisses for My President
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Cinerama Adventure
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The Adventures of Gerard
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The Tiger Makes Out
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Showing Up
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Skokie
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Hello Actors Studio
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The Angel Levine
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The Brain
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Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity ...
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Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
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Anatomy of an Illness
Biopic of Saturday Review editor and political journalist Norman Cousins who developed and promoted ...
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The Salamander
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Stateline Motel
After robbing a jewelry shop in Canada, two Americans arrange a meeting near the US borders in order...
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Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'
Overview of the initial edits and cuts to the film and effort made to restore the missing footage...
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Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and...
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Eye of the Cat
Biting, sadistic satire punctuates this dark comedy about a feckless musician named Marcello Ferrari...
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New York, I Love You
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Rat Pack
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The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, San...
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The Education of Gore Vidal
A contrarian and wickedly funny man, this PBS American Masters special explores Gore Vidal's extraor...
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
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Paradise Lost
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Embassy
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The Plot to Kill Stalin
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Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Take a nostalgic ride through movie history and relive the glory days of the Western -- when kids sp...
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James Dean: Sense Memories
Documentary exploring the last 18 months of James Dean's acting career....
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Vote and Die: Liszt for President
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Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures....
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Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland
The incredible story of the 1985 bar mitzvah of American Eric Strom in Cracow, the first bar mitzvah...
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
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Legacy of Lies
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The Pirate
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he...
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Little Italy
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An Empire of Reason
Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constituti...
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The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
A documentary on the making of the three Godfather films, with interviews and recollections from the...
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Coney Island
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of...
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The Train
A meeting with a holocaust survivor teaches a self-consumed and preoccupied young man that life can ...
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Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared,...
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The Hoax
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hu...
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
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Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
An account of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood's most famous and glamorous mo...
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I, Don Quixote
The original TV play which evolved into the hit musical, "Man of La Mancha"....
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Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
A documentary about 'The Magnificent Seven'....
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Indict and Convict
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Honey Sweet Love
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The Search for Dracula
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The Pride of Jesse Hallam
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O. Henry's Christmas
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Fugitive Family
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Leone's West
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The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
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The Typists
Real-life couple Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star in this 1971 television adaptation of Murray Schi...
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Lullaby
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Making 'The Misfits'
A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961)....
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Il falso bugiardo
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The Real James Dean
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Por un puñado de sueños
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The Wall
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Something in Common
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Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
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Baby Doll: See No Evil
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Lincoln
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civ...
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King of the Corner
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Independence
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The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
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Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
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The Owl Who Gave a Hoot
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James Dean: A Portrait
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In the Name of Democracy
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The Yidishe Gauchos
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