The movie begins with three bounty hunters preparing to ambush Wallach's character in an abandoned town, with Leone steadily ratcheting up the tension by using nothing more than the sound of the wind.

Stage and screen actor Eli Wallach dies at 98. Skip to main ... A lifelong theater actor and all but accidental movie and TV star, Wallach and his ... and McQueen’s final film The Hunter (1980).

Celebrating movie icons: Eli Wallach Wallach, who died in 2014, learned to ride horses as a young man. He later made a career playing villains in Westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Regardless of How Good or Bad the Movie, Eli Wallach Was the Guy You Remembered. By Bilge Ebiri. June 25, 2014 12:11 PM. Eli Wallach always stole the show. Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images.