Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach

Acting

Born December 7, 1915 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for B…

Known for

Law & Order

Law & Order

1990

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

American Playhouse

American Playhouse

1982

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

1956

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

1984

ER

1994

Great Performances

Great Performances

1971

Acting(216)

2022Rat PackSelf (archive footage)

2020The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael CorleoneOsvaldo Altobello

2015The TrainAndre

2014Showing UpSelf

2010Wall Street: Money Never SleepsJulie Steinhardt

2010Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth GruberMordechai Rossman (voice)

2010The Ghost WriterOld man

2009Nurse JackieBernard Zimberg

2009In the Name of DemocracyNarrator

2009The Toe TacticMaestro

2008New York, I Love YouAbe

2008Il falso bugiardoSelf (archive footage)

2008Vote and Die: Liszt for PresidentJoe Nightingale

2007Mama's BoySeymour Warburton

2007The WarNarrator (voice)

2006The HolidayArthur

2006The HoaxNoah Dietrich

2006Studio 60 on the Sunset StripEli Weinraub

2006The Real James DeanSelf

2006Baby Doll: See No EvilSelf

2006Sergio Leone: The Way I See ThingsSelf

2006The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'Self

2005A Taste Of JupiterArturo

2005Steve McQueen: The Essence of CoolSelf

2005James Dean: Sense MemoriesSelf

2005The Moon and the Son: An Imagined ConversationFather

2004The Easter Egg AdventureNarrator (voice)

2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonOther Voices (voice)

2004Stroker and HoopNarrator (voice)

2004King of the CornerSol Spivak

2004Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'Self

2004Leone's WestSelf

2004Por un puñado de sueñosSelf - Interviewee

2003Mystic RiverMr. Loonie (uncredited)

2003Horatio's Drive: America's First Road TripOther Voices (voice)

2003WhoopiNorman

2003The Education of Gore VidalSelf

2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereSelf

2003Veritas: The QuestRabbi

2003Time Machine: When Cowboys Were KingSelf / Narrator

2002Making 'The Misfits'Self

2002Cinerama AdventureSelf

2002Monday Night MayhemLeonard Goldenson

2001The JobMr. Weiss

2000Clint Eastwood: Out of the ShadowsSelf

2000UninvitedAlan Strasser

2000Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'Self

2000Keeping the FaithRabbi Ben Lewis

2000The Bookfair MurdersErich Schmidt

1998Naked City: Justice with a BulletDeluca

1997The Trial of Adolf EichmannPinchas Freudiger / David Ben-Gurion (voices)

1997Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 YearsSelf

1996The AssociateDonald Fallon

1996The WestSelf

1996O. Henry's ChristmasBehrman ("The Last Leaf")

1996Honey Sweet LoveDon Siro

1996Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and HandsomeSelf

1996The Search for DraculaNarrator

1995Two MuchSheldon

1995James Dean: A PortraitSelf

1995Elia Kazan: A Director's JourneyNarrator

1995Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was KingSelf

1994It's Alive: The True Story of FrankensteinNarrator

1994Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal GoddessSelf

1994ERMr. Langston

1994BaseballVarious (voice)

1994Inside the Actors StudioSelf

1994Martha Graham: The Dancer RevealedSelf

1994The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed MonstersSelf - Narrator (voice)

1993Vendetta II: The New MafiaFrank Latella

1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest

1992LincolnWilliam Crook (voice)

1992The Donner Partyvoice

1992The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980Don Altobello

1992Night and the CityPeck

1992Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser StoryBill Presser

1992MistressGeorge Lieberhof

1992Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems(voice)

1992Legacy of LiesMoses Resnick

1992Article 99Sam Abrams

1992Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes(voice)

1991Terezin DiaryNarrator

1991Coney IslandSelf - Actor

1990The Godfather Part IIIDon Altobello

1990Law & OrderSimon Vilanis

1990Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept SecretSelf

1990The Two JakesCotton Weinberger

1990The Godfather Family: A Look InsideSelf / Don Altobello

1988Hello Actors StudioSelf

1988An Empire of ReasonAnti-Federalist Spokesman

1987Hollywood UncensoredSelf

1987The Impossible SpyYacov

1987NutsDr. Herbert A. Morrison

1987Eve and MarilynSelf (archive photo)

1987Hollywood's Favorite Heavy: Businessmen on Prime Time TVSelf - Host

1987Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in PolandNarrator (voice)

1986Something in CommonNorman Voss

1986Worlds BeyondCharles Burgess

1986Tough GuysLeon B. Little

1986Rocket to the MoonMr. Prince

1985Murder: By Reason of InsanityDr. Huffman

1985The New Alfred Hitchcock PresentsYosef Kandinsky

1985Our Family HonorVincent Danzig

1985EmbassyJoe Verga

1985Christopher ColumbusPadre Fernando De Talavera

1985Screen TwoYacov

1984Murder, She WroteSalvatore Gambini

1984Highway to HeavenTimothy Charles

1984Sam's SonSam Orowitz

1984Anatomy of an IllnessDr. William Hitzig

1983Reading RainbowSelf - Narrator (voice)

1982The Executioner's SongVern Damico

1982The Executioner's SongVern Damico

1982The WallMauritzi Apt

1982American PlayhouseMr. Prince

1981SkokieBert Silverman

1981The SalamanderGeneral Leporello

1981The Pride of Jesse HallamSal Galucci

1980Fugitive FamilyOlan Vacio

1980The HunterRitchie Blumenthal

1980Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of FlatbushSelf - Narrator (voice)

1979Winter KillsJoe Diamond

1979FirepowerSal Hyman

1979Tales of the UnexpectedGerry Williams

1978Movie MovieVince Marlow / Pop

1978Little ItalyDon Gerolamo Giarra

1978GirlfriendsRabbi Gold

1978Circle of IronMan-in-Oil

1977The PirateBen Ezra

1977The Hollywood GreatsSelf

1977The DeepAdam Coffin

1977The Domino PrincipleGen. Reser

1977Seventh AvenueGus Farber

1977Nasty HabitsMonsignor

1977The SentinelDetective Gatz

1976Plot of FearPeter Struwwel

1976IndependenceBenjamin Franklin

1975Eye of the CatCesare

1975The White, The Yellow, and The BlackSheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack

1974Houston, We've Got a ProblemNarrator (voice)

1974Crazy JoeDon Vittorio

1974Indict and ConvictDeWitt Foster

1973Cinderella LibertyLynn Forshay

1973KojakLee Curtin

1973Stateline MotelJoe

1973Orson Welles' Great MysteriesFuzzy

1973A Cold Night's DeathFrank Enari

1971Don't Turn the Other CheekMaz Lozoya

1971The TypistsPaul Cunningham

1971Romance of a HorsethiefKifke

1971Paradise LostLeo Gordon

1971Great PerformancesSelf

1970The People Next DoorArthur Mason

1970The Angel LevineDelicatessen Clerk

1970The Adventures of GerardNapoleon Bonaparte

1970Zig ZagMario Gambretti

1970The Reason WhyCharles

1969Mackenna's GoldBen Baker

1969The BrainFrankie Scannapieco, Godfather of the Italian Mafia

1968Ace HighCacopoulos

1968A Lovely Way to DieTennessee Fredericks

1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InSelf

1968How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your LifeHarry Hunter

1967The Tiger Makes OutBen Harris

1967The Owl Who Gave a HootMr. Owl (voice)

1966The Good, the Bad and the UglyTuco Ramirez

1966CBS PlayhouseDouglas Lambert

1966How to Steal a MillionDavis Leland

1966The Poppy Is Also a Flower'Happy' Locarno

1966BatmanMister Freeze

1965Genghis KhanShah of Khwarezm

1965Lord JimThe General

1964Kisses for My PresidentRaphael Valdez Jr.

1964The Moon-SpinnersStratos

1963Act OneWarren Stone

1963The VictorsSgt. Craig

1962How the West Was WonCharlie Gant

1962The Merv Griffin ShowSelf

1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf

1962Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young ManJohn

1961The Mike Douglas ShowSelf

1961The Dick Powell ShowManny Jacobs

1961The MisfitsGuido

1960The Magnificent SevenCalvera

1960Seven ThievesPoncho

1960LullabyJohnny Horton

1959I, Don QuixoteSancho Panza / Cervantes' Manservant

1959For Whom the Bell TollsRafael

1959The David Susskind ShowSelf

1958The Gift of the MagiNarrator

1958Westinghouse Desilu PlayhouseRaymond Perez

1958Naked CityDet. Peter Bane

1958The Plot to Kill StalinPoskrebyshev

1958The LineupDancer

1958Shirley Temple's StorybookSimon

1957Tonight Starring Jack PaarSelf

1957The LarkDauphin

1956Baby DollSilva Vacarro

1956Playhouse 90Rafael

1956Tony AwardsSelf - Presenter

1954Climax!Albert Anastasia

1951Hallmark Hall of FameDauphin

1950What's My Line?Self - Mystery Guest

1949Lights OutGiovanni

1948Studio OneOzep

1948The Philco Television Playhouse

1948The Ed Sullivan ShowSelf

The Yidishe GauchosNarrator