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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Eli Wallach, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ Star, Dies at 98



"I'm looking for the owner of that horse. He's tall, blonde, he smokes a cigar, and he's a pig!"
Tuco


Tuco is gone leaving a giant hole in my life.  Only in America can a son of Jewish immigrants from Poland become famous for playing Mexican characters.

RIP  -  Eli Wallach  (1915 - 2014).  Eli leaves behind a wife of 66 years.


Born in Brooklyn, the son of Polish immigrants who ran the local sweet shop, Wallach served in the Second World War and learned his craft at the Actors' Studio, studying alongside Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift. He worked on Broadway in the post-war years

Wallach's went on to act with Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits and Audrey Hepburn in How to Steal a Million.

He came to the attention of action-adventure fans when he played a Mexican bandit in the 1960 movie The Magnificent Seven.

From 1956 to 2010 he appeared in nearly 100 movies.  But there is no doubt that his role as the vicious Tuco in the classic Sergio Leone The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was the role of a lifetime.

Tuco dominated every scene of the movie with those EYES, his humor and, in his way, a sympathetic strength of character.  Yes he was evil and a killer, buy Wallach made us love him.

Wallach received an Honorary Academy Award at the second annual Governors Awards, presented on Nov. 13, 2010, for “a lifetime’s worth of indelible screen characters.”

(Variety.com)


Tuco scenes in Good, Bad, Ugly
 
 




Music - The Good the Bad and the Ugly




"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
Tuco
 
 
 
Sheriff:  [shows Tuco the wanted poster] So you're an honest farmer, you recognize this man?
Tuco:  Huh?
Sheriff:  Yeah, it's you!
Tuco:  Hey, who said so, huh?  You can't even read!
[the Sheriff rolls up the poster]
Tuco:  Roll it up, roll it up!  I'll give you a good idea where you can put it!


"I like big fat men like you. When they fall they make more noise. And sometimes they don't get up."
Tuco

"If God didn't want them sheared, he would
not have made them sheep."
Calvera
The Magnificent Seven

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