Eli Wallach dies

Eli Wallach, 98, husband of actress Anne

Eli Wallach

Jackson, died Tuesday in Manhattan. They met at a 1946 stage production of “This Property Is Condemned.”

He was never nominated for an Oscar, but he was Clark Gable’s sidekick in “The Misfits,” a Mafia don in “The Godfather: Part III” and a Mexican bandit in “The Magnificent Seven.” He got an honorary Oscar in 2010, at the age of 94. It’s a thing they do when they think long-time actors who were bypassed previously are near death’s door.

Eli’s first movie was 1956’s “Baby Doll,” with Carroll Baker and Karl Malden.

He grew up as a Jew in a predominantly Italian Brooklyn neighbor and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School.

To read his entire New York Times obituary tribute, click on http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/movies/eli-wallach-multifaceted-actor-dies-at-98.html?_r=1