RIP Eli Wallach

[JohnnyTheFox]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/movies/eli-wallach-multifaceted-actor-dies-at-98.html

Eli Wallach, who was one of his generation’s most prominent and prolific character actors in film, onstage and on television for more than 60 years, died on Tuesday. He was 98.

His death was confirmed by his daughter Katherine.

A self-styled journeyman actor, the versatile Mr. Wallach appeared in scores of roles, often with his wife, Anne Jackson. No matter the part, he always seemed at ease and in control, whether playing a Mexican bandit in the 1960 western “The Magnificent Seven,” a bumbling clerk in Ionesco’s allegorical play “Rhinoceros,” a henpecked French general in Jean Anouilh’s “Waltz of the Toreadors,” Clark Gable’s sidekick in “The Misfits” or a Mafia don in “The Godfather: Part III.”

 

[Bonecrusher#31]

My favorite role he played...Tuco

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

My favorite role he played...Tuco

Mine too.

 

[burmafrd]

98. And was working until fairly recently. That is about as much as anyone could ever expect. Talking about someone who had a total life you are talking Eli Wallach.

 

[DallasEast]

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1915 - 2014
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Mrs. Meighan, your husband sweats more than any man I know and now I can understand why.
Silva Vacarro (Baby Doll)

Generosity. That was my first mistake. I leave these people a little bit extra, and then they hire these men to make trouble. It shows you, sooner or later, you must answer for every good deed.
Calvera (The Magnificent Seven)

She's crazy. They're all crazy. You try not to believe it cause you need them. She's crazy. You struggle, you build, you try, you turn yourself inside out for 'em but its never enough. So they put the spurs to you. I know, I got the marks. I know this racket, I just forgot what I knew for a while.
Guido (The Misfits)

There's only one kind of peace I know of, Marshal. That's the kind my brother's got.
Charlie Gant (How The West Was Won)

So don't worry, I just need a small amount. Just enough for the bare necessities. Well, no. Money corrupts men, it softens him. So to keep you young and pure, I think I'll take everything.
Cacopoulos (Ace High)

There are two kinds of spurs, my friend. Those that come in by the door; those that come in by the window.
Tuco (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)

I've lost the lust for women, and now my mind is clear.
Don Altobello (The Godfather Part III)

Say a man and a woman both need something to sleep in and both go to the same men's pajama department. The man says to the salesman, "I just need bottoms," and the woman says, "I just need a top." They look at each other and that's the "meet cute."
Arthur Abbott (The Holiday)

Rest in peace, Tuco.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Wow he sure had a full life! RIP.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Almost 100 years... What he saw, went through... Evolution of the times/world. That's something.

I liked him as that sneak Don Altobello.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

RIP.

If anything, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" was his film.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Don Altobello in GF. He should have left the Canollies and taken the gun.

Tuko was my favorite role of his as well.

RIP Eli Herschel Wallach.

 

[jubal]

And another good one rides away.
R.I.P. mister Wallach

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I read someplace that not long ago, both Eli and Clint Eastwood went into the studio and added some new audio to "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly". Supposedly there were scenes that didn't make the final cut that needed audio to be complete. One scene had to do with how the "Angel Eyes" character ended up in the Union Army.

 

[burmafrd]

Almost 100 years... What he saw, went through... Evolution of the times/world. That's something.

I liked him as that sneak Don Altobello.

That is something to think about as well. He was born in 1918, I think. LAST year of the First World War. He came of age during the great depression. Saw WW2 and everything after that. Watched the world change in ways no one who was born at that time could have imagined.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

That is something to think about as well. He was born in 1918, I think. LAST year of the First World War. He came of age during the great depression. Saw WW2 and everything after that. Watched the world change in ways no one who was born at that time could have imagined.

1915

Agreed. The wars... All of them, Vietnam, Great Depression, radio, then b/w tv then color tv, Hiroshima, Pearl Harbor, Kennedy assignation, rise and evolution of internet, cell phones, video conferencing, 9/11.....

The world through his eyes... Wonder if he ever did a memoir/book?

 

[CowboyGil]

My favorite role he played...Tuco

"Don't leave me here Blondie!!"

 

[MichaelWinicki]

"Don't leave me here Blondie!!"

"You're the son of a thousand fathers! All bastids just like you!"