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Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American film, TV and stage actor. Wallach was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Polish-Jewish family. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and received a Masters of Arts from The City College of New York. He however, gained his first method experience at the Neighborhood Playhouse.

He served as a staff sergeant in Hawaii in a military hospital in the United States Army in World War II. However, soon he was sent to Officer Candidate School in Abilene, Texas to undergo training to become a medical administrative officer. He graduated as a Second Lieutenant and was sent to Madison Barracks in New York, where he was promptly shipped to Casablanca and, later in the war, to France. It was there that a superior discovered his acting history and asked him to form a show for the patients. He and other members from his unit wrote a play called Is This the Army?, which was inspired by Irving Berlin's This is the Army. In the comedic play Wallach and the other men clowned around as various dictators, Eli himself portraying Hitler.

Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo. Additional theatre credits include Mister Roberts, The Teahouse of the August Moon, Major Barbara, Luv, and Staircase, co-starring Milo O'Shea, which depicted an aging homosexual couple in a serious way.

Wallach's film debut was in Elia Kazan's controversial Baby Doll and he went on to have a prolific career in films, although rarely in a starring role. Other early films include The Misfits, The Magnificent Seven and as Tuco (the 'Ugly') in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He has been married to acclaimed stage actress Anne Jackson (born 1926) since March 5, 1948, and they have three children: Peter, Katherine and Roberta. His autobiography, "The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage" was published in 2005.

In 2006, Wallach made a guest appearance on the NBC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, playing a former writer who was blacklisted in the 1950s. His character was a writer on "The Philco Comedy Hour", a comedy show that aired on the fictional NBS network. This is a reference to The Philco Television Playhouse, several episodes of which Wallach actually appeared on in 1955.


Filmography

* Baby Doll (1956)
* The Lineup (1958)
* Seven Thieves (1960)
* The Magnificent Seven (1960)
* The Misfits (1961)
* Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
* How the West Was Won (1962)
* The Victors (1963)
* Act One (1963)
* The Moon-Spinners (1964)
* Kisses for My President (1964)
* Lord Jim (1965)
* Genghis Khan (1965)
* The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
* How to Steal a Million (1966)
* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
* The Tiger Makes Out (1967) (also producer)
* Ace High (1968)
* How to Save a Marriage (and Ruin Your Life) (1968)
* A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
* The Brain (1969)
* Mackenna's Gold (1969)
* The Adventures of Gerard (1970)
* The Angel Levine (1970)
* The People Next Door (1970)
* Zigzag (1970)
* Romance of a Horsethief (1971)
* Long Live Your Death (1971)
* Cinderella Liberty (1973)
* Crazy Joe (1974)
* The Dream Factory (1975) (documentary) (narrator)
* Stateline Motel (1975)
* Shoot First... Ask Questions Later (1975)
* L'chaim: To Life (1975) (documentary) (narrator)
* Plot of Fear (1976)
* Eye of the Cat (1976)
* Independence (1976)
* The Sentinel (1977)
* The Deep (1977)
* The Domino Principle (1977)
* Nasty Habits (1977)
* Little Italy (1978)
* Girlfriends (1978)
* Movie Movie (1978)
* Circle of Iron (1978)
* Firepower (1979)
* Winter Kills (1979)
* The Hunter (1980)
* The Salamander (1981)
* Sam's Son (1984)
* Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1985) (documentary)
* Tough Guys (1986)
* The Impossible Spy (1987)
* Hollywood Uncensored (1987) (documentary)
* Nuts (1987)
* Funny (1989) (documentary)
* The Two Jakes (1990)
* The Godfather: Part III (1990)
* Article 99 (1992)
* Mistress (1992)
* Night and the City (1992)
* Honey Sweet Love (1994)
* Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey (1995) (documentary) (narrator)
* Two Much (1995)
* The Associate (1996)
* Uninvited (1999)
* Keeping the Faith (2000)
* Cinerama Adventure (2002) (documentary)
* Advice and Dissent (2002) (short subject)
* The Root (2003)
* Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary)
* Mystic River (2003) (Cameo)
* King of the Corner (2004)
* The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (2005) (short subject) (voice)
* The Easter Egg Adventure (2005) (narrator)
* The Holiday (2006)

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