Eli Wallach dies at 98
06-24-14, 11:50 PM
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Eli Wallach dies at 98
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/mo...?smid=tw-share
best known as The Ugly in The Good, The Bad & the Ugly. & he still worked too, was recently seen in Wall Street 2 Money Never Sleeps
best known as The Ugly in The Good, The Bad & the Ugly. & he still worked too, was recently seen in Wall Street 2 Money Never Sleeps
06-25-14, 12:04 AM
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That's a damn shame. 
06-25-14, 12:09 AM
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He lived a good long life. We should be so lucky.
06-25-14, 12:30 AM
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Since GBU is my most favorite movie of all time, this is hitting me a little harder than expected.
Another film that I loved him for:
Another film that I loved him for:
06-25-14, 01:02 AM
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RIP
Here's hoping Kirk makes 100!
Here's hoping Kirk makes 100!
06-25-14, 03:58 AM
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He also played Calvera in The Magnificent Seven. Not too many of them are still with us. As far as the main cast is concerned, just Robert Vaughn and Rosenda Monteros are left now.
06-25-14, 04:10 AM
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Along with Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Havilland turns 98 in a week and Zsa Zsa Gabor is also 97. Luise Rainer - the first person to win multiple Oscars, and the first person to win back-to-back Oscars - currently holds the title of oldest living screen legend, though. She's 104.
06-25-14, 05:11 AM
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06-25-14, 05:59 AM
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Amazing actor. RIP.
Wish he had the opportunity to have starring roles in better films but I think it's because he started so late in terms of age in movies. He was 41 when he landed his first role in Baby Doll which is one of his best performances.
He's awesome in Baby Doll, Good the Bad..., and Magnificent Seven
Wish he had the opportunity to have starring roles in better films but I think it's because he started so late in terms of age in movies. He was 41 when he landed his first role in Baby Doll which is one of his best performances.
He's awesome in Baby Doll, Good the Bad..., and Magnificent Seven
06-25-14, 06:09 AM
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Back to Eli: he did quite a few Italian westerns besides GBU. In fact, I saw him in ACE HIGH not long before I first saw GBU back in 1969. I eventually caught up with the others on VHS. I once met him on a shoot (he was doing narration for a documentary my station was making) and I asked him about his other Italian westerns and he regaled me with stories about them, including how he coined the English title for DON'T TURN THE OTHER CHEEK. I wish I'd written his stories down. Very nice guy.
I first saw him onscreen in HOW THE WEST WAS WON, where he played a bandit role like that in MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, although the character wasn't Mexican. Then I saw him in LORD JIM which, like HTWWW, was seen on a class trip to a Broadway movie theater. Then when I was in high school I saw the two Italian westerns.
One great underrated movie of his was the comedy, THE TIGER MAKES OUT ((1967), in which he co-starred with his wife, Anne Jackson. Here's the IMDB synopsis:
Ben Harris, an embittered, middle-aged New York City postal worker living in a Greenwich Village basement, becomes obsessed with the idea of kidnapping and enslaving the first beautiful young woman he can get his hands on. When he tries to carry out his plan, he doesn't count on suburban homemaker Gloria getting in the way.
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06-25-14, 08:22 AM
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I liked him in alot of movies but one of his most recent was The Holiday and I think he did a great job in that one.
06-25-14, 10:24 AM
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I saw him pop up in Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" recently and loved that he still continued working so late in the game. There was a kind of comfort in knowing someone so venerable was alive and working in cinema. He had a helluva run, but he will be missed all the same.
06-25-14, 12:30 PM
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