Awards & Winners

Eli Wallach

Date of Birth 07-December-1915
Place of Birth Red Hook
(New York metropolitan area, New York City, Brooklyn, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Ely Wallach, Eli Herschel Wallach, King of Brooklyn, Eli Herschel Wallach, Eli Herschel Wallach, Ely Wallach, Eli Herschel Wallach, Eli Herschel Wallach, Eli Herschel Wallach, Elli Wallach
Profession Actor, Film Producer
Eli Herschel Wallach is an American film, television and stage actor whose career has spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s. For his performance as Silva Vacarro in Baby Doll, he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. Among his most famous roles are Calvera in The Magnificent Seven, Guido in The Misfits, and Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Other notable portrayals include Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III, Cotton Weinberger in The Two Jakes, and Arthur Abbott in The Holiday. One of America's most prolific screen actors, Wallach has remained active well into his nineties, with roles as recently as 2010 in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Ghost Writer. Wallach has received BAFTA Awards, Tony Awards and Emmy Awards for his work, and received an Honorary Academy Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards, presented on November 13, 2010.

Awards by Eli Wallach

Check all the awards nominated and won by Eli Wallach.

2010


Academy Honorary Award
(for a lifetime's worth of indelible screen characters)

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Comedy Series Nurse Jackie
Chicken Soup

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Drama Series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play Visiting Mr. Green
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play Visiting Mr. Green

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play The Price

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie Something in Common
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special

1968


Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role CBS Playhouse
Dear Friends

1967


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Drama
Honored for : The Poppy Is Also a Flower

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Drama The Poppy Is Also a Flower

1963


Obie Award for Performance
Honored for : The Typists, The Tiger
(Distinguished Performance)

1957


BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Honored for : Baby Doll

Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Baby Doll
BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Baby Doll

1951


Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
Honored for : The Rose Tattoo