Eli Wallach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Eli Wallach

American film, television and stage actor

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1915

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 24-Jun-2014

Profession: actor, character actor, stage actor, film producer, television actor, film actor, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Eli Wallach

  • Eli Herschel Wallach (; December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s.
  • Trained in stage acting, which he enjoyed doing most, he became "one of the greatest 'character actors' ever to appear on stage and screen", with over 90 film credits.
  • He and his wife Anne Jackson often appeared together on stage, and were one of the best-known acting couples in American theater.
  • As a stage and screen character actor, Wallach had one of the longest-ever careers in show business, spanning 62 years from his Broadway debut to his last two major Hollywood studio movies (which were released in the same year). Wallach initially studied method acting under Sanford Meisner, and later became a founding member of the Actors Studio, where he studied under Lee Strasberg.
  • He played a wide variety of roles throughout his career, primarily as a supporting actor. For his debut screen performance in Baby Doll (1956), he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe Award nomination.
  • Among his other most famous roles are Calvera in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Guido in The Misfits (1961), and Tuco ("The Ugly") in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Other notable portrayals include outlaw Charlie Gant in How the West Was Won (1962), Hitman Leon B.
  • Little in Tough Guys (1986), Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III, Cotton Weinberger in The Two Jakes (both 1990), and Arthur Abbott in The Holiday (2006).
  • One of America's most prolific screen actors, Wallach remained active well into his nineties, with roles as recently as 2010 in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Ghost Writer. In 1988, Wallach was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
  • He received BAFTA Awards, Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, and an Academy Honorary Award at the second annual Governors Awards on November 13, 2010. In March 2017, the Harry Ransom Center announced the acquisition of Wallach's papers, along with those of his wife.
  • They will be made public when cataloging is complete.

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