Adios, Tuco

[Wat_Tyler]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/eli-wallach-dead-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/

The character actor best known as Tuco opposite Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti Western The Good, The Bad And The Ugly has died, The New York Times reports. Eli Wallach was 98.

http://worldwidesensations.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/tuco1.png?w=620


I guess he's done his last digging . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I have his autobiography.



It is a very good read. Can Goldie be far behind?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The dead can still be very useful...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Angel Eyes has been gone for awhile now.


I figure Blondie has some time left yet.


There may be a few more chairs what need lecturin' . . . .

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

wow!- He lived for a long time.
"Born in Brooklyn in 1915, Eli Wallach caught the acting bug early on."
"Award winning character actor and New York City native Eli Wallach has died at the age of 98."

Wallach was born to Jewish immigrant parents in Red Hook, Brooklyn, earning a college degree from the University of Texas, Austin and a masters in education from the City College of New York. He began appearing onstage at the age of 25, later training with the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, studying method acting with Lee Strasberg and making his Broadway debut in 1945. Wallach carved a niche for himself with character work, and he and wife Anne Jackson performed together in a number of theater productions, including Waltz of the Toreadors in 1973 and a revival of The Diary of Anne Frank in 1978.

http://gothamist.com/2014/06/25/actor_eli_wallach_dead_at_98.php

The actor's son, Peter Wallach, confirmed Wednesday that his father passed away Tuesday evening in New York from natural causes.

R.I.P. gsgs comment- You were not pretty, but you were perfect for that part.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Shoot, don't talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTcBgs2huRo

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"The moment one enters the gracious Upper West Side apartment of Eli Wallach, the home he has shared for decades with his wife and fellow actor, Anne Jackson, there is an unmistakable sense of life being well lived. Smiling and curious about his guest, he sits down for the scheduled chat about himself, but he'd much rather offer a tour of the place, pointing out the photos of his daughters, the artworks of his son, the stage and screen memorabilia extending back more than half a century, and - oh, what's this?— a framed marriage certificate from 1948.

November 7, 2010
- Charles McNulty

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/07/entertainment/la-ca-eli-wallach-20101107

(It seems as though he died in the apartment, on the Upper West Side.)

In the late 1960s, he played “Mr Freeze” in one episode of “Batman.”

“But you know, I still get more mail for that one episode of ‘Batman' than just about anything else,” Wallach said 30 years later.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-eli-wallach-20140625-story.html#navtype=outfit

2005 memoir “The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage

 

[Wrong Element]

He was possibly the longest-tenured member of my Dead Pools, so this is a milestone occasion for sure.

Hard to believe that when he made The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, his life was only half over.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

NPR has a nice bit on him. It sounded like he was married to the same woman forever, which is a trick . . . but don't hold me to that. I was navigating amongst idjits while it was on the radio and I am too fucking pressed for time to look it up now

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

His book is really good.


I remember laying in the hammock with Princess reading to her the chapter about his childhood...

 

[RobDownSouth]

NPR has a nice bit on him. It sounded like he was married to the same woman forever, which is a trick . . . but don't hold me to that. I was navigating amongst idjits while it was on the radio and I am too fucking pressed for time to look it up now

I heard that too (what are YOU doing listening to NPR? )

He got married "late" at age 32, and was married for 66 years (his wife survives him). That's impressive.

He said he only made one career misstep, when he turned down the role of Maggio in From Here to Eternity. Some washed up crooner named Sinatra got that role.