The 1964 spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars turned Clint Eastwood into a star. He had a famous squint in his closeups, but he told Terry Gross in 1997, it wasn't necessarily character driven.

Eli Wallach, a celebrated stage and film actor who excelled at playing impulsive characters across the ethnic spectrum, memorably as Mexican bandits in the 1960s movie westerns “The Magnificent Seven” ...

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

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

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When he was well into his 80s, Eli Wallach told an interviewer that he feared directors would consider his age a handicap. He needn't have worried. At 94, the prolific ...

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