Eli Wallach Overview:

Character actor, Eli Wallach, was born Eli Herschel Wallach on Dec 7, 1915 in Brooklyn, NY. Wallach died at the age of 98 on Jun 24, 2014 in Manhattan, NY .

MINI BIO:

Dark-haired, plum-nosed American actor who always looked like he was about to say something forceful, even when he wasn't. Started sensationally in Baby Doll (after nearly 20 years as a stage actor), then played extrovert villains, with some nicely-played light comedy roles thrown in, sometimes opposite his wife, Anne Jackson (married 1948). The rasping voice was redolent of his native Brooklyn.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

HONORS and AWARDS:

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However he won one Honorary Award in 2010 for a lifetime's worth of indelible screen characters .

BlogHub Articles:

Remembering + 5 of His Films

By Will McKinley on Jun 26, 2014 From Cinematically Insane

Sometime in the mid-1990s, on the corner of 82nd Street and Riverside Drive, I stopped to gawk at an icon. “Yes, it’s me,” said, apparently accustomed to silent, slack-jawed admirers on New York City street corners. He?greeted me with a smile, shook my hand, and patted ... Read full article


God Speed (1915-2014)

By Raquel Stecher on Jun 26, 2014 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog

What’s not to love about ? He could play despicable characters and still be utterly charming. And over the years his charisma grew and as an old man he was just adorable in both a sweet way and one that just lent itself to adoration. is one of my favorite actors and I... Read full article


1915 – 2014

By Marisa on Jun 25, 2014 From The Timothy Carey Experience

Carey’s final project as a film director is Godfarter III (1989), an audition piece for [Francis Ford] Coppola, who was looking to cast the role of an elderly Mafia don for The Godfather: Part III (1990). Coppola considered Carey too young for the part (and may also have been put off by Carey&... Read full article


'Til Death Do Us Part ~ and Anne Jackson

By Google profile on Jun 17, 2012 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. and Anne Jackson Married 64 years and counting Both Wallach and Jackson are method actors who met during a theater production of This Property is Condemned in 1946. ... Read full article


Stars & Their Hobbies ~

By Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog

"Let me tell you a little about myself. As an actor I've played more bandits, thieves, killers, war lords, molesters and mafiose that you can shake a stick at... As a civilian I collect antique clocks, tell endless stories of my days as a medic in World War II, watch every tennis match, live for my ... Read full article


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Eli Wallach Quotes:

Calvera: Generosity... that was my first mistake. I leave these people a little bit extra, and then they hire these men to make trouble. It shows you, sooner or later, you must answer for every good deed.


Calvera: [dying - to Chris] You came back - for a place like this. Why? A man like you. Why?


Calvera: If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.


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Eli Wallach Facts
Was almost killed during the train scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). He was asked by Sergio Leone to do the scene again, and he then replied: "I'll never do that again!"

In the "Murder, She Wrote" (1984) episode "A Good Year for Murder", he played a dying man, Salatore Gambini, who committed a murder because he had nothing to lose. In the "Law & Order" (1990) episode "The Working Stiff", he played a character, Simon Vilanis, who was suspected of committing a murder for the same reason although he ultimately proved to be innocent.

Is blind in the left eye due to a stroke.

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