Eli Wallach was one of his generation’s most prominent and prolific character actors. Image: AFP
Highlights
- Eli Wallach, the actor who starred in the 1960s film classics The Magnificent Seven and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, has died. He was 98.
- Eli Wallach, who was one of his generation’s most prominent and prolific character actors, on stage and on television for more than 60 years, died on June 24, his daughter Katherine told The New York Times.
- No other details of his death were immediately available, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
- Eli Wallach, who won a Tony Award in 1951 for playing Alvaro in Tennessee Williams’ original production of The Rose Tattoo, made his movie debut as a cotton gin owner trying to seduce a virgin in Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll and worked steadily well into his nineties.
- “As an actor I’ve played more bandits, thieves, warlords, molesters and mafioso that you could shake a stick at,” Wallach said in November 2010 when he accepted an Honorary Academy Award at the second annual Governors Awards, becoming the oldest Oscar recipient.
- Among his survivors is actress and frequent co-star Anne Jackson, his wife of 66 years.
Eli Wallach, the actor who starred in the 1960s film classics
The Magnificent Seven and
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, has died. He was 98.
Eli Wallach, who was one of his generation's most prominent and prolific character actors, on stage and on television for more than 60 years, died on June 24, his daughter Katherine told The New York Times.
No other details of his death were immediately available, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
Eli Wallach, who won a Tony Award in 1951 for playing Alvaro in Tennessee Williams' original production of
The Rose Tattoo, made his movie debut as a cotton gin owner trying to seduce a virgin in Elia Kazan's
Baby Doll and worked steadily well into his nineties.
"As an actor I've played more bandits, thieves, warlords, molesters and mafioso that you could shake a stick at," Wallach said in November 2010 when he accepted an Honorary Academy Award at the second annual Governors Awards, becoming the oldest Oscar recipient.
Among his survivors is actress and frequent co-star Anne Jackson, his wife of 66 years.