Another iconic actor passes away. And although he lived to be over 98, I'll still mourn him, a man I never met.
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For those of you unacquainted with this terrific and versatile actor, of stage and screen, or who might have misplaced him somehow, The New York Times obit is a fine place to start:
http://www.nytimes.com/...
I'm not trying to do a biography here in the Tuesday IAN diary. I am simply moved by the passing of a great American artist who, again and again for so many of us, brought the human drama, comedy, and tragicomedy to startling life.
Many of this week's remembrances have focussed on his masterful tour-de-spaghetti performance in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", as 'Tuco', the Ugly of the title.
He more than held his own with a young actor we have also come to appreciate more and more each passing year:
(And a friendship was born.)
His character in that film is impossible to forget:
His film noir turn in the 1958, Don Siegel-directed, San Francisco-set thriller "The Lineup" is under-appreciated, IMO:
But of his many roles, the one that I can't ever forget is his first screen appearance, in the 1956 Southern Gothic noir, "Baby Doll".
http://www.imdb.com/...
His scene with Carroll Baker is, IMO, the sexiest few minutes in cinema history. (And nobody even takes their clothes off.)
Five years later he was paired with La Monroe in her last film, "The Misfits"
in a kind of erotic revisiting of his "Baby Doll" hotness:
Off-screen his 66-year (!) marriage to the actress Ann Jackson was an inspiration to many of us:
Who in the world of films, TV, or the stage, dead in the last few years, do you miss, mourn, grieve for--or just plain Thank God for?
If you want more Eli Wallach, check out Turner Classic Movies written tribute
http://www.tcm.com/...
and beautiful video: