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06-25-2014, 07:07 AM
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Eli Wallach, 98
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/mo...t-98.html?_r=0
A versatile, old fashioned, 'method' performer who was a founding member of the Actor's Studio, a fixture in the live teleplays of early TV and immortal as Tuco in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". If you've never seen a lesser known Wallach picture called "The Lineup", try to find it. Directed by the great Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Killers, Charley Varrick, et al..), it is the godfather of every excellent San Francisco-based crime drama subsequently made including Bullitt and Siegel's own Dirty Harry. (Siegel of course was Clint Eastwood's directing mentor). Wallach headlines The Lineup as the oddly charming assassin 'Dancer'. Wallach was a treasure who clearly preferred work over inactivity. Despite his obvious intellect, he didn't seem to take himself too seriously as his role as Mr. Freeze in Adam West's Batman would attest..
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06-25-2014, 09:51 AM
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I will definitely check out "The Lineup."
I saw him almost 20 years ago Off-B'way in "Visiting Mr. Green." He was terrific. I and my friend waited outside the theater after for his autograph and he was very kind. As coincidence had it, I saw his wife not long before in "Mr. Peter's Connection" (with Peter Falk!) and she was also incredibly kind and classy after the show to an overenthusiastic, fresh out of college kid. Both shows didn't get the greatest of reviews (though I liked them both a lot) and I remember Mr. Wallach made very sure I understood it was the play the critics didn't like, not his performance. Hee hee. RIP. A great actor.
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06-25-2014, 09:56 AM
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Great actor. Loved him as Tuco in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. There is an interview online where he talks about improvising the "gun shop" scene where Tuco assembles a gun from the best parts of those available - never having known much about firearms. He was surprised but pleased that many fans of the movie thought of that scene as authentic.
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." He also was good in his part in Godfather III - which despite not rising to the level of Godfather I and II still had a lot of good moments. Rest in peace. They don't make many actors like him anymore.
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06-25-2014, 12:26 PM
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"BLONDIEEEEEE!!!"
Rest in Peace Mr. Wallach, I can watch "Tuco" over and over and over, magnificent performance.
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06-25-2014, 03:29 PM
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Great actor..RIP Eli..Thanks for all the great movies...
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06-26-2014, 01:08 AM
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Ah yes, Music. Very good for the digestion !
"what was it you said ? oh, yes, if you save your breath, a man like you could manage it."
should have won an oscar for Tuco, "it doesn't matter, I'll kill them all." was also cool in the flick Tough Guys. Kirk Burt and Eli act up a storm in that one
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06-27-2014, 07:34 AM
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06-27-2014, 10:00 AM
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after he shoots up the nursing home and the law comes, he grabs some old guys walker and pretends to be an inmate of the home....
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06-27-2014, 06:41 PM
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What, no mention of him as the bandito chieftain, Calvera, in the Magnificent Seven? I loved him in that role. The movie was a whole collection of "macho men" of the sixties. Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn. The latter three would get back together in another good movie, "The Great Escape," three years later.
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