Posted on 06/25/2014 12:39:44 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Eli Wallach, the enduring and artful character actor who starred as weaselly Mexican hombres in the 1960s film classics The Magnificent Seven and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, has died. He was 98. 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 (1956) and worked steadily well into his nineties, died Tuesday, his daughter Katherine told The New York Times. No other details of his death were
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yes, it needs to be resized
Calvera “Ride on he said”!
Great actor.
Sorry to hear this.
BLONDIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now Tuco’s gone along with Angel Eyes.
Blondie’s the only one left.
RIP, I’ll be blaring the “Good/Bad/Ugly” soundtrack today...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPVH7rxl6So&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Great actor. Always believable in the roles he played.
RIP Eli...
Yes, amen.
This makes me angry. I’m gonna get my whip, oil it and teach Toby not to be the bearer of bad news.
Yes, yes. Good call!
RE Wallach:
He was blessed with a good, long life, had a great career, and influenced many people in the course of it.
His soul can look back now and say “I’ve run my race...and won it.”
We all go eventually; we should all hope to leave something good behind us in the course of our time here.
Another excellent movie.
He is missed already...
Anyhow, RIP.
98 is a good run. http://www.deathlist.net/ had him at #3
It’s a UK based site so there are lot of British people on it.
Toby needs punishment. Harsh punishment.
“Anyhow, RIP.”
Amen.
He was an old man when Concetta Corleone poisoned his cannoli.
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