[RIP] Eli Wallach

tallanvor · Jun 25, 2014

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-eli-wallach-20140625-story.html#page=1

Eli Wallach, a veteran stage, screen and television actor who was closely identified with Tennessee Williams' plays on the New York stage but gained fame in Hollywood for a string of films in which he specialized in playing bandits, thieves, mafia dons and other criminals, has died. He was 98.
Wallach, who received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 2010, died at 4:47 p.m. Tuesday in the family's home in New York City, according to his daughter Katherine. The cause was not given.
Wallach won a Tony award in 1951 for his performance opposite Maureen Stapleton in Williams' “The Rose Tattoo” and also starred on Broadway in the playwright's “Camino Real” and off Broadway in Williams' “This Property Is Condemned.”

But, though he returned to the stage all of his long professional life, Wallach was more widely known for his films. Among his better-known roles were Carroll Baker's sleazy lover in Williams' “Baby Doll” (1956), directed by Elia Kazan; the roustabout Guido in John Huston's “The Misfits” (1961), which was based on Arthur Miller's screenplay and notable for being the last film of both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe; and art collector Davis Leland in 1966's “How to Steal a Million,” in which he starred with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.
But he was probably most famous for his roles in two westerns: “The Magnificent Seven” (1960), the classic John Sturges western in which he played not one of the seven gunfighters holding off a gang of thieves but Calvera, the head of a Mexican gang; and “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Sergio Leone's 1966 western in which Clint Eastwood was “the good,” Lee Van Cleef was “the bad” and Wallach was “the ugly” Tuco.
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VanityHalfBlack · Jun 25, 2014

One of the greatest movies ever made, R.I.P

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VanityHalfBlack · Jun 25, 2014

Come on CF, you guys should know who this is!

TheresTheDagger · Jun 25, 2014

"Blessed is the peacemaker, for he can be called a child of God."
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B-Bob · Jun 25, 2014

RIP to a cornerstone of a by-gone movie era.

FranchiseBlade · Jun 25, 2014

What a shame. Honestly, I hadn't kept up with him lately, but I was a fan of his acting from old movies. I didn't know that he was still alive.

He created great characters.

RIP

VanityHalfBlack · Jun 25, 2014

Coach AI · Jun 25, 2014

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