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The son of two Jewish Polish immigrants, Wallach grew up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Little Italy, although he spent four years away at the University of Texas. An alumnus of the Actors Studio Method school of acting, Wallach had a prestigious career on the stage, which he had a particular affinity for, although he had plenty of roles in film and television. He was best known to some for being in seven Western movies: ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'', ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', ''Film/AceHigh'', ''Film/MackennasGold'', ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'' and ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowAndTheBlack''.

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The son of two Jewish Polish immigrants, Wallach grew up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Little Italy, although he spent four years away at the University of Texas. An alumnus of the Actors Studio Method school of acting, Wallach had a prestigious career on the stage, which he had a particular affinity for, although he had plenty of roles in film and television. He was best known to some for being in seven Western movies: ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'', ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', ''Film/AceHigh'', ''Film/MackennasGold'', ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'' and ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowAndTheBlack''.
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* CelebrityResemblance: A woman once spotted him at a supermarket and mistook him for Creator/GeorgeCScott, E.G. Marshall or Martin Balsam.

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* CelebrityResemblance: A woman once spotted him at a supermarket and variously mistook him for Creator/GeorgeCScott, E.G. Marshall Creator/EGMarshall or Martin Balsam.Creator/MartinBalsam.
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* PlaysGreatEthnics: The child of two Polish Jews, but famous for playing Mexicans and Italians.
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A Jewish boy with Polish immigrant parents, Wallach grew up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Little Italy, although he spent four years away at the University of Texas. An alumnus of the Actors Studio Method school of acting, Wallach had a prestigious career on the stage, which he had a particular affinity for, although he had plenty of roles in film and television. He was best known to some for being in seven Western movies: ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'', ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', ''Film/AceHigh'', ''Film/MackennasGold'', ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'' and ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowAndTheBlack''.

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A The son of two Jewish boy with Polish immigrant parents, immigrants, Wallach grew up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Little Italy, although he spent four years away at the University of Texas. An alumnus of the Actors Studio Method school of acting, Wallach had a prestigious career on the stage, which he had a particular affinity for, although he had plenty of roles in film and television. He was best known to some for being in seven Western movies: ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'', ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', ''Film/AceHigh'', ''Film/MackennasGold'', ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'' and ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowAndTheBlack''.

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* ActualPacifist: He hated guns and had no use for them.

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* ActualPacifist: He hated guns and had no use for them. While he did serve in WWII, it was a medic, not a soldier.



* BigApplesauce: He was a born and bred New Yorker and lived in the city all his life.



* TheTeetotaler: Downplayed. He did get wasted a couple of times but often drank in moderation.

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* TheTeetotaler: Downplayed. He did get wasted a couple of times but often drank in moderation.moderation, to the point that he needed help on how to act drunk when necessary.

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A Jewish boy with Polish immigrant parents, Wallach grew up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Little Italy, although he spent four years away at the University of Texas. An alumnus of the Actors Studio Method school of acting, Wallach had a prestigious career on the stage, which he had a particular affinity for, although he had plenty of roles in film and television. He was best known to some for being in seven Western movies: ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'', ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', ''Film/AceHigh'', ''Film/MackennasGold'', ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'' and ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack''.

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A Jewish boy with Polish immigrant parents, Wallach grew up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Little Italy, although he spent four years away at the University of Texas. An alumnus of the Actors Studio Method school of acting, Wallach had a prestigious career on the stage, which he had a particular affinity for, although he had plenty of roles in film and television. He was best known to some for being in seven Western movies: ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'', ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', ''Film/AceHigh'', ''Film/MackennasGold'', ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'' and ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack''.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: His four Spaghetti Western Characters fit this: [[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly Tuco]] is Choleric, [[Film/AceHigh Cacopoulos]] is Phlegmatic, [[Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek Max]] is Sanguine and [[Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack Sheriff Gideon]] is Melancholic.

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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: His four Spaghetti Western Characters fit this: [[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly Tuco]] is Choleric, [[Film/AceHigh Cacopoulos]] is Phlegmatic, [[Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek Max]] is Sanguine and [[Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack [[Film/TheWhiteTheYellowAndTheBlack Sheriff Gideon]] is Melancholic.



* ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack'' - Sheriff Edward "Black Jack" Gideon

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* ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack'' ''Film/AColdNightsDeath'' - Frank Enari
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* AdultFear
** He was the subject of this. He witnessed a Mafia murder when he was a child. He dove under the counter of the family store before the gangster could see him, and his father rushed in and pulled him to the back of the store, safe out of sight.
** He also enforced this on himself during the filming of ''Film/BabyDoll''. When he had to look enraged about a cotton gin burning down, he imagined instead that a friend had burned down his house with his wife and children inside. This gave him the look that Creator/EliaKazan wanted.


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* EnforcedMethodActing: During the filming of ''Film/BabyDoll''. When he had to look enraged about a cotton gin burning down, he imagined instead that a friend had burned down his house with his wife and children inside. This gave him the look that Creator/EliaKazan wanted.
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* CoolOldGuy: His later roles had him often play characters like this and he was also one in real life, still acting well into his nineties and staying as sharp as ever.


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* NiceJewishBoy: He was one in real life.
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He was also the third Mr. Freeze in the 1960s ''Series/Batman1966'' series, and received the most fan mail out of all his characters for it.

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He was also the third Mr. Freeze in the 1960s ''Series/Batman1966'' ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' series, and received the most fan mail out of all his characters for it.
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A Jewish boy with Polish immigrant parents, he grew up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Little Italy, although he spent four years away at the University of Texas. An alumnus of the Actor's Studio Method school of acting, Wallach had a prestigious career on the stage, which he had a particular affinity for, although he had plenty of roles in film and television. He was best known to some for being in seven Western movies: ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'', ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', ''Film/AceHigh'', ''Film/MackennasGold'', ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'' and ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack''.

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A Jewish boy with Polish immigrant parents, he Wallach grew up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's Little Italy, although he spent four years away at the University of Texas. An alumnus of the Actor's Actors Studio Method school of acting, Wallach had a prestigious career on the stage, which he had a particular affinity for, although he had plenty of roles in film and television. He was best known to some for being in seven Western movies: ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'', ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', ''Film/AceHigh'', ''Film/MackennasGold'', ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'' and ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack''.
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* ButtMonkey: During the making of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', he was unluckier than anyone on set. He rode a mile on a horse with his hands tied together, got an accidental black eye from Mario Brega during rehearsal, and almost drank acid that he mistook for lemonade.

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* ButtMonkey: During the making of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', he was unluckier than anyone on set. He rode a mile on a horse with his hands tied together, got an accidental black eye from Mario Brega during rehearsal, and almost drank acid that he mistook for lemonade. Considering his character, it makes sense.
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* DoesNotLikeGuns: He had no use for them.

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* DoesNotLikeGuns: He had no use for them.them because he was a pacifist.
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* FakeNationality: Many of his roles fell into this category.
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* ''Film/CircleOfIron'' - Man in oil
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** Not to mention some unplanned stunts (more commonly called "accidents"). To wit:
*** Drank acid. In order to make the gold bags easier to rip, they were treated with acid to weaken the fabric. Since acid isn't something you want to carry in your hands, someone had appropriated a lemon soda bottle to carry it. Wallach didn't get the memo and took a swig. Reports differ on how much Wallach drank, but he ended up pounding a lot of milk to try and neutralize the acid, and had to film a few scenes with a pretty sore mouth.
*** During a hanging scene, someone fired a gun, causing the horse he was on to spook and bolt. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a problem, except Wallach's hands were still tied - behind his back. He stayed on that horse for over a mile.
*** Nearly lost his head. For real. During a stunt involving laying very near a set of railroad tracks, everything was accounted for... except the locomotive's low-hanging step rails. Said iron rails came within a whisker of relieving Wallach of a need to ever see a barber again.
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He was also the third Mr. Freeze in the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series, and received the most fan mail out of all his characters for it.

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He was also the third Mr. Freeze in the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}}'' ''Series/Batman1966'' series, and received the most fan mail out of all his characters for it.



* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Gender-flipped; he was the Energetic Guy to Anne Jackson's Savvy Girl. When he learned that Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was getting $20 million for playing Mr. Freeze in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', while he got only $350 for playing the same role in ''Series/{{Batman}}'', he complained furiously to Anne about it. Her only response: "Lift weights."

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* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Gender-flipped; he was the Energetic Guy to Anne Jackson's Savvy Girl. When he learned that Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was getting $20 million for playing Mr. Freeze in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', while he got only $350 for playing the same role in ''Series/{{Batman}}'', ''Series/Batman1966'', he complained furiously to Anne about it. Her only response: "Lift weights."
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After he met his future wife Anne Jackson in 1946, the two became known as a double act on Broadway, appearing in many plays together such as ''Theater/ThisPropertyIsCondemned'', ''Theater/TheRoseTattoo'', ''Theatre/{{Rhinoceros}}'', ''Theatre/{{Luv}}'', ''Theater/{{Lullaby}}'', ''Theater/TheTypists'' and ''Theater/TheTiger''. He and Jackson remained happily married until his passing from natural causes in 2014.

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After he met his future wife Anne Jackson in 1946, the two became known as a double act on Broadway, appearing in many plays together such as ''Theater/ThisPropertyIsCondemned'', ''Theater/TheRoseTattoo'', ''Theatre/ThisPropertyIsCondemned'', ''Theatre/TheRoseTattoo'', ''Theatre/{{Rhinoceros}}'', ''Theatre/{{Luv}}'', ''Theater/{{Lullaby}}'', ''Theater/TheTypists'' ''Theatre/{{Lullaby}}'', ''Theatre/TheTeahouseOfTheAugustMoon'', ''Theatre/TheTypists'' and ''Theater/TheTiger''.''Theatre/TheTiger''. He and Jackson remained happily married until his passing from natural causes in 2014.
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* ''Film/MacKennasGold'' - Ben Baker

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* ''Film/MacKennasGold'' ''Film/MackennasGold'' - Ben Baker
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Though he had won Tonys and Emmys throughout his life, he was never nominated for any Academy Awards.

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Though he had won Tonys and Emmys throughout his life, career, he was never nominated for any Academy Awards.
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He once shared a bed with ''Creator/ClintEastwood'' before making ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''. When he told the story to Anne Jackson, she quipped, "Now you can brag that you're the only man to have slept with Clint Eastwood".

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He once shared a bed with ''Creator/ClintEastwood'' Creator/ClintEastwood before making ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''. When he told the story to Anne Jackson, she quipped, "Now you can brag that you're the only man to have slept with Clint Eastwood".
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* ''Film/TheGhostWriter'' - The Old Man

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* ''Film/TheGhostWriter'' - Old Man at Martha's Vineyard (cameo)

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* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' - Salvatore Gambini (Episode: A Very Good Year For Murder)

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* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' - Salvatore Gambini (Episode: A "A Very Good Year For Murder)for Murder")



* ''Film/WallStreetMoneyNeverSleeps'' - Julie Steinhardt

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* ''Film/{{Girlfriends}}'' - Rabbi Gold
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* ''Film/TheBrain'' - Frankie Scannapieco

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* ''Film/TheBrain'' ''Film/TheBrain1969'' - Frankie Scannapieco
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-->"I always end up playing the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly."
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* ''Film/Mistress'' - George Lieberhof

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