NEW YORK – Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immortality as a conniving, ...

This is FRESH AIR. Eli Wallach already had played villains in Westerns before he appeared opposite Clint Eastwood as Tuco in "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly." Tuco was the ugly one and also was one of ...

Eli Wallach, the legendary actor who appeared in over 80 films and a variety of stage productions, died Tuesday at the age of 98, the New York Times reported. Wallach was famously never nominated for ...

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The 1964 spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars turned Clint Eastwood into a star. He had a famous squint in his closeups, but he told Terry Gross in 1997, it wasn't necessarily character driven.

Emmy Award-winning actor Eli Wallach has died, aged 98. Wallach was best known for his role as villain Tuco in the 1966 spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in which he starred alongside ...

He smoldered on screen with an intensity that reached through the camera. No matter the size of the roles he played, even when the parts offered just a few lines of dialogue, he invested the ...

REUTERS - * Wallach's parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland who owned a candy store in an Italian neighborhood of the New York borough of Brooklyn. * He earned degrees from the University of ...

Emmy-winners Michael J. Fox, Bill Hader and Eli Wallach have each signed up to take the seat opposite Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne as part of the network’s Guest Programmer showcase in ...

Wallach, who died in 2014, learned to ride horses as a young man. He later made a career playing villains in Westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Originally broadcast in 1990. This is FRESH ...