University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin (B.A.)
City College of New York

City College of New York (M.Ed.)
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1945–2014
Known for
Tuco, Calvera, Guido, Don Altobello, Cotton Weinberger, Arthur Abbott,
Mr. Freeze, Silva Vacarro
Notable work
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Magnificent Seven, The Godfather
Part III, Batman, The Holiday, The Two Jakes, The Misfits, Baby Doll
Spouse(s)
Anne Jackson

Anne Jackson (m. 1948; his death 2014)
Children
3
Relatives
Joan Wallach Scott
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Joan Wallach Scott (niece)
A. O. Scott
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A. O. Scott (grandnephew)
Awards
BAFTA Awards, Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, Honorary Academy Award
Signature
Eli Herschel Wallach (/ˈiːlaɪ ˈwɔːlək/; December 7, 1915 –
June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor whose
career spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s.
Trained in stage acting, which he enjoyed doing most, he became "one
of the greatest 'character actors' ever to appear on stage and
screen",[1] with over 90 film credits. On stage, he often co-starred
with his wife, Anne Jackson, becoming one of the best-known acting
couples in the American theater. As a stage and screen character
actor, Wallach had one of the longest ever careers in show business,
spanning 62 years from his Broadway debut to his last major Hollywood
studio movie.
Wallach initially studied method acting under Sanford Meisner, and
later became a founding member of the Actors Studio, where he studied
under Lee Strasberg. His versatility gave him the ability to play a
wide variety of different roles throughout his career, primarily as a
supporting actor.
For his debut screen performance in Baby Doll, he won a BAFTA Award
for Best Newcomer and a
Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award nomination. Among his other
most famous roles are Calvera in
The Magnificent Seven
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The Magnificent Seven (1960), Guido
in The Misfits (1961), and Tuco ("The Ugly") in The Good, the Bad and
the Ugly (1966). Other notable portrayals include outlaw Charlie Gant
in How the West Was Won (1962),
Don Altobello

Don Altobello in The Godfather Part
III, Cotton Weinberger in
The Two Jakes

The Two Jakes (both 1990), and Arthur Abbott
in
The Holiday

The Holiday (2006). One of America's most prolific screen actors,
Wallach remained active well into his nineties, with roles as recently
as 2010 in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Ghost Writer.
Wallach received BAFTA Awards, Tony Awards and Emmy Awards for his
work, and received an
Academy Honorary Award at the second annual
Governors Awards, presented on November 13, 2010.
In March 2017, the
Harry Ransom Center

Harry Ransom Center announced the acquisition of
Wallach's papers, along with those of his wife. It will be made public
when cataloging is complete.[2]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Stage actor
2.2 Film and television roles
3 Personal life
4 Death
5 Roles
6 References
7 External links
Early life[edit]
Wallach was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, at 156 Union Street, a son of
Jewish immigrants Abraham and Bertha (Schorr) Wallach, both from
Poland. He had a brother and two sisters,[3] with his family being the
only
Jews
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Jews in an otherwise
Italian American

Italian American neighborhood.[4][5] His
parents owned Bertha's Candy Store.[6] Wallach graduated in 1936 from
the
University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin with a degree in history.[7] While
at the university, he performed in a play with fellow students Ann
Sheridan and Walter Cronkite. In a later interview, Wallach said that
he learned to ride horses while in Texas, adding that he liked Texas
because "it opened [his] eyes to the word friendship." He explained,
"You could rely on people. If they gave you their word, that was
it ... It was an education."[8]
Two years later he received a master of arts degree in education from
the City College of New York.[9][10] He gained his first method acting
experience at the
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre

Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New
York City, where he studied under Sanford Meisner.[11] There,
according to Wallach, actors were forced to "unlearn" all their
physical and vocal mannerisms, while traditional stage etiquette and
"singsong" deliveries were "utterly excised" from his classroom.[12]
Wallach's education was cut short when he was drafted into the United
States Army in January 1941.[3] He served as staff sergeant in a
military hospital in
Hawaii

Hawaii and later sent to Officer Candidate School
(OCS) in
Abilene, Texas

Abilene, Texas to train as a medical administrative officer.
Commissioned a second lieutenant, he was ordered to Casablanca. Later,
when he was serving in France, a senior officer noticed his acting
career and asked him to create a show for the patients. He and his
unit wrote a play called Is This the Army?, which was inspired by
Irving Berlin's This Is the Army. In the comedy, Wallach and the other
actors mocked Axis dictators, with Wallach portraying Adolf
Hitler.[13]
Career[edit]
Main article:
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach credits
Stage actor[edit]
Wallach took classes in acting at the
Dramatic Workshop of the New
School in New York with the influential German director Erwin
Piscator. He later became a founding member of the Actors Studio,
taught by Lee Strasberg. There, he studied more method acting
technique with founding member Robert Lewis, and with other students
including Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Herbert Berghof, Sidney
Lumet, and his soon-to-be wife, Anne Jackson.[14] Wallach became
Marilyn Monroe's first new friend when she became a student at the
Actors Studio, once insisting on watching him perform in The Teahouse
of the August Moon from the backstage wings, simply to see up close
how experienced actors perform a two-hour play.[15] She also became
friends with his wife, Anne Jackson, also studying at the Studio, and
would visit the couple at their home and sometimes babysit their new
child.[16]
In 1945 Wallach made his Broadway debut and he won a
Tony Award

Tony Award in
1951 for his performance alongside
Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton in the Tennessee
Williams play The Rose Tattoo.[17] His other theater credits include
Mister Roberts, The Teahouse of the August Moon, Camino Real, Major
Barbara (in which director
Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton discouraged Wallach's
established method acting style),[17] Luv, and Staircase, co-starring
Milo O'Shea, which was a serious depiction of an aging homosexual
couple. He also played a role in a tour of Antony and Cleopatra,
produced by the actress
Katharine Cornell

Katharine Cornell in 1946.[18] He exposed
Americans to the work of playwright
Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco in plays like The
Chairs and
The Lesson

The Lesson in 1958, and in 1961 Rhinoceros opposite Zero
Mostel.[17] He last starred on stage as the title character in
Visiting Mr. Green.[19]
With
Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton in
The Rose Tattoo

The Rose Tattoo (1951)
The stage was where Wallach focused his early career. From 1945 to
1950 he and his wife, Anne Jackson, worked together acting in various
plays by Tennessee Williams. The five years following, he continued
only working on stage, not becoming involved in film work until 1956.
During those years, however, they were generally having a hard time
making ends meet. He recalls they were getting along on unemployment
insurance and living in a one-room, $35 a month apartment on lower
Fifth Avenue in the Village.[3] When he did get offered early movie
parts, he turned them down with no regrets, and very early in his
career he explained his reasoning:
What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every
way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like
calendar art next to great paintings. You can't really do very much in
movies or in television, but the stage is such an anarchistic
medium.[3]
He said that the stage was what attracted him most and what he
"needed" to do.[20] "Acting is the most alive thing I can do, and the
most joyous," he stated.[3]
Wallach and Jackson became one of the best-known acting couples in the
American theater, as iconic as
Alfred Lunt

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, and
Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn,[17] and they looked for opportunities
to work together. During an interview, he said of Jackson, "I have
tremendous respect and admiration for her as an actress. . . we have a
terrific working compatibility when we're in the same play, especially
when the play means something important to us."[3] When he did
gravitate toward accepting parts in films, he did so to "help pay the
bills," he said, adding, "for actors, movies are a means to an
end."[21]
Despite the fact that he eventually acted in over 90 films and almost
as many television dramas,[22] he continued to accept stage parts
throughout his career, often with Jackson. They played in comedies
like The Typists and The Tiger in 1963, and acted together in Waltz of
the Toreadors in 1973. In 1978 they played in a revival of The Diary
of Anne Frank, along with their daughters, and in 1984 they acted in
Nest of the Wood Grouse, directed by Joseph Papp. Four years later, in
1988, they acted in a revival of Cafe Crown, a portrait of the Yiddish
theatre scene during its prime.[21] They continued acting together as
late as 2000, while he also took on roles alone throughout all those
years.[21]
Film and television roles[edit]
Wallach and
Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker in the swing scene from Baby Doll
Wallach's film debut was in Elia Kazan's controversial 1956 Baby Doll,
for which he won the
British Academy Film Awards

British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) as "Most
Promising Newcomer."[23]
Baby Doll

Baby Doll was controversial because of its
underlying sexual theme. Director
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan however, set explicit
limits on Wallach's scenes, telling him not to actually seduce Carroll
Baker, but instead to create an unfulfilled erotic tension.[24] Kazan
later explained his reasoning:
What is erotic about sex to me is the seduction, not the act ...
The scene on the swing with
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach and
Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker in Baby Doll
is my exact idea of what eroticism in films should be.[25]
Wallach went on to a prolific career as "one of the greatest
'character actors' ever to appear on stage and screen," notes Turner
Classic Movies,[1] acting in over 90 films.[22] Having grown up on the
"mean streets" of an
Italian American

Italian American neighborhood,[26] and his
versatility as a method actor, Wallach developed the ability to play a
wide variety of different roles, although he tried to not get pinned
down to any single type of character. "Right now I'm playing an old
man," he said at age 84. But "I've been through all the ethnic groups,
from Mexican bandits to Italian Mafia heads to Okinawans to
half-breeds, and now I'm playing old Jews. Who knows?"[8]
Noting this versatility as a character actor, the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences called him "the quintessential chameleon,"
with the ability to play different characters "effortlessly,"[27] and
L.A. Times theater critic
Charles McNulty saw Wallach's "power to
illuminate" his various screen or stage personas as being
"radioactive."[26]
The Guardian

The Guardian newspaper has written that "Wallach
was made for character acting," and includes movie clips from some of
his most memorable roles in a tribute to him.[28]
In 1961, Wallach co-starred with Marilyn Monroe,
Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift and
Clark Gable

Clark Gable in The Misfits, Monroe's and Gable's last film before
their deaths. Wallach never learned why he was cast in the film,
although he suspected that Monroe had something to do with it.[16] Its
screenwriter, Arthur Miller, who was married to Monroe at the time,
said that "
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach is the happiest good actor I've ever known. He
really enjoys the work."[1]
Some of his other films included The Lineup (1958), Lord Jim (1965)
with Peter O'Toole, a comic role in
How to Steal a Million

How to Steal a Million (1966),
again with O'Toole, and Audrey Hepburn, and as Tuco (the 'Ugly') in
Sergio Leone's
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) with Clint
Eastwood, followed by other Spaghetti Westerns, such as Ace High. At
one point,
Henry Fonda
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Henry Fonda had asked Wallach whether he himself should
accept a part offered to him to act in a similar Western, Once Upon a
Time in the West (1968), which would also be directed by Leone.
Wallach said "Yes, you'll enjoy the challenge," and Fonda later
thanked Wallach for that advice.[29]
Wallach and Eastwood became friends during the filming of The Good,
the Bad and the Ugly and he recalled their off-work time together:
"Clint was the tall, silent type. He's the kind where you open up and
do all the talking. He smiles and nods and stores it all away in that
wonderful calculator of a brain."[30] In 2003 Wallach acted in Mystic
River, produced and directed by Eastwood, who once said "working with
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach has been one of the great pleasures of my life."[1]
A pivotal moment in Wallach's career came in 1953, when he, along with
Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra and Harvey Lembeck, tried out for the role of Maggio in
the film From Here to Eternity. Sinatra biographer Kitty Kelly notes
that while Sinatra's test was good, it had none of the "consummate
acting ability" of Wallach. Producer
Harry Cohn

Harry Cohn and director Fred
Zinnemann were "dazzled" by Wallach's screen test and wanted him to
play the part. However, Wallach had previously been offered an
important role in another
Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams play, Camino Real, to be
directed by Elia Kazan, and turned down the movie role. Wallach said
that when he learned that the play had finally received financing, he
"grabbed" the opportunity: "It was a remarkable piece of writing by
the leading playwright in America and it was going to be directed by
the country's best. There really wasn't much of a choice for me."[31]
The film, however, went on to win eight Academy Awards, including one
for Sinatra, which revived his career. Wallach recalled afterwards,
"Whenever Sinatra saw me, he’d say, 'Hello, you crazy actor!'"[4]
Wallach, however, claimed to have no regrets.
Film historian James Welsh states that during Wallach's career, he
appeared in most of the "prestige" television dramas during the
"Golden Age" of the 1950s, including Studio One, The Philco Television
Playhouse, The Armstrong Circle Theatre, Playhouse 90, and The
Hallmark Hall of Fame, among others. He won the 1966–1967 Emmy Award
for his role in the telefilm The Poppy is Also a Flower.[5][32] In
2006 Wallach appeared on NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, playing
a former writer who was blacklisted in the 1950s. His character was a
writer on The Philco Comedy Hour, a show that aired on a fictional NBS
network. This is a reference to The Philco Television Playhouse, in
several episodes of which Wallach actually appeared in 1955. Wallach
earned a 2007 Emmy nomination for his work on the show.[33]
Wallach at the 2010 TCM Classic Film Festival
During the filming of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Wallach nearly
died three times. Once, he accidentally drank a bottle of acid which
was placed next to his pop bottle; another time was in a scene where
he was about to be hanged, someone fired a pistol which caused the
horse underneath him to bolt and run a mile while Wallach's hands were
still tied behind his back; in a different scene with him lying on a
railroad track, he was close to being decapitated by steps jutting out
from the train.[34]
Wallach appeared as DC Comics' supervillain
Mr. Freeze

Mr. Freeze in the 1960s
Batman television series. He said that he received more fan mail about
his role as
Mr. Freeze

Mr. Freeze than about all of his other roles combined.[35]
He played Gus Farber in the television miniseries Seventh Avenue in
1977, and 10 years later, at the age of 71, he starred alongside
Michael Landon in
Highway to Heaven

Highway to Heaven episode " A Father's Faith". Three
years later he played aging mob boss
Don Altobello

Don Altobello in the third
episode of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy.
On November 13, 2010, at the age of 94, Wallach received an Academy
Honorary Award for his contribution to the film industry from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[36] A few years prior to
that event,
Kate Winslet
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Kate Winslet told another audience that Wallach, with whom
she acted in
The Holiday

The Holiday in 2006,[37] was one of the "most charismatic
men" she'd met, and her "very own sexiest man alive."[27]
Wallach's final performance was in the short film The Train (2015).
Wallach plays a holocaust survivor, who in a meeting teaches a
self-consumed and preoccupied young man that life can change in a
moment. The short was shot in early 2014 and premiered on August 6,
2015 at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Between 1984 and 1997, he also did voice overs in a series of
commercials for the Toyota Pickup.
Personal life[edit]
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach was married to stage actress
Anne Jackson

Anne Jackson (1925–2016)
for 66 years from March 5, 1948, until his death. They had three
children: Peter (born 1951), Roberta (born 1955), and Katherine (born
1958). Roberta played an epileptic teenager in Paul Zindel's The
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and appeared in
several other movies.
Wallach was a strict teetotaler and once asked the director John
Huston for advice on how to play a "drunk" scene during the filming of
The Misfits.
A few years before 2005, Wallach lost sight in his left eye as the
result of a stroke.[27]
His niece is the historian
Joan Wallach Scott
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Joan Wallach Scott (the daughter of his
brother, Sam Wallach). A. O. Scott, a film critic for The New York
Times, is his great-nephew.[22]
Death[edit]
Wallach died on June 24, 2014 of natural causes at the age of 98. He
was survived by his wife of 66 years, three children, three
grandchildren and a great-grandchild. His body was cremated.[21][38]
Roles[edit]
Main article:
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach credits
References[edit]
^ a b c d video: "
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach Tribute at the TCM Classic Film Festival
2010" on YouTube, 4 minutes.
^ "Papers of Actors
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach and
Anne Jackson

Anne Jackson Acquired".
www.hrc.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
^ a b c d e f Ross, Lillian, and Helen. The Player: A Profile of an
Art, Simon and Schuster (1962) pp. 159–160.
^ a b "
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach Knows His Lines" – Forward.com.
^ a b "
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach Biography (1915–)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved
January 2, 2011.
^ "Full text of "The Player A Profile Of An Art"". Archive.org.
Retrieved January 2, 2011.
^ "Alumni in the News:
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach to receive lifetime achievement
award" Archived February 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine., Alumni and
Friends, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin.
^ a b The Alcalde: Texas, March 2000.
^ "Marian Seldes,
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach to Receive CCNY Alumni Finley Award",
Newswire, City College of New York, October 19, 2010.
^ "Biography: Eli Wallach", The New York Times.
^ "Eli Wallach, veteran actor, dead at 98", CBS News, June 25, 2014.
^ Gordon, Mel. Stanislavsky in America: An Actor's Workbook, Routledge
(2010) p. 178.
^ "
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach Biography". Starpulse.com. Retrieved June 26,
2014.
^ Lewis, Robert (1996). "Actors Studio, 1947". Slings and Arrows:
Theater in My Life. New York: Applause Books. p. 183.
ISBN 1-55783-244-7.
^ Gottfried, Martin. Arthur Miller: His Life and Work, Da Capo Press
(2003) p. 245.
^ a b Harding, Les. They Knew Marilyn Monroe: Famous Persons in the
Life of the Hollywood Icon, McFarland (2012) p. 154.
^ a b c d Simonson, Robert (June 25, 2014). "Eli Wallach, Seasoned
Star of Stage and Film, Dies at 98". Playbill. Archived from the
original on August 17, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
^ Mosel, "Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell.
^ David Ng. "Eli Wallach, an
Actors Studio

Actors Studio veteran and theater
stalwart". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
^
http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2010/05/tcm-classic-film-festival-2010-good-bad.html
"The Evening Class", TCM interview with Robert Osborne, May 6, 2010.
^ a b c d Berkvist, Robert (June 25, 2014). "Eli Wallach, Multifaceted
Actor, Dies at 98". The New York Times.
^ a b c Scott, A. O. (November 4, 2010). "Eli Wallach, From Brooklyn
to Honorary Oscar". The New York Times.
^ Heintzelman, Greta. Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams,
Infobase Publishing (2005) p. 33.
^ Wallach, Eli. The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage, Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt (2005) p. 172.
^ Young, Jeff. Kazan: The Master Director Discusses his films –
Interviews with Elia Kazan, Newmarket Press (1999) p. 224.
^ a b McNulty, Charles. "
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach had the power to illuminate a
character on stage and screen", Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2014.
^ a b c "
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach dead: Star of
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly dies
aged 98" Mirror U.K. June 25, 2014.
^ "Eli Wallach: a career in clips", The Guardian, June 25, 2014.
^ Schochet, Stephen. Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes
about the Stars and Legend, Hollywood Stories Publishing (2010) p.
118.
^ McGilligan, Patrick. Clint: The Life and Legend, Macmillan (1999) p.
154.
^ Kelly, Kitty. His Way: An Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra,
Random House (2010).
^ Welsch, James M. and Phillips, Gene D. The Francis Ford Coppola
Encyclopedia, Scarecrow Press (2010) p. 273.
^ "List of Emmy Nominations 2007". TVWeek. July 19, 2007. Archived
from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved June 26,
2014.
^ Armour, Philip. The 100 Greatest Western Movies of All Time, Morris
Book Publishing (2011) p. 70.
^ "Eli Wallach, prolific U.S. character actor, dies at 98", Reuters,
June 25, 2014.
^ Eli Wallach's acceptance speech, Honorary Academy Award, Governors'
Award ceremony on YouTube, November 13, 2010.
^
The Holiday

The Holiday - Arthur's award ceremony. August 17, 2011. Retrieved
February 13, 2016 – via YouTube.
^ Reuters Editorial (June 25, 2014). "Eli Wallach, prolific U.S.
character actor, dies at 98". Reuters. Retrieved February 13,
2016.
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download at the Internet Archive
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Awards for Eli Wallach
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e
Academy Honorary Award
1928–1950
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. /
Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin (1928)
Walt Disney

Walt Disney (1932)
Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple (1934)
D. W. Griffith

D. W. Griffith (1935)
The March of Time

The March of Time /
W. Howard Greene and
Harold Rosson (1936)
Edgar Bergen

Edgar Bergen /
W. Howard Greene /
Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art Film Library /
Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett (1937)
J. Arthur Ball /
Walt Disney

Walt Disney /
Deanna Durbin

Deanna Durbin and
Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney /
Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art
Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills,
Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst /
Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey /
Harry Warner

Harry Warner (1938)
Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks /
Judy Garland

Judy Garland /
William Cameron Menzies / Motion
Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad
Nagel)/ Technicolor Company (1939)
Bob Hope

Bob Hope /
Nathan Levinson (1940)
Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA
Manufacturing Company /
Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey
Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer /
Noël Coward

Noël Coward /
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
George Pal
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George Pal (1943)
Bob Hope

Bob Hope /
Margaret O'Brien

Margaret O'Brien (1944)
Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound
Department /
Walter Wanger

Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner
(1945)
Harold Russell

Harold Russell /
Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier /
Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr.
(1946)
James Baskett

James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith,
and
George Kirke Spoor

George Kirke Spoor /
Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
Walter Wanger

Walter Wanger /
Monsieur Vincent

Monsieur Vincent /
Sid Grauman

Sid Grauman /
Adolph Zukor

Adolph Zukor (1948)
Jean Hersholt

Jean Hersholt /
Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire /
Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief
(1949)
Louis B. Mayer

Louis B. Mayer /
George Murphy

George Murphy /
The Walls of Malapaga (1950)
1951–1975
Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly /
Rashomon

Rashomon (1951)
Merian C. Cooper

Merian C. Cooper /
Bob Hope

Bob Hope /
Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph
M. Schenck /
Forbidden Games

Forbidden Games (1952)
20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph
Breen / Pete Smith (1953)
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company /
Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta
Garbo /
Jon Whiteley

Jon Whiteley /
Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor (1956)
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M.
"Broncho Billy" Anderson /
Charles Brackett /
B. B. Kahane (1957)
Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Chevalier (1958)
Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton /
Lee de Forest

Lee de Forest (1959)
Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper /
Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel /
Hayley Mills
.jpg/440px-Hayley_MIlls_and_Firdous_Bamji_at_the_Kennedy_Center,_Washington_D.C_(cropped).jpg)
Hayley Mills (1960)
William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler /
Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins (1961)
William J. Tuttle

William J. Tuttle (1964)
Bob Hope

Bob Hope (1965)
Yakima Canutt

Yakima Canutt /
Y. Frank Freeman

Y. Frank Freeman (1966)
Arthur Freed (1967)
John Chambers /
Onna White (1968)
Cary Grant
_01_Crisco_edit.jpg/440px-Grant,_Cary_(Suspicion)_01_Crisco_edit.jpg)
Cary Grant (1969)
Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish /
Orson Welles

Orson Welles (1970)
Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin (1971)
Charles S. Boren /
Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson (1972)
Henri Langlois

Henri Langlois /
Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx (1973)
Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks /
Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (1974)
Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford (1975)
1976–2000
Margaret Booth (1977)
Walter Lantz

Walter Lantz /
Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier /
King Vidor

King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art
Department of Film (1978)
Hal Elias /
Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness (1979)
Henry Fonda
.JPG/440px-Henry_Fonda_as_Mr._Roberts_1948_(cropped).JPG)
Henry Fonda (1980)
Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney (1982)
Hal Roach
.jpg/440px-WP_Hal_Roach_1920_(cropped).jpg)
Hal Roach (1983)
James Stewart
_01.jpg/440px-Annex_-_Stewart,_James_(Call_Northside_777)_01.jpg)
James Stewart /
National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts (1984)
Paul Newman

Paul Newman /
Alex North (1985)
Ralph Bellamy

Ralph Bellamy (1986)
Eastman
Kodak

Kodak Company /
National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada (1988)
Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa (1989)
Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren /
Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy (1990)
Satyajit Ray
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Satyajit Ray (1991)
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini (1992)
Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr (1993)
Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni (1994)
Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas /
Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones (1995)
Michael Kidd

Michael Kidd (1996)
Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen (1997)
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan (1998)
Andrzej Wajda
.jpg/440px-Andrzej_Wajda_OFF_Plus_Camera_2012_(cropped).jpg)
Andrzej Wajda (1999)
Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff /
Ernest Lehman (2000)
2001–present
Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier /
Robert Redford
.jpg/440px-Robert_Redford_(cropped).jpg)
Robert Redford (2001)
Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole (2002)
Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards (2003)
Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet (2004)
Robert Altman

Robert Altman (2005)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2006)
Robert F. Boyle (2007)
Lauren Bacall
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Lauren Bacall /
Roger Corman

Roger Corman /
Gordon Willis

Gordon Willis (2009)
Kevin Brownlow /
Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard /
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach (2010)
James Earl Jones
.jpg/440px-James_Earl_Jones_(8516667383).jpg)
James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011)
D. A. Pennebaker

D. A. Pennebaker /
Hal Needham

Hal Needham /
George Stevens Jr.

George Stevens Jr. (2012)
Angela Lansbury
.jpg/440px-Angela_Lansbury_(8356239174).jpg)
Angela Lansbury /
Steve Martin

Steve Martin /
Piero Tosi (2013)
Jean-Claude Carrière

Jean-Claude Carrière /
Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki /
Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara (2014)
Spike Lee

Spike Lee /
Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands (2015)
Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan /
Lynn Stalmaster /
Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman
(2016)
Charles Burnett /
Owen Roizman /
Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda
(2017)
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BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Most Promising Newcomer to Film
Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom (1952)
Norman Wisdom
.jpg/440px-Norman_Wisdom_(1965).jpg)
Norman Wisdom (1953)
David Kossoff

David Kossoff (1954)
Paul Scofield

Paul Scofield (1955)
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach (1956)
Eric Barker (1957)
Paul Massie

Paul Massie (1958)
Hayley Mills
.jpg/440px-Hayley_MIlls_and_Firdous_Bamji_at_the_Kennedy_Center,_Washington_D.C_(cropped).jpg)
Hayley Mills (1959)
Most Promising Newcomer to
Leading Film Roles
Albert Finney

Albert Finney (1960)
Rita Tushingham

Rita Tushingham (1961)
Tom Courtenay

Tom Courtenay (1962)
James Fox (1963)
Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews (1964)
Judi Dench

Judi Dench (1965)
Vivien Merchant (1966)
Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway (1967)
Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman (1968)
Jon Voight

Jon Voight (1969)
David Bradley (1970)
Dominic Guard (1971)
Joel Grey

Joel Grey (1972)
Peter Egan (1973)
Georgina Hale

Georgina Hale (1974)
Valerie Perrine
.jpg/440px-Valerie_Perrine_(1975).jpg)
Valerie Perrine (1975)
Jodie Foster
.jpg)
Jodie Foster (1976)
Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert (1977)
Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve (1978)
Dennis Christopher

Dennis Christopher (1979)
Most Outstanding Newcomer to
Leading Film Roles
Judy Davis

Judy Davis (1980)
Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci (1981)
Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley (1982)
Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film
Phyllis Logan
.jpg/440px-Phyllis_Logan_May_2014_(cropped).jpg)
Phyllis Logan (1983)
Haing S. Ngor

Haing S. Ngor (1984)
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Drama League's Distinguished Performance Award
Katharine Cornell

Katharine Cornell (1935)
Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes (1936)
Maurice Evans (1937)
Cedric Hardwicke

Cedric Hardwicke (1938)
Raymond Massey
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Raymond Massey (1939)
Paul Muni

Paul Muni (1940)
Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas (1941)
Judith Evelyn
.jpg)
Judith Evelyn (1942)
Alfred Lunt

Alfred Lunt (1943)
Lynn Fontanne

Lynn Fontanne (1944)
Mady Christians

Mady Christians (1945)
Louis Calhern

Louis Calhern (1946)
Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman (1947)
Judith Anderson

Judith Anderson (1948)
Robert Morley

Robert Morley (1949)
Grace George

Grace George (1950)
Claude Rains

Claude Rains (1951)
Julie Harris (1952)
Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth (1953)
Josephine Hull (1954)
Viveca Lindfors

Viveca Lindfors (1955)
David Wayne

David Wayne (1956)
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach (1957)
Ralph Bellamy

Ralph Bellamy (1958)
Cyril Ritchard

Cyril Ritchard (1959)
Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy (1960)
Hume Cronyn

Hume Cronyn (1961)
Paul Scofield

Paul Scofield (1962)
Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer (1963)
Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness (1964)
John Gielgud

John Gielgud (1965)
Richard Kiley

Richard Kiley (1966)
Rosemary Harris

Rosemary Harris (1967)
Zoe Caldwell (1968)
Alec McCowen

Alec McCowen (1969)
James Stewart
_01.jpg/440px-Annex_-_Stewart,_James_(Call_Northside_777)_01.jpg)
James Stewart (1970)
Anthony Quayle

Anthony Quayle (1971)
Eileen Atkins /
Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom (1972)
Alan Bates

Alan Bates (1973)
Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer (1974)
John Wood (1975)
Eva Le Gallienne

Eva Le Gallienne (1976)
Tom Courtenay

Tom Courtenay (1977)
Frank Langella

Frank Langella (1978)
Frances Sternhagen

Frances Sternhagen (1979)
Roy Scheider

Roy Scheider (1980)
Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen (1981)
Milo O'Shea

Milo O'Shea (1982)
Edward Herrmann

Edward Herrmann /
Kate Nelligan (1983)
Jeremy Irons
_(cropped).jpg/440px-SDCC_2015_-_Jeremy_Irons_(19524260758)_(cropped).jpg)
Jeremy Irons (1984)
Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi (1985)
Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters (1986)
James Earl Jones
.jpg/440px-James_Earl_Jones_(8516667383).jpg)
James Earl Jones (1987)
John Lithgow

John Lithgow (1988)
Pauline Collins

Pauline Collins (1989)
Robert Morse

Robert Morse (1990)
Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing (1991)
Glenn Close

Glenn Close (1992)
Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea (1993)
Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston (1994)
Cherry Jones

Cherry Jones (1995)
Uta Hagen

Uta Hagen (1996)
Charles Durning

Charles Durning /
Bebe Neuwirth
.jpg/400px-Drama_League_2010_Bebe_Neuwirth_(cropped).jpg)
Bebe Neuwirth (1997)
Brian Stokes Mitchell

Brian Stokes Mitchell (1998)
Kathleen Chalfant (1999)
Eileen Heckart (2000)
Mary-Louise Parker

Mary-Louise Parker /
Gary Sinise
.jpg/440px-Gary_Sinise_2011_(cropped).jpg)
Gary Sinise (2001)
Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson (2002)
Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein (2003)
Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman (2004)
Norbert Leo Butz

Norbert Leo Butz (2005)
Christine Ebersole

Christine Ebersole (2006)
Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber (2007)
Patti LuPone

Patti LuPone (2008)
Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Rush (2009)
Alfred Molina

Alfred Molina (2010)
Mark Rylance

Mark Rylance (2011)
Audra McDonald
.jpg/440px-Audra_McDonald_(1).jpg)
Audra McDonald (2012)
Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane (2013)
Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris (2014)
Chita Rivera

Chita Rivera (2015)
Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)
Ben Platt (2017)
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Primetime
Emmy Award

Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting
Actor

Actor in a Drama
Series
Dennis Weaver

Dennis Weaver (1959)
Roddy McDowall

Roddy McDowall (1961)
Albert Paulsen (1964)
James Daly (1966)
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach (1967)
Milburn Stone

Milburn Stone (1968)
James Brolin
.jpg/440px-James_Brolin_2013_(cropped).jpg)
James Brolin (1970)
David Burns (1971)
Jack Warden

Jack Warden (1972)
Scott Jacoby (1973)
Michael Moriarty (1974)
Will Geer

Will Geer (1975)
Anthony Zerbe

Anthony Zerbe (1976)
Gary Frank (1977)
Robert Vaughn

Robert Vaughn (1978)
Stuart Margolin (1979)
Stuart Margolin (1980)
Michael Conrad (1981)
Michael Conrad (1982)
James Coco

James Coco (1983)
Bruce Weitz

Bruce Weitz (1984)
Edward James Olmos
.jpg/440px-Edward_James_Olmos_at_Filly_Brown_Miami_premiere_(cropped).jpg)
Edward James Olmos (1985)
John Karlen (1986)
John Hillerman
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John Hillerman (1987)
Larry Drake

Larry Drake (1988)
Larry Drake

Larry Drake (1989)
Jimmy Smits

Jimmy Smits (1990)
Timothy Busfield (1991)
Richard Dysart
.jpg/400px-Richard_Dysart_(2092477928).jpg)
Richard Dysart (1992)
Chad Lowe (1993)
Fyvush Finkel

Fyvush Finkel (1994)
Ray Walston

Ray Walston (1995)
Ray Walston

Ray Walston (1996)
Héctor Elizondo

Héctor Elizondo (1997)
Gordon Clapp (1998)
Michael Badalucco (1999)
Richard Schiff

Richard Schiff (2000)
Bradley Whitford

Bradley Whitford (2001)
John Spencer (2002)
Joe Pantoliano
.jpg/440px-JoePantolianoFeb2009_(cropped).jpg)
Joe Pantoliano (2003)
Michael Imperioli

Michael Imperioli (2004)
William Shatner

William Shatner (2005)
Alan Alda
.jpg/440px-Alan_Alda_2014_(cropped).jpg)
Alan Alda (2006)
Terry O'Quinn
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Terry O'Quinn (2007)
Željko Ivanek (2008)
Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson (2009)
Aaron Paul
.jpg/440px-Aaron_Paul_Berlinale_2014_(cropped).jpg)
Aaron Paul (2010)
Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage (2011)
Aaron Paul
.jpg/440px-Aaron_Paul_Berlinale_2014_(cropped).jpg)
Aaron Paul (2012)
Bobby Cannavale

Bobby Cannavale (2013)
Aaron Paul
.jpg/440px-Aaron_Paul_Berlinale_2014_(cropped).jpg)
Aaron Paul (2014)
Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage (2015)
Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn (2016)
John Lithgow

John Lithgow (2017)
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Tony Award

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured
Actor

Actor in a Play
1949–1975
Arthur Kennedy

Arthur Kennedy (1949)
Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach (1951)
John Cromwell (1952)
John Williams (1953)
John Kerr (1954)
Francis L. Sullivan

Francis L. Sullivan (1955)
Ed Begley

Ed Begley (1956)
Frank Conroy (1957)
Henry Jones (1958)
Charlie Ruggles

Charlie Ruggles (1959)
Roddy McDowall

Roddy McDowall (1960)
Martin Gabel

Martin Gabel (1961)
Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau (1962)
Alan Arkin

Alan Arkin (1963)
Hume Cronyn

Hume Cronyn (1964)
Jack Albertson

Jack Albertson (1965)
Patrick Magee (1966)
Ian Holm

Ian Holm (1967)
James Patterson (1968)
Al Pacino

Al Pacino (1969)
Ken Howard

Ken Howard (1970)
Paul Sand (1971)
Vincent Gardenia

Vincent Gardenia (1972)
John Lithgow

John Lithgow (1973)
Ed Flanders

Ed Flanders (1974)
Frank Langella

Frank Langella (1975)
1976–2000
Edward Herrmann

Edward Herrmann (1976)
Jonathan Pryce

Jonathan Pryce (1977)
Lester Rawlins (1978)
Michael Gough (1979)
David Rounds (1980)
Brian Backer (1981)
Zakes Mokae (1982)
Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick (1983)
Joe Mantegna

Joe Mantegna (1984)
Barry Miller (1985)
John Mahoney

John Mahoney (1986)
John Randolph (1987)
B. D. Wong

B. D. Wong (1988)
Boyd Gaines

Boyd Gaines (1989)
Charles Durning

Charles Durning (1990)
Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey (1991)
Laurence Fishburne
_(cropped).jpg/440px-National_Memorial_Day_Concert_2017_(34117818524)_(cropped).jpg)
Laurence Fishburne (1992)
Stephen Spinella (1993)
Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright (1994)
John Glover (1995)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Ruben Santiago-Hudson (1996)
Owen Teale

Owen Teale (1997)
Tom Murphy (1998)
Frank Wood (1999)
Roy Dotrice

Roy Dotrice (2000)
2001–present
Robert Sean Leonard

Robert Sean Leonard (2001)
Frank Langella

Frank Langella (2002)
Denis O'Hare

Denis O'Hare (2003)
Brían F. O'Byrne (2004)
Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber (2005)
Ian McDiarmid

Ian McDiarmid (2006)
Billy Crudup

Billy Crudup (2007)
Jim Norton (2008)
Roger Robinson (2009)
Eddie Redmayne

Eddie Redmayne (2010)
John Benjamin Hickey

John Benjamin Hickey (2011)
Christian Borle
.jpg/440px-Christian_Borle_2014_(cropped).jpg)
Christian Borle (2012)
Courtney B. Vance

Courtney B. Vance (2013)
Mark Rylance

Mark Rylance (2014)
Richard McCabe (2015)
Reed Birney (2016)
Michael Aronov (2017)
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WorldCat Identities
VIAF: 17409246
LCCN: n81110577
ISNI: 0000 0001 2099 3976
GND: 130223948
SUDOC: 052737071
BNF: cb13900976v (data)
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NLA: 36271519
NKC: xx0062919
BNE: XX1435480
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