NEW YORK – Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immortality as a conniving, ...

This is FRESH AIR. Eli Wallach already had played villains in Westerns before he appeared opposite Clint Eastwood as Tuco in "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly." Tuco was the ugly one and also was one of ...

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It tells the story of two women from England and Los Angeles who switch homes for the holidays. Eli Wallach who played Arthur Abbott died in 2014, but many of the film's actors are still working. "The ...

Emmy Award-winning actor Eli Wallach has died, aged 98. Wallach was best known for his role as villain Tuco in the 1966 spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in which he starred alongside ...

The 1964 spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars turned Clint Eastwood into a star. He had a famous squint in his closeups, but he told Terry Gross in 1997, it wasn't necessarily character driven.

Wallach, who died in 2014, learned to ride horses as a young man. He later made a career playing villains in Westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Originally broadcast in 1990. This is FRESH ...