Actor Eli Wallach, star of ‘Good, Bad and the Ugly’ and ‘The Magnificent Seven’ dies at 98

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FILE - This April 27, 1972 file photo shows actor Eli Wallach, left, and his wife Anne Jackson from the Broadway comedy "Promenade All!" in New York. Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career, died Monday, June 23, 2014 of natural causes. He was 98. (AP Photo/Jerry Mosey, File)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career has died. He was 98.

The actor’s son, Peter Wallach, confirmed Tuesday that his father passed away Monday evening in New York from natural causes.

Wallach, who was still starring in films well into his 90s, may be best remembered for his role as Tuco, the conniving, quick-on-the-draw bandit, in the classic Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

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 for his supporting role in Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo” in 1951.

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