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Actor Eli Wallach dies at 98

Actor Eli Wallach in October 2010 in New York. He grew up in the tough Red Hook section of Brooklyn with a desire to act.

Actor Eli Wallach in October 2010 in New York. He grew up in the tough Red Hook section of Brooklyn with a desire to act.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Eli Wallach a veteran stage, screen and television actor who was closely identified with Tennessee Williams’ plays on the New York stage but gained fame in Hollywood for a string of films in which he specialized in playing bandits, thieves, mafia dons and other criminals, has died. He was 98.

Eli Wallach: 1915-2014

Film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow, producer/director Francis Ford Coppola and actor Eli Wallach at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in February 2011. Wallach received an honorary Oscar.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Eli Wallach: 1915-2014

Eli Wallach arrives at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011. In a remarkably diverse career, the veteran New York Method actor appeared in the noir thriller “The Lineup,” the western “The Magnificent Seven” and the Tennessee Williams psychosexual melodrama “Baby Doll,” as well as the Sergio Leone spaghetti western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Eli Wallach: 1915-2014

Actor Eli Wallach, director Francis Ford Coppola and historian Kevin Brownlow pose with their awards at the second annual 2010 Governors Awards in the grand ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood on Nov. 13, 2010.   (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

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Eli Wallach: 1915-2014

Eli Wallach and his wife, Anne Jackson, join members of New York’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at an Oscar Night Party at the St. Regis Hotel in 2007.  (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)

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