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Eli Herschel Wallach (; 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," states TCM, 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. 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 nomination. Among his other most famous roles are Calvera in ''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 in ''The Godfather Part III'', Cotton Weinberger in ''The Two Jakes'' (both 1990), and Arthur Abbott in ''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. ==Early life== 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,〔 with his family being the only Jews in an otherwise Italian American neighborhood.〔("Eli Wallach Knows His Lines" ) – Forward.com.〕 His parents owned Bertha's Candy Store. Wallach graduated in 1936 from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in history.〔("Alumni in the News: Eli Wallach to receive lifetime achievement award" ), ''Alumni and Friends'', Department of History, University of Texas, Austin.〕 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 () 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."〔''The Alcalde: Texas'', March 2000.〕 Two years later he received a master of arts degree in education from the City College of New York.〔("Marian Seldes, Eli Wallach to Receive CCNY Alumni Finley Award" ), Newswire, City College of New York, October 19, 2010.〕〔("Biography: Eli Wallach" ), ''The New York Times''.〕 He gained his first method acting experience at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where he studied under Sanford Meisner.〔("Eli Wallach, veteran actor, dead at 98" ), ''CBS News'', June 25, 2014.〕 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.〔Gordon, Mel. ''Stanislavsky in America: An Actor's Workbook'', Routledge (2010) p. 178.〕 Wallach's education was cut short when he was drafted into the United States Army in January 1941.〔 He served as staff sergeant in a military hospital in Hawaii and later sent to Officer Candidate School (OCS) in 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eli Wallach Biography )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eli Wallach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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