Screen legend Eli Wallach dies at 98

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-on-the-draw bandit in the classic western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, has died.

He was 98.

Wallach and his wife, Anne Jackson, were a formidable duo on the stage, appearing in several plays dating back to the 1940s. He won a Tony award for his supporting role in Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo in 1951, was an original member of the Actors Studio, and was still starring in films well into his 90s.