The film is based on the 1959 novel, Muscle Beach, by Ira Wallach, who also wrote the screenplay.

Before accepting a role as a villain in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry Fonda called Wallach and asked " What the hell does he know about the West?

" Wallach writes, " I hadn't thought about that question before, but I answered ...

When William " Bill " Esper ( 1932-) was a young man, he saw Eli Wallach and Maureen Stapleton in a touring production of The Rose Tattoo ... " was so struck by the acting ... fter the play was over, I decided to go around the corner to get a cup of coffee so I could think about it some more.

Guido ( Wallach ) and Gay invite Roslyn and her friend Isabelle Steers ( Ritter ) to Guido's place in the country to help her forget about the divorce.

In a documentary about the making of The Misfits, Wallach told a story of Huston's directing a scene in which Wallach was at a bar with Gable.

This immediately led to Our Family Honor, a CBS drama about Irish cops versus the Mafia, in which she starred with Ray Liotta, Michael Madsen and Eli Wallach.

Anna greets Rabbi Lewis ( Eli Wallach ) as he passes by and asks about their meetings together, at which point it becomes clear that she had been taking classes to convert to Judaism.

In July 1942, Zwonarz was approached by a Jewish doctor, Nathan Wallach, whose wife was acquainted with Zwonarz, about taking their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter under his care.

I walked into a little drugstore, and Eli was sitting there having a bite to eat ... he talked to the actor Wallach told him he had studied at Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse ... fter college he moved to New York and began studying with the teacher who was famous for his exercises in repeated dialogue ... " I started directing.

To spare Sinatra embarrassment, Wallach says he turned down the role to appear in a Tennessee Williams play: " Whenever Sinatra saw me, he ’ d say, ' Hello, you crazy actor!

" Wallach assured Fonda he would be pleasantly surprised if he accepted the role.

Leone had asked Wallach to play a role in his upcoming film, A Fistful of Dynamite, but the actor explained he had a scheduling conflict.

According to Frayling's biography of Leone, Something to Do with Death, he envisioned a contemporary adaptation of Cervantes ' 17th century novel Don Quixote with Clint Eastwood in the title role and Eli Wallach as Sancho Panza.

In 1956, Kazan directed him in a starring role in Baby Doll, alongside Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach, a controversial story written by Tennessee Williams, and he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

After initially turning down the role, he was convinced to accept it by actor Eli Wallach and director Sergio Leone, who flew from Italy to the United States to persuade him to take the part.

He then portrayed Adams in Andrew L. Stone's Never Put It in Writing and had a small role as Anthony Gamble in The Moon-Spinners, a James Neilson Walt Disney production which co-starred Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, and Peter McEnery.

This was the first program where Cobie Smulders had a series regular role, and notable guest stars included Liz Vassey, Carlo Rota, Roger Rees, and Eli Wallach.

There have been four Broadway revivals, in 1928 at the Guild Theatre, 1956 at the Martin Beck Theatre and then the Morosco Theatre starring Glynis Johns, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Eli Wallach, Burgess Meredith, and Charles Laughton, who also directed, in 1980 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, and 2001 at the American Airlines Theatre, with Cherry Jones in the title role.

The role of Juan Miranda was written for Eli Wallach, but Wallach had already committed to another project with Jean-Paul Belmondo.

and a lead role in the police drama Family Honor with Ray Liotta and Eli Wallach.

Adolph Caesar was slated to appear in this film but died from complications from a heart attack before the film was finished and Wallach was recast in his role.

Lee Van Cleef returned as a ruthless fortune seeker, with Eli Wallach portraying the cunning Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez.

Eli Wallach, the actor who played the part of Tuco, reportedly told director Sergio Leone that it was too difficult to put a pistol into a holster without looking, so Leone put Wallach's pistol on a lanyard.

* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( Tuco ( Eli Wallach ))

Wallach and Leone had built a good relationship during shooting The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but had a falling-out later on.

In 2005, Wallach released his autobiography The Good, the Bad and Me: In My Anecdotage.

According to rumor, Leone offered the parts of the three bad guys to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly stars Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach.

Spartak Mishulin, who plays Sayid in White Sun of the Desert, and Konstantin Raikin, who plays Kayum in At Home among Strangers, are just some examples of this ( compare Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly ).

The term Cumania had come to mean any Catholic subordinated to the Milcov Diocese, so much so that in some cases, the terms Cuman and Wallach ( more precisely, Roman Catholic Wallach, as the Orthodox Christians were considered schismatic, and the Pope did not officially recognise them ) were interchangeable, ( as were the terms Wallach and Brodnic ).

Wallach was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn at 166 Union St., the son of Polish Jewish immigrants Bertha ( née Schorr ) and Abraham Wallach.

Wallach was graduated in 1936 from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in history and in 1938 received a masters degree in education from the City College of New York.

In 2006, Wallach made a guest appearance on the NBC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, playing a former writer who was blacklisted in the 1950s.

Wallach also mentioned that director Sergio Leone was notoriously careless regarding the safety of his actors during dangerous scenes.

It was during filming that Wallach accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had carelessly placed next to his soda bottle.

The honor was bestowed on him on November 13, along with Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Brownlow and Eli Wallach.

Sinatra benefited when Eli Wallach, who was originally cast as Maggio, dropped out to appear on Broadway instead.

Kazan became known as an " actor's director " because he was able to elicit some of the best performances in the careers of many of his stars, such as Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, James Dean, Julie Harris, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach and Natalie Wood.

During the filming of a scene in which a bridge was blown up, Eastwood urged Wallach to retreat to a hilltop.

* A television adaptation, directed by John Frankenheimer, was broadcast in two parts on CBS's Playhouse 90 in 1956, starring Jason Robards and Maria Schell as Robert Jordan and Maria, with Nehemiah Persoff as Pablo, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as the gypsy Rafael.

Convex was formed in 1982 by Bob Paluck and Steve Wallach in Richardson, Texas.

( In his autobiography, Eli Wallach, who acted as the movie's villain, Calvera, reports struggling to conceal his amusement while watching the filming of the funeral-procession scene where Brynner's and McQueen's characters first meet: Brynner was clearly furious at McQueen's shotgun-round-shake, which effectively diverted the viewer's attention to McQueen.

Seeds of Peace was founded in 1993 by John Wallach.

Elia Kazan won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and the film was nominated for four other Golden Globe awards, as well as four Academy Awards and four BAFTA Awards awards, with Eli Wallach taking the BAFTA prize for " Most Promising Newcomer to Film.

In 1982, The Executioner's Song was adapted by Mailer for a television movie of the same name starring Tommy Lee Jones as Gilmore, and co-starring Christine Lahti, Eli Wallach and Rosanna Arquette.

This series of 10 scenes, or " blocks ", was first staged in a workshop by Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in 1949, and later turned into a 1953 Broadway production directed by Kazan with assistant by Anna Sokolow and starring Eli Wallach ( as Kilroy ), Frank Silvera ( as Gutman ), Joseph Anthony ( as Casanova ), Jo Van Fleet ( as Marguerite " Camille " Gautier ), Jennie Goldstein ( as the Gypsy ), Barbara Baxley ( as Esmeralda ), and David J. Stewart ( as the Baron ).

In 1908 he was arrested under the name Meer Wallach by French police, while carrying twelve 500-ruble banknotes that were taken from a bank in Tiflis during the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery that took place on 26 June 1907.