Personal Info
Birthday
December 7, 1915
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Acting
Eli Wallach
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.
Acting Filmography (206)
9.0
Rat Pack
Movie2022
10.0
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
Movie2020
No Backdrop
7.0
The Train
Movie2015
9.2
Showing Up
Movie2014
6.1
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Movie2010
No Backdrop
8.0
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
Movie2010
6.8
The Ghost Writer
Movie2010
7.1
Nurse Jackie
TV Series2009
No Backdrop
0.0
In the Name of Democracy
Movie2009
No Backdrop
4.0
The Toe Tactic
Movie2009
6.0
New York, I Love You
Movie2008
No Backdrop
0.0
Il falso bugiardo
Movie2008
No Backdrop
1.0
Vote and Die: Liszt for President
Movie2008
4.6
Mama's Boy
Movie2007
8.1
The War
TV Series2007
6.8
Brando
Movie2007
7.1
The Holiday
Movie2006
6.3
The Hoax
Movie2006
7.4
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
TV Series2006
No Backdrop
0.0
The Real James Dean
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
Baby Doll: See No Evil
Movie2006
9.6
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'
Movie2006
4.2
A Taste Of Jupiter
Movie2005
5.9
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
Movie2005
0.0
James Dean: Sense Memories
Movie2005
6.3
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Movie2005
7.0
The Easter Egg Adventure
Movie2004
7.2
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Movie2004
5.7
Stroker and Hoop
TV Series2004
No Backdrop
5.9
King of the Corner
Movie2004
No Backdrop
0.0
Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'
Movie2004
No Backdrop
7.0
Leone's West
Movie2004
No Backdrop
0.0
Por un puñado de sueños
Movie2004
7.7
Mystic River
Movie2003
7.7
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Movie2003
No Backdrop
8.3
Rita
Movie2003
No Backdrop
8.8
Whoopi
TV Series2003
8.7
The Education of Gore Vidal
Movie2003
7.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie2003
6.7
Veritas: The Quest
TV Series2003
No Backdrop
9.0
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Movie2003
No Backdrop
7.0
Making 'The Misfits'
Movie2002
No Backdrop
7.7
Cinerama Adventure
Movie2002
6.0
Monday Night Mayhem
Movie2002
6.7
The Job
TV Series2001
No Backdrop
7.3
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie2000
5.3
Uninvited
Movie2000
No Backdrop
7.0
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
Movie2000
6.1
Keeping the Faith
Movie2000
No Backdrop
5.6
The Bookfair Murders
Movie2000
4.2
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Movie1998
No Backdrop
5.6
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Movie1997
No Backdrop
7.2
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
Movie1997
6.3
The Associate
Movie1996
8.4
The West
TV Series1996
No Backdrop
5.0
O. Henry's Christmas
Movie1996
No Backdrop
9.0
Honey Sweet Love
Movie1996
No Backdrop
9.0
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Movie1996
No Backdrop
8.3
The Search for Dracula
Movie1996
5.5
Two Much
Movie1995
No Backdrop
7.0
James Dean: A Portrait
Movie1995
No Backdrop
6.1
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Movie1995
No Backdrop
8.5
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
Movie1995
No Backdrop
8.8
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Movie1994
No Backdrop
6.9
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
Movie1994
7.8
ER
TV Series1994
7.5
Baseball
TV Series1994
7.6
Inside the Actors Studio
TV Series1994
No Backdrop
7.5
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
Movie1994
6.3
Vendetta II: The New Mafia
Movie1993
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV Series1993
7.0
The Donner Party
Movie1992
8.9
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Movie1992
5.8
Night and the City
Movie1992
No Backdrop
5.8
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
Movie1992
5.5
Mistress
Movie1992
No Backdrop
8.0
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
Movie1992
No Backdrop
8.0
Legacy of Lies
Movie1992
6.2
Article 99
Movie1992
No Backdrop
8.0
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
Movie1992
8.0
Coney Island
Movie1991
7.4
The Godfather Part III
Movie1990
7.3
Law & Order
TV Series1990
6.0
The Two Jakes
Movie1990
7.8
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Movie1990
6.7
Hello Actors Studio
Movie1988
0.0
An Empire of Reason
Movie1988
No Backdrop
8.0
Funny
Movie1988
5.4
Hollywood Uncensored
Movie1987
5.9
The Impossible Spy
Movie1987
6.3
Nuts
Movie1987
0.0
Hollywood's Favorite Heavy: Businessmen on Prime Time TV
Movie1987
6.0
Something in Common
Movie1986
No Backdrop
5.8
Worlds Beyond
TV Series1986
6.0
Tough Guys
Movie1986
No Backdrop
10.0
Rocket to the Moon
Movie1986
5.7
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Movie1985
7.2
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV Series1985
No Backdrop
7.7
Our Family Honor
TV Series1985
No Backdrop
5.0
Embassy
Movie1985
6.2
Christopher Columbus
TV Series1985
7.1
Screen Two
TV Series1985
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
TV Series1984
7.4
Highway to Heaven
TV Series1984
6.5
Sam's Son
Movie1984
No Backdrop
7.0
Anatomy of an Illness
Movie1984
8.3
Reading Rainbow
TV Series1983
0.0
The Executioner's Song
TV Series1982
5.8
The Executioner's Song
Movie1982
5.3
Wogan
TV Series1982
6.8
The Wall
Movie1982
6.6
American Playhouse
TV Series1982
6.0
Skokie
Movie1981
5.5
The Salamander
Movie1981
5.4
The Pride of Jesse Hallam
Movie1981
8.0
Fugitive Family
Movie1980
No Backdrop
0.0
Guri
Movie1980
5.9
The Hunter
Movie1980
No Backdrop
0.0
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
Movie1980
5.8
Winter Kills
Movie1979
5.0
Firepower
Movie1979
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
TV Series1979
4.5
The Pirate
Movie1978
6.0
Movie Movie
Movie1978
6.2
Little Italy
Movie1978
6.7
Girlfriends
Movie1978
5.5
Circle of Iron
Movie1978
No Backdrop
5.0
The Pirate
TV Series1977
No Backdrop
4.7
The Hollywood Greats
TV Series1977
6.1
The Deep
Movie1977
5.9
The Domino Principle
Movie1977
7.0
Seventh Avenue
TV Series1977
5.0
Nasty Habits
Movie1977
6.1
The Sentinel
Movie1977
5.5
Plot of Fear
Movie1976
No Backdrop
9.0
Independence
Movie1976
4.3
Eye of the Cat
Movie1975
5.8
The White, The Yellow, and The Black
Movie1975
No Backdrop
7.5
Houston, We've Got a Problem
Movie1974
6.6
Crazy Joe
Movie1974
5.0
Indict and Convict
Movie1974
6.7
Cinderella Liberty
Movie1973
7.2
Kojak
TV Series1973
5.3
Stateline Motel
Movie1973
6.8
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TV Series1973
6.1
A Cold Night's Death
Movie1973
5.6
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
Movie1971
No Backdrop
8.0
The Typists
Movie1971
4.0
Romance of a Horsethief
Movie1971
No Backdrop
9.0
Paradise Lost
Movie1971
6.1
Great Performances
TV Series1971
5.9
The People Next Door
Movie1970
5.4
The Angel Levine
Movie1970
5.9
The Adventures of Gerard
Movie1970
7.7
Zig Zag
Movie1970
10.0
The Reason Why
Movie1970
6.6
Mackenna's Gold
Movie1969
7.3
The Brain
Movie1969
6.5
Ace High
Movie1968
4.8
A Lovely Way to Die
Movie1968
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV Series1968
5.7
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Movie1968
No Backdrop
5.0
The Tiger Makes Out
Movie1967
8.5
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Movie1966
7.5
How to Steal a Million
Movie1966
6.1
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Movie1966
7.3
Batman
TV Series1966
5.8
Genghis Khan
Movie1965
6.8
Lord Jim
Movie1965
7.6
Kisses for My President
Movie1964
5.8
The Moon-Spinners
Movie1964
6.3
Act One
Movie1963
6.4
The Victors
Movie1963
7.0
How the West Was Won
Movie1962
No Backdrop
6.6
The Merv Griffin Show
TV Series1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV Series1962
5.5
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Movie1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
TV Series1961
No Backdrop
5.7
The Dick Powell Show
TV Series1961
7.0
The Misfits
Movie1961
7.5
The Magnificent Seven
Movie1960
6.7
Outlaws
TV Series1960
6.6
Seven Thieves
Movie1960
No Backdrop
7.0
Lullaby
Movie1960
No Backdrop
0.0
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie1959
7.0
The David Susskind Show
TV Series1959
No Backdrop
8.0
The Gift of the Magi
Movie1958
No Backdrop
6.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV Series1958
5.7
Naked City
TV Series1958
No Backdrop
0.0
The Plot to Kill Stalin
Movie1958
7.1
The Lineup
Movie1958
No Backdrop
6.5
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV Series1958
No Backdrop
6.2
Suspicion
TV Series1957
0.0
The Lark
Movie1957
7.1
Baby Doll
Movie1956
7.6
Playhouse 90
TV Series1956
No Backdrop
0.0
Tony Awards
TV Series1956
3.8
Climax!
TV Series1954
No Backdrop
6.3
Omnibus
TV Series1952
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV Series1951
7.0
What's My Line?
TV Series1950
No Backdrop
6.0
Lights Out
TV Series1949
5.4
Studio One
TV Series1948
6.6
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV Series1948
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV Series1948