Biografia

Was almost killed during the train scene in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966). He was asked by Sergio Leone to do the scene again, and he then replied: "I'll never do that again!".

Had appeared with Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Steve McQueen in their final completed films: Gli spostati (1961) (for both Monroe and Gable) and Il cacciatore di taglie (1980) respectively.

After failing the New York teachers' exam, Wallach got a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse and spent two years there before graduating in 1940. Among his classmates were Gregory Peck, Lorne Greene, and Tony Randall.

He served for five years in the Army's Medical Administrative Corps during World War II, eventually attaining the rank of captain.

In his later years, he was blind in the left eye due to a stroke.

The subtitle [of his memoir "The Good, the Bad and Me"] is "In My Anecdotage". Bill Clinton asked me if he could use it, and I said, "You sold two million copies of your book. How dare you try to steal my subtitle!".

I was at the premiere of L'amore non va in vacanza (2006), a movie I did with Kate Winslet. Surrounded by all these beautiful young women. And after they left, [wife Anne Jackson] comes up and says to me, "Honestly, I don't know what they see in you.".

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.