Eli Wallach played Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and the character is the film’s actual protagonist, on screen more than either of the others and given all the best material.
He was a founding member of the Actors Studio and worked constantly from the 1950s until his nineties, in The Magnificent Seven, Baby Doll and The Godfather Part III.
He nearly died twice during the Leone shoot, from an accidental poisoning and from a train sequence gone wrong. He received an honorary Academy Award in 2010.
Charles BronsonThe Magnificent Seven (1960) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Kurosawa's Seven Samurai relocated to the Mexican border, shortened by an hour, and improved in one specific way. Every gunman gets an introduction that is also an…
Cameron DiazTwo women in unhappy relationships swap homes for Christmas across the Atlantic and find new romance during the holiday. The Holiday is Nancy Meyers's 2006 American-British romantic comedy depicting two women in unhappy relationships, an English country-newspaper columnist and an…
Clint EastwoodThe Man With No Name trilogy is one of the great achievements in commercial cinema and the foundation document of the spaghetti western genre. The trilogy was produced as Italian-Spanish-German co-productions on substantially smaller budgets than American westerns of the…
Aldo GiuffreThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly defined the Western. Eastwood, Wallach, Van Cleef.
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