Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson on the Oscars' Red Carpet Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson at the Academy Awards Eli Wallach and wife Anne Jackson are seen above arriving at the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony, held on Sunday, Feb. 27, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The 95-year-old Wallach had received an Honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November 2010. See also: "Doris Day Inexplicably Snubbed by Academy," "Maureen O'Hara Honorary Oscar," "Honorary Oscars: Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo Among Rare Women Recipients," and "Hayao Miyazaki Getting Honorary Oscar." Delayed film debut The Actors Studio-trained Eli Wallach was to have made his film debut in Fred Zinnemann's Academy Award-winning 1953 blockbuster From Here to Eternity. Ultimately, however, Frank Sinatra – then a has-been following a string of box office duds – was cast for a pittance, getting beaten to a pulp by a pre-stardom Ernest Borgnine. For his bloodied efforts, Sinatra went on...
- 4/24/2015
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Hollywood has lost another legend after being graced with a 60-year career and nearly 100 years on this Earth as The New York Times reports legendary actor Eli Wallach, star of the classic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, has passed away at 98. After a stint in the army during WWII, serving five years in the Medical Corps and rising to captain, Wallach returned home to become a founding member of the Actors Studio and studied method acting with Lee Strasberg. That led to a Broadway debut in 1951, and stage time with wife Anne Jackson in plays like The Typists, The Tiger and The Diary of Anne Frank. Wallach found plenty of acclaim on the stage with a role in Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo, for which he won a Tony Award. After that, Williams gave Wallach his first film role in Baby Doll, an adaptation of...
- 6/25/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Eli Wallach, the veteran character actor whose film credits included The Magnificent Seven and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, has died. He was 98.
Wallach was born in Brooklyn and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse before service in the Army in the Second World War, when he advanced to the rank of captain in the Medical Corps.
He returned to acting swiftly after the War, making his Broadway debut in 1945 in Skydrift. Six years later he won a Tony for Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo.
Theatre would remain his first love and he acted in such plays as The Typists, The Tiger, The Price, Rhinoceros and The Diary Of Anne Frank.
Big screen roles brought in the money, though, and Wallach made a name for himself in Hollywood in the likes of The Misfits opposite Marilyn Monroe, Lord Jim with Peter O’Toole and The Godfather: Part III.
More recently...
Wallach was born in Brooklyn and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse before service in the Army in the Second World War, when he advanced to the rank of captain in the Medical Corps.
He returned to acting swiftly after the War, making his Broadway debut in 1945 in Skydrift. Six years later he won a Tony for Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo.
Theatre would remain his first love and he acted in such plays as The Typists, The Tiger, The Price, Rhinoceros and The Diary Of Anne Frank.
Big screen roles brought in the money, though, and Wallach made a name for himself in Hollywood in the likes of The Misfits opposite Marilyn Monroe, Lord Jim with Peter O’Toole and The Godfather: Part III.
More recently...
- 6/25/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Eli Wallach, the veteran character actor whose film credits included The Magnificent Seven and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, has died. He was 98.
Wallach was born in Brooklyn and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse before service in the Army in WWII, when he advanced to the rank of captain in the Medical Corps.
He returned to acting swiftly after the War, making his Broadway debut in 1945 in Skydrift. Six years later he won a Tony for Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo.
Theatre would remain his first love and he acted in such plays as The Typists, The Tiger, The Price, Rhinoceros and The Diary Of Anne Frank.
Big screen roles brought in the money, though, and Wallach made a name for himself in Hollywood in the likes of The Misfits opposite Marilyn Monroe, Lord Jim with Peter O’Toole and The Godfather: Part III.
More recently he appeared in Roman Polanski’s Ghost Writer...
Wallach was born in Brooklyn and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse before service in the Army in WWII, when he advanced to the rank of captain in the Medical Corps.
He returned to acting swiftly after the War, making his Broadway debut in 1945 in Skydrift. Six years later he won a Tony for Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo.
Theatre would remain his first love and he acted in such plays as The Typists, The Tiger, The Price, Rhinoceros and The Diary Of Anne Frank.
Big screen roles brought in the money, though, and Wallach made a name for himself in Hollywood in the likes of The Misfits opposite Marilyn Monroe, Lord Jim with Peter O’Toole and The Godfather: Part III.
More recently he appeared in Roman Polanski’s Ghost Writer...
- 6/25/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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