One of the most respected actors in American performance, Eli Wallach’s film career never quite matched his long list of stage credits in terms of quality, but he had nevertheless contributed some memorable characters to film. Moviegoers knew him best for a pair of similar characters – the cruel Mexican bandit Calvera, whose raids on a poor village prompt the formation of “The Magnificent Seven” (1960), and as the scheming, scene-stealing Tuco (a.k.a. “The Ugly”) in Sergio Leone’s epic Italian Western adventure “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” (1967). But Wallach’s film career stretched back a
