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Eli Wallach

American actor
Also known as: Eli Herschel Wallach
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Melissa Albert was a research editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. Her first novel, The Hazel Wood (2018), was a New York Times bestseller.
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Eli Wallach (born December 7, 1915, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died June 24, 2014, New York City) was an American character actor of great versatility who was perhaps best known for his film appearances in westerns in the 1960s. Wallach grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household in Brooklyn, where his father owned a candy store. He attended the University of Texas in Austin, and while there he performed onstage and learned to ride horses, a talent...

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