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.

Filmography

• 2015The Train — Andre
• 2010Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber — Mordechai Rossman (voice)
• 2010The Ghost Writer — Old man
• 2010Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps — Julie Steinhardt
• 2009In the Name of Democracy — Narrator
• Nurse Jackie — Bernard Zimberg
• 2009The Toe Tactic — Maestro
• 2008New York, I Love You — Abe
• 2008Vote and Die: Liszt for President — Joe Nightingale
• 2007Mama's Boy — Seymour Warburton
• The War — Narrator (voice)
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — Eli Weinraub
• 2006The Hoax — Noah Dietrich
• 2006The Holiday — Arthur
• 2005A Taste Of Jupiter — Arturo
• 2005The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation — Father
• 2004King of the Corner — Sol Spivak
• Stroker and Hoop — Narrator (voice)
• 2004The Easter Egg Adventure — Narrator (voice)
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• 2003Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip — Other Voices (voice)
• 2003Mystic River — Mr. Loonie (uncredited)
• Veritas: The Quest — Rabbi
• Whoopi — Norman
• 2002Monday Night Mayhem — Leonard Goldenson
• The Job — Mr. Weiss
• 2000Keeping the Faith — Rabbi Ben Lewis
• 2000The Bookfair Murders — Erich Schmidt
• 2000Uninvited — Alan Strasser
• 1998Naked City: Justice with a Bullet — Deluca
• 1997The Trial of Adolf Eichmann — Pinchas Freudiger / David Ben-Gurion (voices)
• 1996Honey Sweet Love — Don Siro
• 1996O. Henry's Christmas — Behrman ("The Last Leaf")
• 1996The Associate — Donald Fallon
• 1996The Search for Dracula — Narrator
• 1995Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey — Narrator
• 1995Two Much — Sheldon
• Baseball — Various (voice)
• ER — Mr. Langston
• 1994It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein — Narrator
• Vendetta II: The New Mafia — Frank Latella
• 1992Article 99 — Sam Abrams
• 1992Legacy of Lies — Moses Resnick
• 1992Lincoln — William Crook (voice)
• 1992Mistress — George Lieberhof
• 1992Night and the City — Peck
• 1992Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes — (voice)
• 1992Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems — (voice)
• 1992Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story — Bill Presser
• 1992The Donner Party — voice
• 1992The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 — Don Altobello
• 1991Terezin Diary — Narrator
• Law & Order — Simon Vilanis
• 1990The Godfather Part III — Don Altobello
• 1990The Two Jakes — Cotton Weinberger
• 1988An Empire of Reason — Anti-Federalist Spokesman
• 1987Nuts — Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
• 1987Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland — Narrator (voice)
• 1987The Impossible Spy — Yacov
• 1986Rocket to the Moon — Mr. Prince
• 1986Something in Common — Norman Voss
• 1986Tough Guys — Leon B. Little
• Worlds Beyond — Charles Burgess
• Christopher Columbus — Padre Fernando De Talavera
• 1985Embassy — Joe Verga
• 1985Murder: By Reason of Insanity — Dr. Huffman
• Our Family Honor — Vincent Danzig
• Screen Two — Yacov
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Yosef Kandinsky
• 1984Anatomy of an Illness — Dr. William Hitzig
• Highway to Heaven — Timothy Charles, Gene Malloy
• Murder, She Wrote — Salvatore Gambini
• 1984Sam's Son — Sam Orowitz
• American Playhouse — Mr. Prince
• 1982The Executioner's Song — Vern Damico
• The Executioner's Song — Vern Damico
• 1982The Wall — Mauritzi Apt
• 1981Skokie — Bert Silverman
• 1981The Pride of Jesse Hallam — Sal Galucci
• 1981The Salamander — General Leporello
• 1980Fugitive Family — Olan Vacio
• 1980Guri
• 1980The Hunter — Ritchie Blumenthal
• 1979Firepower — Sal Hyman
• Tales of the Unexpected — Gerry Williams
• 1979Winter Kills — Joe Diamond
• 1978Circle of Iron — Man-in-Oil
• 1978Girlfriends — Rabbi Gold
• 1978Little Italy — Don Gerolamo Giarra
• 1978Movie Movie — Vince Marlow / Pop
• 1977Nasty Habits — Monsignor
• Seventh Avenue — Gus Farber
• 1977The Deep — Adam Coffin
• 1977The Domino Principle — Gen. Reser
• The Pirate — Ben Ezra
• 1977The Sentinel — Detective Gatz
• 1976Independence — Benjamin Franklin
• 1976Plot of Fear — Peter Struwwel
• 1975Eye of the Cat — Cesare
• 1975The White, The Yellow, and The Black — Sheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack
• 1974Crazy Joe — Don Vittorio
• 1974Houston, We've Got a Problem — Narrator (voice)
• 1974Indict and Convict — DeWitt Foster
• 1973A Cold Night's Death — Frank Enari
• 1973Cinderella Liberty — Lynn Forshay
• Kojak — Lee Curtin
• Orson Welles' Great Mysteries — Fuzzy
• 1973Stateline Motel — Joe
• 1971Don't Turn the Other Cheek — Maz Lozoya
• 1971Paradise Lost — Leo Gordon
• 1971Romance of a Horsethief — Kifke
• 1971The Typists — Paul Cunningham
• 1970The Adventures of Gerard — Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1970The Angel Levine — Delicatessen Clerk
• 1970The People Next Door — Arthur Mason
• 1970The Reason Why — Charles
• 1970Zig Zag — Mario Gambretti
• 1969Mackenna's Gold — Ben Baker
• 1969The Brain — Frankie Scannapieco, Godfather of the Italian Mafia
• 1968A Lovely Way to Die — Tennessee Fredericks
• 1968Ace High — Cacopoulos
• 1968How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life — Harry Hunter
• 1967The Owl Who Gave a Hoot — Mr. Owl (voice)
• 1967The Tiger Makes Out — Ben Harris, Producer
• Batman — Mister Freeze
• CBS Playhouse — Douglas Lambert
• 1966How to Steal a Million — Davis Leland
• 1966The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Tuco Ramirez
• 1966The Poppy Is Also a Flower — 'Happy' Locarno
• 1965Genghis Khan — Shah of Khwarezm
• 1965Lord Jim — The General
• 1964Kisses for My President — Raphael Valdez Jr.
• 1964The Moon-Spinners — Stratos
• 1963Act One — Warren Stone
• 1963The Victors — Sgt. Craig
• 1962Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man — John
• 1962How the West Was Won — Charlie Gant
• The Dick Powell Show — Manny Jacobs
• 1961The Misfits — Guido
• 1960Lullaby — Johnny Horton
• Outlaws
• 1960Seven Thieves — Poncho
• 1960The Magnificent Seven — Calvera
• 1959For Whom the Bell Tolls — Rafael
• 1959I, Don Quixote — Sancho Panza / Cervantes' Manservant
• Naked City — Det. Peter Bane, Georgie
• Shirley Temple's Storybook — Simon
• 1958The Gift of the Magi — Narrator
• 1958The Lineup — Dancer
• 1958The Plot to Kill Stalin — Poskrebyshev
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse — Raymond Perez
• Suspicion
• 1957The Lark — Dauphin
• 1956Baby Doll — Silva Vacarro
• Playhouse 90 — Rafael
• Climax! — Albert Anastasia
• Omnibus
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Dauphin
• Lights Out — Giovanni
• Studio One — Ozep, Peter Hendon
• The Philco Television Playhouse — Nacho
• The Yidishe Gauchos — Narrator

Appearances as themselves (53)

• 2022Rat Pack — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Showing Up — Self
• 2008Il falso bugiardo — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Brando — Self
• 2006Baby Doll: See No Evil — Self
• 2006Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things — Self
• 2006The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven' — Self
• 2006The Real James Dean — Self
• 2005James Dean: Sense Memories — Self
• 2005Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool — Self
• 2004Leone's West — Self
• 2004Por un puñado de sueños — Self - Interviewee
• 2004Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly' — Self
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• 2003Rita — Self
• 2003The Education of Gore Vidal — Self
• 2003Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King — Self / Narrator
• 2002Cinerama Adventure — Self
• 2002Making 'The Misfits' — Self
• 2000Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows — Self
• 2000Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' — Self
• 1997Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years — Self
• 1996Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome — Self
• The West — Self
• 1995James Dean: A Portrait — Self
• 1995Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1994Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess — Self
• 1994Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed — Self
• 1994The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• 1991Coney Island — Self - Actor
• 1990Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret — Self
• 1990The Godfather Family: A Look Inside — Self / Don Altobello
• 1988Funny — Self
• 1988Hello Actors Studio — Self
• 1987Eve and Marilyn — Self (archive photo)
• 1987Hollywood Uncensored — Self
• 1987Hollywood's Favorite Heavy: Businessmen on Prime Time TV — Self - Host
• Reading Rainbow — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Wogan — Self
• 1980Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush — Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Hollywood Greats — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• The David Susskind Show — Self
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• What's My Line? — Self - Mystery Guest
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self