Eli Wallach

Acting

Born: 1915-12-07

Died: 2014-06-24

From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Popularity: 1.8

Also Known As

Ely Wallach엘리 웰라치Елай ВоллакEli Herschel Wallachایلی 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.

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Awards & Nominations12 won · 8 nominated

🏆 Won

Academy Honorary Award

2010

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Nurse Jackie

2010

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

2007

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

1998

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

1993

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie

1987

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

1967

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

1967

🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Baby Doll

1957

Nominated

BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Baby Doll

1957

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

Baby Doll

1956

🏆 Won

Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

1951

🏆 Won

Theatre World Award

1951

🏆 Won

World War II Victory Medal

🏆 Won

European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal

🏆 Won

American Campaign Medal

🏆 Won

Good Conduct Medal

🏆 Won

Ellis Island Medal of Honor

🏆 Won

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal

🏆 Won

Donaldson Awards

Eli Wallach

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations12 won · 8 nominated

Acting205 titles

Rocket to the Moon

The Reason Why

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

Showing Up

Rat Pack

Paradise Lost

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

Honey Sweet Love

Independence

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Whoopi

The Education of Gore Vidal

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The West

Rita

The Search for Dracula

Reading Rainbow

The War

The Gift of the Magi

Funny

Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

Legacy of Lies

Coney Island

Indict and Convict

Fugitive Family

The Typists

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

ER

Mystic River

Zig Zag

Cinerama Adventure

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Our Family Honor

Kisses for My President

Inside the Actors Studio

Playhouse 90

The Magnificent Seven

How to Steal a Million

Houston, We've Got a Problem

The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters

Murder, She Wrote

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Baseball

The Godfather Part III

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Highway to Heaven

The Brain

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Law & Order

Batman

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Kojak

The Holiday

The Lineup

Nurse Jackie

Screen Two

The Misfits

How the West Was Won

Baby Doll

The Easter Egg Adventure

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

The Donner Party

Anatomy of an Illness

The Train

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

Leone's West