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Eli Wallach

July 2021

  • Anita Skinner and Melanie Mayron in Girlfriends.

    Girlfriends review – a lo-fi indie miracle about love and the city

    Claudia Weill’s 1978 comic tale of a photographer trying to make it in New York is a gem whose emotional force comes from the female friendships at its heart

July 2014

  • Eli Wallach

    Letter: Eli Wallach on Book at Bedtime

    Jeremy Hayes writes: The actor's New York accent was perfect for reading Joseph Mitchell's book McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
  • Eli Wallach with Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

    Film blog
    Eli Wallach: 50 years of being very good, bad and (occasionally) ugly

  • Eli Wallach in The Magnificent Seven, 1960.

    Eli Wallach obituary

  • Eli Wallach in 2010

    Film blog
    Eli Wallach: a career in clips

  • Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

    Eli Wallach, star of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, dies aged 98

November 2010

  • THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

    From Tennessee Williams to Sergio Leone: Actor Eli Wallach at 95

    From his iconic role in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966 – he was the Ugly – to apperances in Wall Street 2 and The Ghost in 2010, Eli Wallach is the actor who never stops. He talks to Rob Hastings

June 2005

  • Friday Review quiz
    Friday quiz June 24 2005

    1) Put these in ascending order of length: a) Ugly actor
    b) 2005 Swedish boarding school-set thriller
    c) Marwood (Paul McGann), aka ...?
    d) William Baldwin secretly watching Sharon Stone's bath-time frolics
    e) The One (2001)
    f) "She", Napoleon Dynamite and No Surrender.

    Answer:
    c) I (Paul McGann's character named Marwood in screenplay is un-named in Withnail and I);
    e) LI (Jet Li, the star of The One);
    a) ELI (Eli Wallach, co-star of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly);
    b) EVIL (Mikael Hafstrom's Evil released this week);
    f) ELVIS (Elvis Costello sang "She" on the Notting Hill soundtrack, inspired title of Napoleon Dynamite - taken from alter ego at time of making Blood and Chocolate - and appeared in No Surrender);
    d) SLIVER (Philip Noyce's 1993 thriller co-starred Stone and Baldwin).

July 2000

  • Oscars 2011: Eli Wallach

    Eli Wallach: strength of character

    He's played Mexican bandits, Sicilian lovers, Jewish elders and Mafia bosses. And his approach to acting hugely influenced Brando, Newman and Monroe. Michael Billington meets Eli Wallach - 84 and still preaching the Method.

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