FrameThrower · Actors · Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach
4 films · 292 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1956–1979
Born 7 December 1915 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · died 24 June 2014
Eli Herschel Wallach was an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Other roles include his portrayal of Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III, Calvera in The Magnificent Seven, and Arthur Abbott in The Holiday. Wallach has received BAFTA Awards, Tony Awards and Emmy Awards for his work. Wallach also has a cameo as a liquor store owner in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River. Wallach received an Honorary Academy Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards, presented on November 13, 2010.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 292 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1956–1979
- BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles1957
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series1967
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play1951
- Academy Honorary Award2010
- Theatre World Award1951
- World War II Victory Medal
- European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
- American Campaign Medal
- Good Conduct Medal
- Ellis Island Medal of Honor
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
- Donaldson Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 292 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Eli takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Eli takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 292 frames from Eli Wallach's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.