This is FRESH AIR. Eli Wallach already had played villains in Westerns before he appeared opposite Clint Eastwood as Tuco in "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly." Tuco was the ugly one and also was one of ...

NEW YORK – Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immortality as a conniving, ...

REUTERS - * Wallach's parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland who owned a candy store in an Italian neighborhood of the New York borough of Brooklyn. * He earned degrees from the University of ...

Wallach, who died in 2014, learned to ride horses as a young man. He later made a career playing villains in Westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Originally broadcast in 1990. This is FRESH ...