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Eli Wallach

Actor
7 December 1915 to 23 June 2014

An American actor who won a BAFTA aged 40 for Most Promising Newcomer to Film for his performance in Baby Doll (1956), Wallach made a name for himself playing villains in a screen career spanning six decades. His most famous roles included the bandit Calvera in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Tuco in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966).

- Read Eli Wallach's Guardian obituary here