Eli WallachFilmography

Born:: December 7, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Long before earning his B.A. from the University of Texas and his M.A. in Education from C.C.N.Y., Eli Wallach made his first on-stage appearance in a 1930 amateur production. After World War II service and intensive training at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, the bumpy-nosed, gravel-voiced...Read More

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New York, I Love You

Actors: Hayden Christensen, Andy Garcia, Rachel Bilson, Natalie Portman, Irfan Khan, Orlando Bloom, Christina Ricci, Maggie Q, Ethan Hawke, Chris Cooper, Robin Wright Penn, Anton Yelchin, James Caan, Olivia Thirlby, Blake Lively, Drea de Matteo, Bradley Cooper, Julie Christie, John Hurt, Shia LaBeouf, Taylor Geare, Carlos Acosta, Jacinda Barrett, Ugur Yucel, Shu Qi, Burt Young, Eli Wallach, Cloris Leachman, Emilie Ohana, Eva Amurri, Justin Bartha

Synopsis: Some of the world's most-respected directors align forces to pay tribute to the city of the New York in this unconventional omnibus sister film to 2006's Paris, Je T'Aime. Broken into short segments, New York, I Love You is comprised of 10 films, most choosing to take a down-to-earth approach to Read More

10/16/09
Tickling Leo

Actors: Daniel Sauli, Annie Parisse, Lawrence Pressman, Ronald Guttman, Victoria Clark, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: In the days before Yom Kippur (aka the Day of Atonement), Zak Pikler takes his pregnant girlfriend Delphina to find his estranged father in the family drama Tickling Leo. When they reach the man's home in the Catskills, he finds his father has turned into a hermit and is suffering from dementia. Read More

9/4/09
The Toe Tactic

Actors: Lily Rabe, Daniel London, Kevin Corrigan, Sakina Jaffrey

Synopsis: Acclaimed animator and independent filmmaker Emily Hubley directed this offbeat fusion of animation and live action. Mona Peek (Lily Rabe) is slowly coming to terms with the death of her father when she learns that the house where she grew up is about to be sold. As a child, Mona buried a bone in Read More

2/4/09
Constantine's Sword

Synopsis: Academy Award-nominated director Oren Jacoby helmed this documentary adaptation of former Catholic priest James Carroll's nonfiction book of the same name. An anti-war activist, Carroll delves into Christianity's history to learn how a faith founded on peace could come to be used as a tool for Read More

4/18/08
Mama's Boy

Actors: Jon Heder, Diane Keaton, Jeff Daniels, Anna Faris, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Jeff Daniels, Jon Heder, and Diane Keaton star in director Tim Hamilton's domestic comedy concerning a slacker who finds his status as man of the house challenged when his single mother begins dating a self-help guru. As the influence of youth gradually gives way to the wisdom of age, the stage is Read More

11/30/07
The Hoax

Actors: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Stanley Tucci

Synopsis: Director Lasse Hallström offers a brisk account of the scam that shook the literary community with this semi-comic biographical drama starring Richard Gere as the man who sold a fraudulent biography of Howard Hughes to publishing giant McGraw Hill. The year was 1971; the Vietnam War was raging and Read More

4/6/07
Ken Burns' The War [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Glenn Frazier, Sam Hynes, Quentin Aanenson, Jim Sherman, Earl Burke

Synopsis: Ken Burns continues his exploration of massive, sweeping subjects with his 15-hour documentary The War; in this case, the conflict in question is World War II. Yet within the scope of that gargantuan subject, Burns and co-director Lynn Novick narrow their scale of emphasis, honing in on four Read More

2007
Brando

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Richard Bailey, Janet Aemisegger, Ellen Adler, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, James Caan, Jane Fonda

Synopsis: As originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, at the Cannes Film Festival, and on Turner Classic Movies, the mammoth, epic-length documentary Brando chronicles in encyclopedic detail (and with a consistently reverent overtone) the life and career of the man widely regarded as the most Read More

2007
The Holiday

Actors: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy Holiday stars Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two women who exchange houses in order to get a new lease on life. After each suffers her fair share of romantic disappointments, Englishwoman Iris (Winslet) and L.A. woman Amanda (Diaz) meet on-line at a website devoted Read More

12/8/06
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

Actors: Eugenio Alabisio, Nino Baragli, Claudia Cardinale, Damiano Damiani, Roberto Forges Davanzati

Synopsis: Few American film enthusiasts were even aware that anyone made westerns in Italy before Sergio Leone's breakthrough film, 1964's Per un Pugno di Dollari (aka A Fistful Of Dollars), made Clint Eastwood a worldwide star and introduced audiences to the forbidding beauty and troubling morality of Read More

2006
Ahead of Time

Actors: Eggert Thorleifsson, Egil Olafsson, Jacob Magnusson, Ragnhildur Gisladottir, Tomas Tomasson, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Agust Gudmundsson's comedy Ahead of Time concerns the attempts of an Icelandic pop band to regroup decades after their acrimonious split. The machinations begin after Frimann (Jakob Frimann Magnusson) loses the rest of the band he was playing with. This forces him to make contact with all of his Read More

2006
King of the Corner

Actors: Peter Riegert, Isabella Rossellini, Ashley Johnson, Eli Wallach, Rita Moreno

Synopsis: A man looking for a new purpose in his life finds one that last place he expected in this comedy. Leo Spivak (Peter Riegert) is a man slowly sinking into the quicksand of a midlife crisis. He's become increasingly unsatisfied with his career in product testing, especially now that his young Read More

6/17/05
James Dean: Sense Memories

Synopsis: James Dean: Sense Memories documents the short but brilliant career of the iconic James Dean. Combining interviews given by some of those who worked with him and archival footage, this American Masters film attempts to explain how Dean's talent and acting style helped make him a superstar and Read More

2005
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

Actors: Eli Wallach, John Turturro

2005
Broadway: The Golden Age

Actors: Edie Adams, Bea Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is both a celebration of current Broadway stars and a tribute to Broadway legends past. Through a plethora of interviews and vast amounts of archival footage, McKay presents a Read More

6/11/04
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Synopsis: Experience legendary boxer Jack Johnson's remarkable struggle both in and out of the ring in documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' two-part look at the career of one of the sports world's most remarkable athletes. From his childhood in Galveston, TX, as the son of former slaves to his triumph as the Read More

2004
Mystic River

Actors: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney

Synopsis: Directed by Clint Eastwood, the mysterious drama Mystic River is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane and adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed Read More

10/8/03
The Education of Gore Vidal

Actors: Anne Jackson, Gore Vidal, Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Sarah Sarandon, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Always his own best audience, celebrated author, social critic, and self-described political "nag" Gore Vidal also proves the ideal master of ceremonies (via film clips from an extended interview) for this biographical documentary. From the vantage point of his villa in Ravello, Italy, Vidal Read More

2003
ER: A Boy Falling Out of the Sky

Synopsis: Abby (Maura Tierney) has just about reached the end of her rope: Her biploar brother, Eric, has vanished, and her bipolar mother Maggie (Sally Field) has come back into her life. As Carter (Noah Wyle) tries to help Abby cope with her many burdens, a shaken and humbled Kovac (Goran Visnjic) returns Read More

2003
American Experience: Ansel Adams - A Documentary Film

Actors: David Ogden Stiers, Josh Hamilton, Barbara Feldon, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Ansel Adams chronicles the life and art of one of America's best-loved photographers. Raised by a doting father who encouraged Adams' eccentricities, the young boy focused his intense energy on becoming a concert pianist. Adams discovered his life's work, however, when he visited Yosemite Valley Read More

2002
A Taste of Jupiter

Actors: Eli Wallach, Teri Garr

Synopsis: Eight lives converge in Little Italy when a celestial event brings Venus and Jupiter together in the night sky. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

2002
The Job: Betrayal

2002
The Cinerama Adventure

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Russ Tamblyn, Leonard Maltin

2002
Keeping the Faith

Actors: Edward Norton, Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Actor Edward Norton debuts as a director with this comedy-drama about love, friendship, and faith. Priest Brian Finn (Norton) and rabbi Jacob Schram (Ben Stiller) have known each other since childhood. When Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman), whom they both knew as children, returns to New York, both men Read More

4/14/00
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: A documentary about the iconic career of actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows traces its subject's work from his earliest days in Hollywood to his award-winning (and career-salvaging) films of the 1990s. Directed by Bruce Ricker, who also made the lauded jazz Read More

2000
Uninvited

Actors: Kevin Isola, Adam Hann-Byrd, Stephen Mendillo, Patricia Dunnock, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Vanessa Redgrave, Eli Wallach, and Franco Nero appear in this courtroom drama about the bloody slaying of a New York businessman, his wife, and their children. Tony Grasso (Kevin Isola), a loner who has a long-running obsession with the mother of the slain family, is arrested based on questionable Read More

1999
Jones Beach: An American Riviera

Actors: Eli Wallach

Synopsis: From its inception in 1928 through the present day, New York State's Jones Beach reigned as a populist paradise and one of the most common resort destinations in the United States. Conceived and designed by Robert Moses, then the director of the Long Island State Park Commission and one of the Read More

1999
Slapstick, Too!

Actors: Eli Wallach

Synopsis: In the early years of cinema, nothing kept audiences in stitches quite like a good dose of physical comedy -- affectionately known as slapstick. Though it may not be as prevalent today as it was in the days of Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and W.C. Fields, audiences can still look back on this Read More

1998
The Search for Dracula

Synopsis: This documentary investigates the origins of the Dracula legend, and explores the possibility that he (or vampires like him) may have actually existed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1996
The Associate

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: In this comedy, a woman discovers that it's impossible to get ahead in business without a man to guide her -- so she invents one. Laurel (Whoopi Goldberg) is an expert financial analyst with a top Wall Street brokerage; however, she keeps getting passed over for raises and promotions, and she's Read More

1996
Two Much

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Danny Aiello

Synopsis: This Spanish-American production stars Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, whose romance on the set helped the film set box-office records in Spain. Director Fernando Treuba, who won an Oscar for Belle Epoque, made his English-language debut with Two Much, an updated screwball comedy. Banderas Read More

1995
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey

Actors: Elia Kazan

Synopsis: This documentary on the life and work of Academy award-winning director Elia Kazan highlights his colorful life on Broadway and in film, which is exemplified by such classic movies as East of Eden,A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and Gentleman's Agreement. Kazan's life outside the Read More

1995
Zegota: Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland 1942-45

Actors: Eli Wallach

1994
Honey Sweet Love

Actors: Jo Champa, Eli Wallach, Ben Cross, Luigi Petrucci, Luigi Montini

Synopsis: This WWII-set romantic drama centers on a British officer whose visit to a Sicilian village becomes an unforgettable experience after he falls in love with a local beauty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Reading Rainbow: Once There Was a Tree

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: There is a scientific emphasis in this episode of Reading Rainbow, as host LeVar Burton discusses the importance of trees in the environment. Reading Rainbow: Once There Was a Tree looks at the way in which trees grow and their role in ecosystems. Viewers can also see how maple syrup is produced Read More

1994
Night and the City

Actors: Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman, Alan King, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Night and the City is a remake of the 1950 Richard Widmark vehicle of the same name. Major changes: As played by Robert DeNiro, the Widmark character, one Harry Fabian, is no longer merely a two-bit tout but instead a two-bit lawyer; and the film is set in New York, as opposed to the London Read More

10/16/92
Mistress

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Successful character actor Barry Primus spent seven years trying to get financing for his feature debut as a writer-director, Mistress. In the film, a once-promising writer-director, Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl), who now directs instructional videos, is sitting home one night, watching his own Read More

8/7/92
Article 99

Actors: Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Lea Thompson, John C. McGinley, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: The title Article 99 refers to a fictional legal loophole which states that American veterans cannot be treated in VA hospitals unless their illnesses are related to their military service. The pinchpenny administrator of a Kansas City hospital intends to follow this proviso to the letter, while Read More

3/13/92
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Jeff Daniels, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story is a made-for-cable adaptation of James Neff's Mobbed Up, a real-life account about Teamster president Jackie Presser. Brian Dennehy plays Presser, who was Jimmy Hoffa's successor as president of the Teamsters. Like Hoffa, Presser was caught between the Read More

1992
Law & Order: The Working Stiff

Synopsis: There is no shortage of suspects when a famous Wall Street corporate raider is murdered. Virtually everyone in New York had ample reason to hate the "King of the Takeovers" -- but did that hatred extend to the ailing union leader (Eli Wallach) whose gun was stolen to possibly commit the crime? Read More

1992
American Experience: The Donner Party

Synopsis: In 1846, a group of over eighty Westward-bound pioneers were headed to the coast of California from Illinois, which had itself only recently been brought up to "civilized" status. They made it to a pass high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California when they were halted by a truly monstrous Read More

1992
Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Synopsis: By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on his job tenaciously, having a strong sense of history. This is the third of four programs in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter Read More

1992
Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Synopsis: This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days and hours of Abraham Lincoln's life. Viewers watch as Lincoln's enemies plot their final revenge on the man they believed had dishonored their heritage. The video also reveals Read More

1992
Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Synopsis: A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This is the first of four videos in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, this program is narrated by renowned actor James Read More

1992
Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Synopsis: President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the Read More

1992
Legacy of Lies

Actors: Michael Ontkean

Synopsis: Michael Ontkean stars as Zack Resnick, an honest Chicago cop drawn into a political assassination who discovers some shocking information about himself and his family. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
A Family Matter

Actors: Eric Roberts, Carol Alt, Eli Wallach, Burt Young

Synopsis: Originally titled Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride, this 2-part TV movie stars supermodel Carol Alt as Nancy, the ward of Mafia don Frank Latella (Eli Wallach). Part One gets off to an explosive start when Nancy witnesses her father's murder. Raised by Latella, our heroine lives for the day that Read More

1991
The Godfather Part III

Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Sofia Coppola, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: After a break of more than 15 years, director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo returned to the well for this third and final story of the fictional Corleone crime family. Two decades have passed, and crime kingpin Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), now divorced from his wife Kay (Diane Read More

12/25/90
The Two Jakes

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The Two Jakes is the much-delayed and rather convoluted sequel to the 1975 classic Chinatown. Released in 1990 after an abortive stab at shooting that began in the mid-'80s, the film was the subject of a creative feud between its principals, star Jack Nicholson, producer Robert Evans, and Read More

8/10/90
Terezin Diary

Synopsis: This Holocaust documentary focuses on Terezin, a little-known camp used by the Nazis for the internment of Jews. It was turned into a "Potemkin Village," or false town, and in 1944 it was (successfully) used to convince the Red Cross and others that Jews were merely being relocated rather than Read More

1989
Murder, She Wrote: A Very Good Year for Murder

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to wine-growing country to help wealthy vintner Salvatori Gambini (Eli Wallach) celebrate his 75th birthday. Unfortunately, Gambini's fractious family isn't in a celebratory mood, and the festivities come to a grim climax when a corpse is found in the wine cellar. Read More

1988
Nuts

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: High-priced hooker Barbra Streisand has been arrested for the murder of one of her clients. The attorney engaged by Streisand's parents hope to cop an insanity plea so that she can avoid a trial and manslaughter conviction. But she refuses this, citing a proviso in New York law that may result in Read More

11/20/87
The Impossible Spy

Actors: John Shea, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The British/US co-production The Impossible Spy is based on the life and career of Israeli undercover agent Elie Cohen. The story begins in 1959, with the Egyptian-born Cohen (John Shea) being recruited by the Israeli Mossad. Cohen, a mild-mannered Jewish accountant, wants no part of espionage Read More

1987
Tough Guys

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Dana Carvey, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas team up one last time in Tough Guys. Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust Read More

10/3/86
Rocket to the Moon

Synopsis: A middle-aged dentist who is frustrated and bored with his commonplace life looks for greater adventure. This appeared on the PBS "American Playhouse." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Spark Among the Ashes

Synopsis: In this documentary, join 13-year-old Eric Strom as he travels to Cracow, Poland for his Bar Mitzvah -- the first such ceremony held there since the Holocaust. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Something in Common

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Something in Common is a made-for-television comedy about a middle-aged, widowed career woman (Ellen Burstyn) who discovers that her grown son is having a love affair with a woman (Tuesday Weld) her own age. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Murder: By Reason of Insanity

Actors: Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Murder: By Reason of Insanity was inspired by a disastrous series of events occurring in New York State in 1979. Candice Bergen portrays a Polish immigrant housewife whose husband Jurgen Prochnow has subjected her to years of physical abuse. At first, she tells herself that he is acting out of Read More

1985
Embassy

Synopsis: Nick Mancuso stars in the made-for-TV Embassy. Cast as an American ambassador stationed in Rome, Mancuso's life is thrown into turmoil by a crucial computer chip. When not trying to keep U.S. defense secrets from falling into the wrong hands, he must juggle the affections of his Read More

1985
Christopher Columbus

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Leading man Gabriel Byrne adds a "Harlequin Romance" dash to the two-part, six-hour TV movie Christopher Columbus. Seeking out a swifter route to the lucrative Indies, Genoa-born Columbus begs King John of Portugal (Max Von Sydow) to finance a westbound expedition. Failing this, he turns to Read More

1985
Our Family Honor

Synopsis: The 1985 TV series Our Family Honor opened to excellent reviews, but the ratings were tepid and the project lasted a mere three months. The series spotlighted two rival New York families: The McKays, three generations of law enforcement officers, and the Danzigs, who are organized-crime Read More

1985
Sam's Son

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Timothy Patrick Murphy, Hallie Todd, Alan Hayes

Synopsis: This largely autobiographical story written and directed by Michael Landon stars Timothy Patrick Murphy as Gene Orowitz (Landon's real name was Eugene Orowitz), a frail teenager with a talent for throwing the javelin and a close relationship to his father Sam (Eli Wallach), the manager of a movie Read More

1984
Anatomy of an Illness

Actors: Ed Asner

Synopsis: Edward Asner stars as Saturday Review editor Norman Cousins in this made-for-TV biopic, which first aired May 15, 1984. Stricken with a degenerative spinal illness in 1964, Cousins refuses to accept the prognosis that he must spend the rest of his life as a virtual vegetable. He battles his Read More

1984
The Executioner's Song

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach, Christine Lahti, Steven Keats

Synopsis: Tommy Lee Jones won an Emmy for his searing performance as wanton killer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song. The film covers the last nine months of Gilmore's life, beginning with his release from prison in 1976. Linking up with teen-age divorcee Nicole Baker (Rosanna Arquette), Gilmore makes Read More

1982
The Wall

Synopsis: It could be said that without the incredible success of the ABC miniseries Holocaust in 1978, CBS might have thought twice before greenlighting the ambitious, three-hour TV docudrama The Wall four years later. Adapted by Millard Lampell from his own 1960 Broadway play, which in turn was inspired Read More

1982
The Salamander

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Martin Balsam, Sybil Danning

Synopsis: Dante Matucci (Franco Nero), a counter-intelligence officer, uncovers a fascist plot to overthrow the Italian government, and as he begins to investigate, he has an ally in Bruno Manzini (Anthony Quinn), a man dedicated to hunting down war criminals. Bruno and other operatives, including the Read More

1981
Skokie

Actors: Danny Kaye, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: Skokie is the true story of a critical test of Constitutional rights in Illinois. In 1977, a small band of American neo-fascists calling itself the National Socialist Party of America plans to stage a swastika-dominated demonstration and rally. Their intended site is the Chicago suburb of Skokie Read More

1981
Fugitive Family

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Eli Wallach, Richard Crenna, Don Murray

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Fugitive Family questions the efficacy of the government's witness protection program. After sending syndicate kingpin Anthony Durano (Mel Ferrer) to prison, undercover agent Brian Roberts (Richard Crenna) and his entire family is marked for death by Durano's successor Peter Read More

1980
The Pride of Jesse Hallam

Actors: Johnny Cash, Brenda Vaccaro, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: In this moving made-for-cable television drama, Jesse Hallam is a poor and illiterate coal miner (Johnny Cash) who must learn to read in order to get a job in the city. He was forced to leave after one of his daughters becomes terribly sick. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
The Hunter

Actors: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Steve McQueen's last film concerns a modern day bounty hunter who searches for bail jumpers. Based on real life bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson, the film details his exciting life, traveling from one city to another, trying to track down fugitives and continually risking his life in the Read More

1980
Winter Kills

Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Based on a novel by the iconoclastic Richard Condon (of Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi's Honor fame), Winter Kills was one of the vanguard efforts in the "JFK conspiracy" school of literature. Jeff Bridges stars as Nick Kegan, the scion of a powerful Kennedyesque family, who has done his best to Read More

1979
Sabbath of Peace

Synopsis: Delve into the meaning of the Sabbath. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Firepower

Actors: Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson, Eli Wallach, Anthony Franciosa

Synopsis: Set in the Caribbean, Firepower is one of those "celebrity salads," featuring a glittering all-star cast. Sophia Loren heads the ensemble as Adele, the widow of a murdered chemist. Believing that a multimillionaire industrialist is the culprit, Adele determines that she can expect no help from the Read More

1979
Movie, Movie

Actors: George C. Scott, Barbara Harris, Eli Wallach, Trish VanDevere, Red Buttons

Synopsis: This spoof of a "typical" double-feature bill of the 1930s is introduced by George Burns, who explains that we're about to see two classic films produced by the legendary Warren Brothers. The first, "Dynamite Fists," is a black-and-white takeoff of such boxing dramas as Golden Boy. Harry Hamlin Read More

1978
Girlfriends

Actors: Melanie Mayron, Eli Wallach, Anita Skinner, Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest

Synopsis: One of the first fictional efforts by former documentary maker Claudia Weill, Girlfriends focuses on a pair of roommates, Susan Weinblatt and Anne Munroe, played by Melanie Mayron and Anita Skinner. Anne gets married, leaving the plump, insecure Susan alone for virtually the first time in her Read More

1978
Harold Robbins' The Pirate

Actors: Anne Archer, Olivia Hussey, Franco Nero

Synopsis: This four-hour TV movie is one more of novelist Harold Robbins' "guess who everyone is supposed to really be?" wallowfests (with nary a Jolly Roger in sight). The "pirate" is Baydr (Franco Nero), an anti-Semitic Lebanese oil sheik, who, unbeknownst to himself, is actually an Israel-born Jew Read More

1978
Circle of Iron

Actors: David Carradine, Jeff Cooper, Roddy McDowall, Eli Wallach, Erica Creer

Synopsis: This symbol-laden drama explores the inner mythology of martial arts practice and is based on a Bruce Lee story idea. The original screenplay was written by Bruce Lee, with help from actor James Coburn and screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. Lee was to take on the four-in-one role of guide in his Read More

1978
Seventh Avenue

Synopsis: Seventh Avenue followed Captains and the Kings and Once an Eagle as the third attraction on NBC's Best Sellers series of 1976-77. This adaptation of Norman Borger's novel stars Steven Keats as Jay Blackman, who rises from the New York tenements of the 1930s to become a powerful figure in the Read More

1977
The Domino Principle

Actors: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert

Synopsis: Stanley Kramer directed this paranoid thriller involving a murderer who is inexplicably released from prison by a mysterious organization. Gene Hackman is Roy Tucker, serving time in San Quentin when he's busted out by a secret organization in return for having to assassinate an unnamed person. Read More

1977
The Deep

Actors: Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Jr., Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, also wrote The Deep. Scuba divers David Sanders and Gail Berke (Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset), assisted by Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), discover a sunken treasure off the Bermuda coast. They also find a stash of narcotics. David and Gail spend the rest of the Read More

1977
20 Shades of Pink

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: The made for TV 20 Shades of Pink stars real-life husband and wife Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson as a happily married blue collar couple. Wallach is perfectly content to work as a house painter, but Jackson, hoping to fatten the family bank account, talks her husband into opening his own business. Read More

1976
Aces High

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Malcolm McDowell plays a World War I air ace, in charge of an elite squadron. Outwardly a bastion of courage, McDowell dies a little every time one of his boys is killed. To steel his nerves, he takes to drink, which has an adverse effect on his abilities. Christopher Plummer staunchly portrays Read More

1976
Independence

Actors: William Atherton, Pat Hingle, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: Historical overview of the events and personalities involved in the creation of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Nasty Habits

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Melina Mercouri, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: An all-star female cast (Glenda Jackson, Melina Mecouri, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Anne Jackson, Anne Meara, and Dame Edith Evans) enliven this satirical treatment of the Nixon Watergate scandal, Nasty Habits -- based on Muriel Sparks's novella The Abbess of Crewe. When a dying abbess (Dame Read More

1976
The Sentinel

Actors: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, José Ferrer

Synopsis: In the wake of such Satanic-themed thrillers as Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen comes The Sentinel. When New York fashion model (Cristina Raines) splits with her fiance (Chris Sarandon) and moves into an old brownstone, she soon discovers she has more than she bargained for in the Read More

1976
Attenti al Buffone

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Eli Wallach, Mariangela Melato, Enzo Cannavale

Synopsis: In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man's wife as his own. Unlike David, however, Ras wants to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined. He forces Marcello Read More

12/20/75
Il Bianco, Il Giallo, Il Nero

Actors: Giuliano Gemma, Tomas Milian, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The Emperor of Japan has sent the U.S. President a very special Asian horse. Three incredible rogues hear of this horse and decide to kidnap it for a $500,000 ransom. One of them, the "white" is Giuliano Gemma, a grandiose kleptomaniac. Tomás Milian is the "yellow," a Japanese samurai, and the Read More

1/17/75
Kojak: A Question of Answers, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Kojak's two-part Season Three opener (originally seen as a single two-hour "special" episode), Kojak (Telly Savalas) continues putting pressure on an unjustly jailed man to turn state's evidence against the loan shark who framed him. This is the first step in an overall plan Read More

1975
Kojak: A Question of Answers, Part 1

Synopsis: Season Three of Kojak begins with the first episode of a two-part story (originally seen as a single two-hour offering), in which NYPD lieutenant Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) is out to get the goods on a mob-controlled loan racket. The hoods specialize in killing those who can't pay up, meaning that Read More

1975
A Question of Answers

Synopsis: Question of Answers was the 2-hour, third-season opener of the TV series Kojak. Lieutenant Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) is on the trail of a mob-backed loan shark, who has a habit of closing out his defaulting accounts with knives and bullets. The Lieutenant is forced to count on the cooperation of Read More

1975
Crazy Joe

Actors: Mario Erpichini, Nella Dina, Timothy Holley

Synopsis: This graphically violent crime drama follows the relatively brief career of the notorious racketeer Crazy Joe Gallo, who formed an alliance with all of New York City's African-American gangs while serving time in Attica. Once he got out, he used that alliance to try and take over the Mafia, an act Read More

2/8/74
Indict and Convict

Synopsis: District Attorney Sam Belden (William Shatner) is accused of murdering his wife and lover. Belden claims it was impossible, because he was 150 miles from the murder scene and he can prove it. It is up to prosecutor Bob Mathews (George Grizzard) to blow holes into Belden's alibi -- a difficult and Read More

1974
L'Ultima Chance

Synopsis: Wallach and Testi rob a jewelry store, and when Wallach suspects a double cross, he goes to the Stateline Motel to collect the jewels. An Italian The Postman Always Rings Twice ~ All Movie Guide Read More

9/14/73
Cinderella Liberty

Actors: Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, James Caan

Synopsis: A "Cinderella Liberty" is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight. Sailor John Baggs, Jr. (James Caan) has such a pass, and intends to make the most of it while his ship is docked in Seattle. He "wins" prostitute Maggie (Marsha Mason) in a pool game, but backs off at a "wham-bam-thank you Read More

1973
The Chill Factor

Actors: Robert Culp, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: This talky but ultimately satisfying made-for-TV sci-fi/thriller stars Robert Culp and Eli Wallach as Drs. Jones and Enari, a bickering pair of scientists dispatched to a remote arctic research station to study the behavior patterns in a colony of monkeys after members of the previous research Read More

1973
Don't Turn the Other Cheek

Actors: Eduardo Fajardo, Horst Janson, Marilù Tolo, Lynn Redgrave, Eli Wallach, Franco Nero

Synopsis: An Irish journalist (Lynn Redgrave) will do anything she can to support a peasant revolution in Mexico. The rogues played by Franco Nero and Eli Wallach will do almost anything for money, but they will also do a lot for a charming lady: particularly when she has saved one of them from certain Read More

12/22/71
Romance of a Horsethief

Actors: Mira Blaskovic, Nada Cibic, Maria Mizar, Alenka Rancic, Dina Rutic, Henri Sera, Mile Sosa, Vera Stanojevic, Eugen Werber, Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Jane Birkin, Oliver Tobias, Lainie Kazan

Synopsis: In Polish Russia, Stoloff (Yul Brynner), a Cossack in exile from his land and family, has gained control over a small Jewish village. The villagers live mainly by horse-thievery, under the leadership of Kifke (Eli Wallach). Stoloff's regime is tolerated with difficulty until he commandeers the Read More

1971
The Typists

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: Veteran husband and wife acting team Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson return to the roles that they created in the 1963 Off-Broadway musical in Kultur video's release of playwright Murray Schisgal's The Typists. As a married man and a spinster resign themselves to a fate of mindless duplication in a Read More

1971
The People Next Door

Actors: Eli Wallach, Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: Parents worry about their daughter when she freaks out on drugs and is hospitalized. Arthur (Eli Wallach) and Gerri (Julie Harris) face the reality when Maxie (Deborah Winters) must remain at the facility or return home. Della (Rue McClanahan) is Arthur's straight shooting secretary and mistress Read More

1970
The Adventures of Gerard

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Peter McEnery

Synopsis: Peter McEnery stars as Col. Etienne Girard, Hussar officer of the Napoleonic era. The story takes place during the Little Corporal's 1808 campaign in the Spanish peninsula. Col. Gerard's adventures include an ongoing war of nerves against Napoleon's forces, not to mention a steamy affair with one Read More

1970
Zigzag

Actors: George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Steve Ihnat, Joan Tompkins

Synopsis: False Witness is the British title of the American thriller Zigzag, which in turn was partially inspired by the 1950 film D.O.A. George Kennedy plays an insurance investigator who learns that he is dying from a brain tumor. Hoping to provide for his family, Kennedy confesses to a murder he didn't Read More

1970
The Angel Levine

Actors: Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Gloria Foster

Synopsis: Bernard Malamud seldom saw his works faithfully transferred to the screen (take a look at The Natural sometime), but he issued no complaints over the cinemazation of his The Angel Levine. Zero Mostel plays an elderly Jew whose life experiences have left him an embittered agnostic. Into Mostel's Read More

1970
Le Cerveau

Actors: Bourvil, David Niven, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The Brain (Le Cerveau) is a tongue-in-cheek caper film with more twists and turns than a rural Oregon highway. David Niven plays The Brain, so named because it was he who mapped out the British Great Train Robbery (it says here). Now The Brain plans to lift a fortune in NATO money, which is being Read More

3/7/69
MacKenna's Gold

Actors: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Julie Newmar, Keenan Wynn, Lee J. Cobb, Burgess Meredith, Edward G. Robinson, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Mackenna's Gold is a colorful, action-packed western feature with an all-star cast. Mackenna (Gregory Peck) has committed to memory the map that leads to some hidden Apache gold. The Indians now want the gold to finance their fight against the white men who invade their territory. Mexican bandit Read More

1969
Ace High

Actors: Eli Wallach, Bud Spencer, Brock Peters, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: There isn't much disagreement as to whether this spaghetti western is styled after the Director Sergio Leone's Clint Eastwood blockbuster, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Ace High, directed by Giuseppe Colizzi, and filmed in Almeria, Spain, is missing at least two ingredients that could possibly Read More

10/31/68
Revenge at El Paso

Synopsis: In this exciting western, a condemned killer is just about to swing when a bank president hires him to find the outlaws who just robbed his bank. The man must be very careful though, as these outlaws are quite clever. Action ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1968
A Lovely Way to Die

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach, Kenneth Haigh, Sharon Farrell

Synopsis: Schuyler (Kirk Douglas) is a hard-boiled detective who turns in his badge when he believes the criminals are being handled with kid gloves and too much respect. He is hired by prominent attorney Fredericks (Eli Wallach) as a bodyguard for his client Rena (Sylva Koscina), who is accused of Read More

1968
How to Save a Marriage (And Ruin Your Life)

Actors: Jack Albertson, Dean Martin, Monroe Arnold, Katherine Bard, Betty Field, Anne Jackson, George Furth

Synopsis: Friends don't let friends mess around on the side in this comedy, though it quickly becomes obvious that making this happen isn't as easy as it may sound. When David Sloane (Dean Martin), a single lawyer with an eye for the ladies, learns that his best friend, Harry Hunter (Eli Wallach), has been Read More

1968
The Tiger Makes Out

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Bob Dishy, John Harkins, Ruth White

Synopsis: Expanded from a two-character play by Murray Schisgal, this comedy stars Eli Wallach as Ben Harris, a disgruntled New York City mail carrier. Harris is fed up with being cheated by his landlords, the Kellys (Roland Wood and Ruth White), so he terrorizes them and the city's housing authority until Read More

1967
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffré, Rada Rassimov, Mario Brega

Synopsis: In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless bounty hunter, and Read More

12/23/66
The Poppy Is Also a Flower

Actors: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Georges Géret

Synopsis: This exciting adventure provides an interesting look into the manufacture and trafficking of opium and heroin. The original story was written by Ian Fleming who died shortly before he was to pen the screenplay. The story is set in Iran and opens as an American undercover agent is murdered in the Read More

1966
How to Steal a Million

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: In this elegant "caper" film, Audrey Hepburn stars as the daughter of a wealthy Parisian (Hugh Griffith), whose hobby is copying famous works of art. His replica of a famed Cellini sculpture is inadvertently displayed in an art museum, and he begins to worry that he'll lose his reputation once the Read More

1966
Genghis Khan

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason, Eli Wallach, Françoise Dorléac

Synopsis: The internationally produced historical epic Genghis Khan sometimes wavers uncertainly between spectacle and self-parody. Though Omar Sharif essays the title role, top billing is bestowed upon Stephen Boyd as Genghis Khan's mentor-turned-enemy Jamuga. It's hard to generate audience sympathy for a Read More

1965
Lord Jim

Actors: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Jack Hawkins, Eli Wallach, Daliah Lavi

Synopsis: Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer Richard Brooks for the action-and-adventure crowd. Peter O'Toole plays the first officer of a tramp steamer, who, during a hurricane, cravenly abandons ship, leaving the passengers to Read More

1965
The Moon-Spinners

Actors: Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery, Joan Greenwood, Irene Papas

Synopsis: Disney produced this distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children. Hayley Mills stars as Nikky Ferris who is spending time in Crete at a small inn called The Moon-Spinners with her Aunt Frances (Joan Greenwood). One day Nikky discovers a handsome young man, Mark Read More

1964
Kisses for My President

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Polly Bergen, Arlene Dahl, Edward Andrews, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Behind every great woman, there's a man who isn't so sure he's happy to be there -- or at least that's the state of affairs in this gender-switch comedy. Leslie McCloud (Polly Bergen) makes history when she becomes the first woman elected to the office of President of the United States. However Read More

1964
The Victors

Actors: George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, Vince Edwards, James Mitchum, Rosanna Schiaffino, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the novel The Human Kind by Alexander Baron. It follows the adventures of an American infantry platoon based in Sicily that participates in the invasion of France, marches into Read More

1963
Act One

Actors: George Hamilton, Jason Robards, Jr., Jack Klugman, Sam Levene, Ruth Ford, Eli Wallach, George Segal

Synopsis: This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss (George Hamilton) struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy. He suffers through a series of professional and romantic failures before a meeting with George S. Kaufman (Jason Robards Jr Read More

1963
How the West Was Won

Actors: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Widmark, George Peppard, Karl Malden, John Wayne

Synopsis: Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall) combine their skills to tell the story of three families and their travels from the Erie Canal to California between 1839 Read More

1962
Adventures of a Young Man

Actors: Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Paul Newman, Corinne Calvet, Fred Clark, Ricardo Montalban, Dan Dailey

Synopsis: The "official" title of this film is Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man; its screenplay is adapted from semi-autobiographical "Nick Adams" stories written by Ernest Hemingway. Played by Richard Beymer (West Side Story), Nick Adams is a young Michigan boy who sets out in the early 1900s to learn Read More

1962
The Misfits

Actors: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The final film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe is an elegy for the death of the Old West from writer Arthur Miller and director John Huston. Gable stars as Gay Langland, an aging hand traveling the byways and working at rodeos with his two comrades, Guido (Eli Wallach) and young Perce Read More

1961
Naked City: A Death of Princes

1960
Lullaby

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Ruth White, Thomas Carlin

1960
Seven Thieves

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach, Alexander Scourby

Synopsis: Discredited professor Edward G. Robinson organizes a seven-person criminal gang. Robinson plans to steal a fortune from the underground vaults of the Monte Carlo casino. Despite a few tense moments, the plot moves like clockwork. Alas, Robinson isn't around long enough to enjoy the fruits of his Read More

1960
The Magnificent Seven

Actors: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn

Synopsis: Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual invasion by bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach). As Elmer Bernstein's unforgettable theme music (later Read More

1960
The Gift of the Magi

1958
The Lineup

Actors: Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Warner Anderson, Richard Jaeckel, Mary Laroche

Synopsis: A steamship docks in San Francisco, and as one of the passengers, Philip Dressler (Raymond Bailey), is waiting for a cab after clearing customs, a baggage handler suddenly grabs one of his cases and throws it into a taxi, which takes off. In the ensuing getaway, a police officer is killed, but not Read More

1958
Shirley Temple's Storybook [TV Series]

1958
Seven Lively Arts: The World of Nick Adams

Actors: John Crosby, Steven Hill, William Smithers, Eli Wallach, Olive Deering

Synopsis: One of the better entries in the short-lived CBS Sunday-afternoon anthology The Seven Lively Arts, "The World of Nick Adams" was adapted by A.E. Hotchner from five different Ernest Hemingway short stories: "The End of Something," " "Three Day Blow," "The Light of the World," "The Battler," "Now I Read More

1957
Baby Doll

Actors: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock, Lonny Chapman

Synopsis: Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton was the basis for this steamy sex seriocomedy. Karl Malden stars as the doltish owner of a Southern cotton gin. He is married to luscious teenager Carroll Baker, who steadfastly refuses to sleep with her husband until she reaches the age of 20. Her Read More

1956
Danger

Synopsis: This Trilogy, Danger originally created for television by Sidney Lumet consists of three individual episodes, all in the film noir thriller style The Lady on the Rock, Death Among the Relics, and The System. The cast includes Kim Stanley and Eli Wallach. Director Lumet began his filmmaking career Read More

1952

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